Carlos Vinícius - only been a CF for 3 years!
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Carlos
Carlos Vinicius Alves Morais
Position: FW
Born: March 25, 1995
Citizenship: Brazil br
Club: benfia
Well, he was a centre-back, then he moved to midfield and finally up to being a striker just 3 years ago.
Yep that's right folks, he has only been a striker for 3 years and has only had one season in
At 14, he started with Brazilian club Goiás (10th in Série A last season) as a central defender in 2009.
A bit of background to Brazilian football for you from Wikipedia.
National Championships - Level 1 - Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (20 clubs) Bottom 4 teams relegated
National Championships - Level 2 - Campeonato Brasileiro Série B (20 clubs) Top 4 teams promoted, bottom 4 teams relegated
National Championships - Level 3 - Campeonato Brasileiro Série C (20 clubs divided in 2 groups of 10) Top 2 teams of Second stage groups promoted, bottom 2 teams of each group relegated
National Championships - Level 4 - Campeonato Brasileiro Série D (68 clubs) Preliminary round with 8 clubs, then 64 clubs divided in 8 groups of 8
Semi-finalists promoted - No relegation
Are you following all this, complicated, below this are the State Championships.
Don't say I don't educate you, mind you I did that to teach myself.
Carlos Vinícius (remember him) joined Santos (currently Série A) in 2011 being loaned out to Desportivo Brazil (currently Campeonato Paulista Série A3, 3rd tier São Paulo state football league).
He was released in 2014 and joined Palmeiras (currently Campeonato Paulista, São Paulo's state premier league and Brasileirão Série A, the top tier of the Brazilian football league system).
He moved to Caldense (Série D, 4th tier of the Brazilian football league system and the Campeonato Mineiro, the top tier of the Minas Gerais state football league) in 2016 making his debut as a defensive midfielder.
In May 2017, Carlos Vinícius joined Grêmio Anápolis (Goiano state, 1 Divisão) for whom he played twice, once as an attacking-midfielder and once as an attacker in a friendly scoring 2 goals.
He was spotted by scouts from Portugal, went to Real FC (LigaPro - Portuguese 2nd division) on a one-year loan deal and scored on his debut.
He scored a hat-trick on his LigaPro debut and ended the season with 20 goals and 5 assists in 38 games.
In January 2018 he signed for Napoli for around €4 million, scoring in his pre-season friendly debut.
He then got loaned out (one-year) to Rio Ave in the Portuguese top flight and scored 14 goals in 20 matches.
Monaco was the next loan spell (6-months), but was mainly used as a sub (3 starts) scoring 2 goals and had 2 assists in 16 games (511 minutes, equivalent to 5.6 full games).
Benfica bought him in July 2019 for €17m with a release clause of €100m.
He scored on his debut again and has now scored 29 goals with 1 assists in 49 games for them.
That folks is your potted history.
He first game as a striker was in 2017.
In total 60 goals in 123 games with 22 assists, oh and 18 yellow cards.
As a centre-forward, he has played 101 games, scored 50 goals and had 21 assists, that's 71 direct involvements in a goal in 101 games.
In the Portuguese top flight he has played 47 games (2,942 minutes, equivalent to 32.68 full games) scoring 26 goals with 9 assists.
A goal every 113.15 minutes, a goal or assist every 84.06 minutes.
A look at last season
26/66 Shots on Target (42.45%)
Shots 10th
Shots on Target 9th
Goals Per Shot 1st
Goals Per Shot on Target 2nd
2 out of 2 penalty kicks
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