Diego Alves

Diego Alves
Alves 2014 in the national team
Personnel
Surname	Diego Alves Carreira
birthday	June 24, 1985
place of birth	Rio de Janeiro ,  Brazil
size	185 cm
position	goalkeeper
Juniors
Years	station
2002-2003	Atlético Mineiro
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2004-2007	Atlético Mineiro	38 (0)
2007-2011	UD Almería	124 (0)
2011-2017	Valencia CF	146 (0)
2017–	Flamengo Rio de Janeiro	37 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2011–	Brazil	10 (0)
1 Only league games are given. As of September 13, 2018 2 As of June 13, 2017

Diego Alves Carreira (born June 24, 1985 in Rio de Janeiro ) is a Brazilian soccer goalkeeper who plays in the Brazilian first division for Flamengo Rio de Janeiro .

Career

society

Diego Alves started his career as a professional footballer in 2004 with his youth club Atlético Mineiro . At the age of 19 he already made his debut in the goal of the first division club. After three seasons in which he could indicate his talent in Brazil, Diego Alves was signed by the Spanish first division promoted UD Almería .

Originally, Diego Alves was only supposed to act as a substitute goalkeeper behind David Cobeño , who was on loan from Sevilla FC , but since he kept making headlines with gross mistakes, the young Brazilian got the chance to prove his skills in the Primera División and did an excellent job as the first Brazilian goalkeeper in Spanish professional football.

For the 2011/12 season, Diego Alves moved to Valencia CF , where he signed a one-year contract.

In 2017 he moved to Flamengo Rio de Janeiro . There he made his debut in a 1-1 draw against Corinthians SP on July 30, 2017. With the club he won on November 23, 2019 2019 the Copa Libertadores . One day later, the preliminary decision in favor of Flamengo was made in the 2019 Brazilian championship and Diego Alves was also able to celebrate this title.

National team

For the 2008 Summer Olympics , Alves was appointed to the squad of a Brazilian national team for the first time. After missing the Copa América 2015 due to a knee injury, he took part in the Copa América Centenario 2016 with the Brazilian national soccer team, but remained without a mission.

successes

Flamengo

• Taça Guanabara : 2018, 2020
• Taça Rio : 2019
• National Championship of Rio de Janeiro : 2019, 2020
• Copa Libertadores : 2019
• Brazilian champion : 2019
• Supercopa do Brasil : 2020
• Recopa Sudamericana : 2020

Awards

• Bola de Prata : 2019

Web links

Commons : Diego Alves  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Player profile at elmundo (es)
• Diego Alves in the database of weltfussball.de
• Diego Alves in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bola de Prata , report on gazetadopovo.com.br of December 9, 2019, page in portugal, accessed on December 11, 2019