Bock (footballer)

Fernando Jorge Tavares de Oliveira (born 19 September 1975), commonly known as Bock, is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a striker.

Bock

Personal information
Full name	Fernando Jorge Tavares de Oliveira
Date of birth	19 September 1975
Place of birth	Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Striker
Youth career
1985–1987	Passarinhos da Ribeira
1987–1994	Porto
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1994–1995	Maia	10	(1)
1995–1996	Amarante	32	(17)
1996–1997	Lixa	26	(6)
1997–2000	Freamunde	74	(45)
2000	Trofense	16	(11)
2000	Marco	7	(0)
2001	Ermesinde	22	(10)
2001–2002	Gondomar	36	(18)
2002–2003	Leixões	25	(9)
2003–2005	Freamunde	70	(54)
2005–2006	Vizela	37	(20)
2007–2013	Freamunde	194	(53)
2013–2014	Ribeirão	7	(1)
2014–2015	Rebordosa	44	(8)
2015–2016	Lixa	35	(11)
Total		635	(264)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

He never played in the Primeira Liga in his professional career, which spanned nearly two decades, but appeared in 234 matches in the second division while scoring 71 goals, mostly with Freamunde.[1]

Football career

Born in Vila Nova de Gaia, Porto District, Bock joined FC Porto's youth ranks at the age of 12 and, even though he excelled at goalscoring during his formative years,[1] never received a first-team opportunity,[2] being released in 1994 and taking his game to the third division, where he had one-season spells with F.C. Maia, Amarante FC and F.C. Lixa.

In the 1997–98 season, Bock had his first spell with what would be his main club, S.C. Freamunde, scoring 30 goals to help the side promote from the fourth level, one of two consecutive. In the following seven years he played almost exclusively in division three, with very brief stints in the second tier; in 2004–05 he netted 32 in 34 matches for Freamunde, who could not however promote to the latter category.

Bock's finest moment in the second division of Portuguese football came in the 2005–06 campaign, as he led the scoring charts to help F.C. Vizela finish in 11th position, at 19 goals. In the 2007 January transfer window the veteran returned to Freamunde with the club in that same tier from 2007–08 onwards, going on to feature regularly until his departure at the age of 37.[3][4]

Club statistics

[5]

Club	Season	League		Cup		League Cup		Europe		Total
		Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Leixões	2002–03	25	9	0	0	-		-		25	9
Freamunde	2003–04	36	22	1	0	-		-		37	22
	2004–05	34	32	0	0	-		-		34	32
	Total	70	54	1	0	-		-		71	54
Vizela	2005–06	32	19	2	0	-		-		34	19
	2006–07	5	1	0	0	-		-		5	1
	Total	37	20	2	0	-		-		39	20
Freamunde	2006–07	15	3	0	0	-		-		15	3
	2007–08	28	11	2	0	1	0	-		31	11
	2008–09	27	4	2	0	4	0	-		33	4
	2009–10	29	5	2	0	2	1	-		33	6
	2010–11	28	15	1	0	3	0	-		32	15
	2011–12	27	10	1	0	3	1	-		31	11
	2012–13	31	4	2	0	5	2	-		38	6
	Total	185	52	10	0	18	4	-		213	56
Career totals						18	4	-

Honours

Club

Freamunde

• Terceira Divisão: 1997–98
• Segunda Divisão B: 1998–99, 2006–07

Leixões

• Segunda Divisão B: 2002–03

Individual

• Segunda Liga Top scorer: 2010–11
• Segunda Liga Player of the Month: November 2010, February 2011

References

1. Bock lamenta nunca ter jogado na I Liga (Bock regrets never having played in I League) Archived 9 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine; SAPO, 19 September 2012 (in Portuguese)
2. Bock: «Em Portugal treina-se muito e joga-se pouco» (Bock: «In Portugal you train too much and you play too little»); Futebol 365, 24 August 2012 (in Portuguese)
3. Bock: «É um grande alívio» (Bock: «It is a great relief») Archived 15 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine; Record, 13 May 2012 (in Portuguese)
4. Bock: «Quase não dormi» (Bock: «I hardly slept») Archived 22 August 2012 at the Wayback Machine; Record, 20 August 2012 (in Portuguese)
5. "Bock". Soccerway. Retrieved 9 July 2014.

External links

• Bock at ForaDeJogo