Bruno Alves
Alves playing for Fenerbahçe in 2014
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| Full name | Bruno Eduardo Regufe Alves | |||||||||||
| Date of birth | 27 November 1981 | |||||||||||
| Place of birth | Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.89 m (6 ft 2 1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||
| Playing position | Centre back | |||||||||||
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Current team
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Cagliari | |||||||||||
| Number | 2 | |||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||
| 1992–1999 | Varzim | |||||||||||
| 1999–2000 | Porto | |||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||
| 2000–2005 | Porto B | 57 | (8) | |||||||||
| 2002–2010 | Porto | 119 | (14) | |||||||||
| 2002–2003 | → Farense (loan) | 46 | (3) | |||||||||
| 2003–2004 | → Vitória Guimarães (loan) | 25 | (1) | |||||||||
| 2004–2005 | → AEK Athens (loan) | 27 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2010–2013 | Zenit Saint Petersburg | 72 | (1) | |||||||||
| 2013–2016 | Fenerbahçe | 75 | (3) | |||||||||
| 2016– | Cagliari | 20 | (1) | |||||||||
| National team‡ | ||||||||||||
| 2001–2002 | Portugal U20 | 10 | (1) | |||||||||
| 2002–2004 | Portugal U21 | 19 | (2) | |||||||||
| 2004 | Portugal B | 1 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2007– | Portugal | 88 | (11) | |||||||||
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Honours
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 22 January 2017. |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 22 January 2017.
Bruno Eduardo Regufe Alves (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈbɾunu ˈaɫvɨʃ]; born 27 November 1981) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a central defender for Italian club Cagliari Calcio and the Portugal national team.
He spent most of his professional career at Porto, winning a total of nine titles, seven as first-choice, and appearing in 171 official games. He also won trophies in Russia with Zenit St. Petersburg, and in Turkey with Fenerbahçe.
A Portuguese international since 2007, Alves represented the country in two World Cups and three European Championships, winning the 2016 edition of the latter tournament.
Alves was born in Póvoa de Varzim, and started playing football for local Varzim SC, joining the youth ranks of FC Porto at the age of 17. After three consecutive loans, two in Portugal and another in the Superleague Greece with AEK Athens FC, he returned to the latter in the 2005–06 season, extending his contract until 2010 and battling for a first-team spot with Ricardo Costa and João Paulo: he played in seven league games for the eventual Primeira Liga champions, but was infamously sent off on 15 October 2005 in the 0–2 home loss against S.L. Benfica, after headbutting Nuno Gomes.
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