Fábio Coentrão
Coentrão with Real Madrid in 2012
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| Full name | Fábio Alexandre da Silva Coentrão | |||||||||||
| Date of birth | 11 March 1988 | |||||||||||
| Place of birth | Vila do Conde, Portugal | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||
| Playing position | Left back | |||||||||||
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Current team
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Real Madrid | |||||||||||
| Number | 15 | |||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||
| 1999–2006 | Rio Ave | |||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||
| 2005–2007 | Rio Ave | 29 | (5) | |||||||||
| 2007–2011 | Benfica | 52 | (2) | |||||||||
| 2008 | → Nacional (loan) | 16 | (4) | |||||||||
| 2008 | → Zaragoza (loan) | 1 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2009 | → Rio Ave (loan) | 16 | (3) | |||||||||
| 2011– | Real Madrid | 56 | (1) | |||||||||
| 2015–2016 | → Monaco (loan) | 15 | (3) | |||||||||
| National team‡ | ||||||||||||
| 2005 | Portugal U18 | 1 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2006–2007 | Portugal U19 | 10 | (5) | |||||||||
| 2007 | Portugal U20 | 7 | (4) | |||||||||
| 2009 | Portugal U21 | 7 | (6) | |||||||||
| 2010 | Portugal U23 | 1 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2009– | Portugal | 51 | (5) | |||||||||
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 13:57, 7 January 2017 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 8 October 2015 |
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Fábio Alexandre da Silva Coentrão (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈfabju kwẽˈtɾɐ̃w̃]; born 11 March 1988) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for Spanish club Real Madrid and the Portugal national team. Mainly a left back he can also operate as a left winger, and occasionally as a defensive midfielder.
After starting playing professionally with Rio Ave, he signed for Benfica at 19, going on to be loaned several times before becoming an important member of the first team, as a left-back. In 2011, he joined Real Madrid.
A Portuguese international since 2009, Coentrão represented the nation in two World Cups and one European Championship.
Born in Vila do Conde, Coentrão joined hometown's Rio Ave F.C. in 2004 at the age of 16, playing three Primeira Liga games in the following season for a northern side that would be relegated. In 2006–07 he established himself as first-choice, as Rio Ave barely missed promotion back and had a good run in the Taça de Portugal, ended by Sporting Clube de Portugal with a 2–1 win in Lisbon, with him scoring his team's goal from 30 metres; whilst playing for the club, he earned the nickname "Figo das Caxinas."
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