Carlos Parente

Carlos Alberto Bastos Parente (born 8 April 1961 in Luanda, Portuguese Angola) is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a central midfielder.

Carlos Parente
Personal information
Full name Carlos Alberto Bastos Parente
Date of birth (1961-04-08) 8 April 1961
Place of birth Luanda, Angola
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
1977–1978 Sintrense
1978–1979 Benfica
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1979–1980 Estoril 30 (2)
1980–1984 Académica 63 (2)
1984–1991 Boavista 143 (20)
1991–1994 Salgueiros 29 (1)
1994–1995 Marco 21 (0)
Total 286 (25)
National team
1979 Portugal U20 2 (0)
1981 Portugal U21 2 (0)
1987 Portugal 2 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Club career

After a one-year youth spell at S.L. Benfica, Parente signed for neighbouring G.D. Estoril-Praia, and the 18-year-old did not miss one single match in the 1979–80 campaign, with the club being nonetheless relegated from the Primeira Liga. He then moved to Académica de Coimbra, meeting the same fate in his first season and playing a further three years with the Students in the second division.

Parente joined Boavista F.C. in the summer of 1984, going on to remain in the top level for one entire decade, also having represented Porto neighbours S.C. Salgueiros. Whilst with the former, in 1987–88, he scored a career-best nine goals in 33 games to help the team finish in fifth position, narrowly missing on qualification to the UEFA Cup; he retired from professional football at the age of 33, amassing top flight totals of 229 matches and 24 goals.

International career

Following the defection of practically all of the international players after the infamous Saltillo Affair at the 1986 FIFA World Cup, Parente earned two caps for the Portugal national team, both coming in the next year. His first arrived on 11 November, as he played the second half of a 0–0 home draw to Switzerland for the UEFA Euro 1988 qualifiers.

In 1979, Parente appeared with the under-20s at the FIFA World Cup in Japan, his output for the eventual quarter-finalists consisting of 50 minutes against Canada in the group stage (1–3 loss).

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