Cédric Soares
Cédric playing for Portugal in 2015
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| Full name | Cédric Ricardo Alves Soares | ||||||||
| Date of birth | 31 August 1991 | ||||||||
| Place of birth | Singen, Germany | ||||||||
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||
| Playing position | Right-back | ||||||||
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Current team
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Southampton | ||||||||
| Number | 2 | ||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||
| 1999–2010 | Sporting CP | ||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||
| 2010–2015 | Sporting CP | 67 | (2) | ||||||
| 2011–2012 | → Académica (loan) | 24 | (0) | ||||||
| 2013 | Sporting B | 2 | (0) | ||||||
| 2015– | Southampton | 42 | (0) | ||||||
| National team‡ | |||||||||
| 2006–2007 | Portugal U16 | 11 | (1) | ||||||
| 2007–2008 | Portugal U17 | 11 | (0) | ||||||
| 2009 | Portugal U18 | 5 | (0) | ||||||
| 2009–2010 | Portugal U19 | 17 | (0) | ||||||
| 2010–2011 | Portugal U20 | 18 | (0) | ||||||
| 2011–2012 | Portugal U21 | 10 | (0) | ||||||
| 2014– | Portugal | 17 | (0) | ||||||
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 21:02, 28 February 2017 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 25 March 2017 |
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Cédric Ricardo Alves Soares, CvIH, ComM (born 31 August 1991), known simply as Cédric (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈsɛdɾik]), is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Premier League club Southampton and the Portugal national team.
His career started with Sporting, going on to appear in 94 competitive games over the course of four Primeira Liga seasons and scoring two goals. He signed for Southampton in 2015.
Having earned 72 caps across all youth levels, Cédric made his senior debut for Portugal in 2014. He appeared for the country at Euro 2016, winning the tournament.
Born in Singen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany to Portuguese immigrants, Cédric returned to his parents' country at the age of two. He joined Sporting Clube de Portugal's youth system in 1999, aged eight.
Cédric made his Primeira Liga debut with the first team on 8 May 2011, starting in a 0–1 home loss against Vitória de Setúbal. For 2011–12 he, alongside teammate Adrien Silva, was loaned to fellow top division club Académica de Coimbra, where he played regularly and won that season's Taça de Portugal, playing the full 90 minutes in the 1–0 triumph against precisely Sporting.
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