Carlos Carneiro (footballer)

{{short description|Portuguese footballer and sporting director}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Carlos Carneiro

| image =

| fullname = Carlos Paulo Martins Carneiro

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1975|12|27|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Paços de Ferreira, Portugal

| height = {{convert|1.85|m|ftin|0|abbr=on}}

| position = Striker

| currentclub =

| clubnumber =

| youthyears1 = 1988–1994

| youthclubs1 = Paços Ferreira

| years1 = 1994–1997

| years2 = 1994–1995

| years3 = 1998–1999

| years4 = 1999–2003

| years5 = 2003–2004

| years6 = 2005–2006

| years7 = 2006–2007

| years8 = 2007

| years9 = 2008–2009

| years10 = 2009

| years11 = 2010

| clubs1 = Paços Ferreira

| clubs2 = → Lousada (loan)

| clubs3 = Covilhã

| clubs4 = Paços Ferreira

| clubs5 = Vitória Guimarães

| clubs6 = Gil Vicente

| clubs7 = Panionios

| clubs8 = Walsall

| clubs9 = Paços Ferreira

| clubs10 = Vizela

| clubs11 = Penafiel

| caps1 = 64

| caps2 = 20

| caps3 = 48

| caps4 = 107

| caps5 = 22

| caps6 = 48

| caps7 = 11

| caps8 = 3

| caps9 = 24

| caps10 = 9

| caps11 = 11

| totalcaps = 367

| goals1 = 8

| goals2 = 2

| goals3 = 17

| goals4 = 15

| goals5 = 0

| goals6 = 11

| goals7 = 1

| goals8 = 0

| goals9 = 2

| goals10 = 2

| goals11 = 1

| totalgoals = 59

| nationalyears1 =

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Carlos Paulo Martins Carneiro (born 27 December 1975) is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as a striker.

He played mostly for Paços de Ferreira during his 16-year senior career, amassing Primeira Liga totals of 172 matches and 24 goals over eight seasons and also representing in competition Vitória de Guimarães and Gil Vicente.

Playing career

During his early career, Paços de Ferreira-born Carneiro played for F.C. Paços de Ferreira (he would represent his boyhood club on three separate stints){{cite news|url=https://www.record.pt/futebol/futebol-nacional/liga-bwin/p--ferreira/detalhe/puxao-de-orelhas-fez-bem|title=Puxão de orelhas fez bem|trans-title=Earful was a good thing|newspaper=Record|language=Portuguese|date=19 October 2002|accessdate=26 July 2022}} and S.C. Covilhã, the latter in the third division. In summer 2003, following his second spell at Paços, he signed with Vitória de Guimarães, moving in January 2005 to fellow Primeira Liga team Gil Vicente FC.{{cite news|url=http://www.record.pt/futebol/futebol-nacional/detalhe/gil-vicente-penafiel-0-1-vendaval-minhoto-nao-teve-proveito.html|title=Gil Vicente-Penafiel, 0–1: Vendaval minhoto não teve proveito|trans-title=Gil Vicente-Penafiel, 0–1: No prize for minhoto whirlwind|newspaper=Record|language=Portuguese|date=17 January 2005|accessdate=24 June 2017}}

Carneiro spent the 2006–07 season in Greece with Panionios FC, and began the following in England at Football League One side Walsall, signing on 17 July 2007 subject to international clearance.{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/w/walsall/6902508.stm|title=Saddlers sign Portuguese striker|publisher=BBC Sport|date=17 July 2007|accessdate=17 July 2007}} However, he had his contract terminated at the latter on 5 November, rejoining his first professional club in January 2008.{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/w/walsall/7079557.stm|title=Carneiro decides to leave Walsall|publisher=BBC Sport|date=5 November 2007|accessdate=5 November 2007}}

After an additional one and a half years at Paços, being irregularly used and almost always as a late substitute, the 33-year-old Carneiro left for F.C. Vizela in the third tier. In January 2010, he joined F.C. Penafiel of the second.{{cite web|url=https://desporto.sapo.pt/futebol/segunda-liga/artigos/carlos-carneiro-no-penafiel|title=Carlos Carneiro no Penafiel|trans-title=Carlos Carneiro to Penafiel|publisher=SAPO|language=Portuguese|date=7 January 2010|accessdate=26 July 2022}}

Management career

In May 2010, after helping his last team to easily retain their status, Carneiro retired from football and rejoined main club Paços Ferreira as its director of football.{{cite news|url=http://www.record.xl.pt/Futebol/Nacional/1a_liga/pacos_ferreira/interior.aspx?content_id=441867|title=Carneiro vai decidir|trans-title=Carneiro to decide|newspaper=Record|first=José|last=Santos|language=Portuguese|date=18 May 2010|accessdate=29 May 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606204421/http://www.record.xl.pt/Futebol/Nacional/1a_liga/pacos_ferreira/interior.aspx?content_id=441867|archivedate=6 June 2014}}{{cite news|url=http://www.record.xl.pt/Futebol/Nacional/1a_liga/pacos_ferreira/interior.aspx?content_id=710634|title=Khalil Chemmam virá em dezembro|trans-title=Khalil Chemmam will come in December|newspaper=Record|language=Portuguese|date=4 August 2011|accessdate=29 May 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606213214/http://www.record.xl.pt/Futebol/Nacional/1a_liga/pacos_ferreira/interior.aspx?content_id=710634|archivedate=6 June 2014}}{{cite news|url=http://www.record.xl.pt/Futebol/Nacional/1a_liga/pacos_ferreira/interior.aspx?content_id=848149|title=Carlos Carneiro: "Mal seria se estivéssemos satisfeitos"|trans-title=Carlos Carneiro: "It would be a mistake to be content"|newspaper=Record|language=Portuguese|date=9 October 2013|accessdate=29 May 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606213850/http://www.record.xl.pt/Futebol/Nacional/1a_liga/pacos_ferreira/interior.aspx?content_id=848149|archivedate=6 June 2014}} Six years later, in the same capacity, he signed with C.D. Tondela.{{cite web|url=https://rr.sapo.pt/noticia/54843/carlos_carneiro_assume_funcoes_no_tondela|title=Carlos Carneiro assume funções no Tondela|trans-title=Carlos Carneiro takes over at Tondela|publisher=Rádio Renascença|language=Portuguese|date=23 May 2016|accessdate=24 June 2017}}{{cite web|url=https://www.rtp.pt/noticias/1a-liga/vukcevic-punido-com-tres-jogos-de-castigo_d981480|title=Vukcevic punido com três jogos de castigo|trans-title=Vukcevic handed three-game ban|publisher=Rádio e Televisão de Portugal|first=Mário|last=Aleixo|language=Portuguese|date=8 February 2017|accessdate=24 June 2017}}

On 20 May 2019, Carneiro returned to Paços still as a sporting director.{{cite web|url=https://maisfutebol.iol.pt/liga/pacos-ferreira/p-ferreira-carlos-carneiro-e-o-novo-diretor-desportivo|title=P. Ferreira: Carlos Carneiro é o novo diretor-desportivo|trans-title=P. Ferreira: Carlos Carneiro is the new sporting director|publisher=Mais Futebol|first1=Sérgio|last1=Pires|first2=Luís Pedro|last2=Ferreira|language=Portuguese|date=20 May 2019|accessdate=13 November 2019}}