Personal information | |||
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Full name | Carlos Jorge Marques Caldas Xavier | ||
Date of birth | 26 January 1962 | ||
Place of birth | Lourenço Marques, Mozambique | ||
Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Youth career | |||
1976–1978 | Casa Pia | ||
1978–1980 | Sporting CP | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1980–1991 | Sporting CP | 212 | (8) |
1986–1987 | → Académica (loan) | 26 | (1) |
1991–1994 | Real Sociedad | 96 | (13) |
1994–1996 | Sporting CP | 36 | (6) |
Total | 370 | (28) | |
International career | |||
1980 | Portugal U18 | 6 | (0) |
1981–1985 | Portugal U21 | 16 | (1) |
1981–1993 | Portugal | 10 | (0) |
Managerial career | |||
2004–2005 | Estoril (assistant) | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Carlos Jorge Marques Caldas Xavier (born 26 January 1962) is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a midfielder.
Born in Lourenço Marques, Portuguese Mozambique, Xavier began his professional career with Lisbon-based Sporting CP, already being a regular first-team fixture at age 19. He played 23 Primeira Liga games as the Lions won the title in the 1981–82 season, which would be the last until 2000. [1]
In 1991, after more than 250 competitive appearances, Xavier moved, alongside compatriot and teammate Oceano, to Spain's Real Sociedad, where the pair was equally influential, having been reunited with former Sporting boss John Toshack at the La Liga side. [2] [3]
Both Xavier and Oceano returned to Sporting in the summer of 1994, and the former played two more years before retiring at the age of 34. In the 2004–05 campaign he had a brief spell at coaching, assisting at another club from the capital and the top division, G.D. Estoril Praia. [4]
Xavier won ten caps for Portugal, [5] then switched successfully to its beach soccer team. [6]
Xavier's twin brother, Pedro, was also a footballer. A forward, he represented several teams in the country (coinciding with Carlos at Académica de Coimbra) in an 18-year professional career. [7]
Xavier lived in Quinta da Beloura, a gated community in Sintra on the Portuguese Riviera. [4] On 8 September 2023, while speaking to Sporting TV, he referred to FC Porto Iranian forward Mehdi Taremi as "a Muslim who, when he came to Portugal, didn’t know how to swim and now he knows how to dive"; as a result, the club was fined €15,300 by the Portuguese Football Federation. [8]
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