Ricardo Carvalho is an international footballer as a centre-back

Ricardo Alberto Silveira de Carvalho is the full name of the footballer Ricardo Carvalho, who was born on May 18, 1978 in Amarante Portugal. He played in Spain as the center-back to La Liga club Real Madrid and Portugal national team.
Carvalho was born in Amarante began his career football for local teams Amarante Futebol Clube. With outstanding performance, he finally brought play to FC Porto junior in 1996, between 1997 and 2001 Carvalho loaned to the club Leca where he made his professional debut. In 2002-2003, Carvalho made his name known in Europe for having won the domestic first league title under coach Mourinho's reign, among others, won the Portuguese Cup, UEFA Cup and make him get an international call line-up in 2003. In the next season, Carvalo won the league title for the second time in a row including the UEFA Champions League title in which he received the title "the best defender in the tournament.
In July 2004, Carvalho move to Chelsea with a value below € 30 million and 'The Blues' win two Premier League titles in a row and one League Cup in his first season in 2008 and Carvalho helping Chelsea reach the final of the UEFA Champions League for the first time in the history of 'The Blues' penalty against Manchester United through penalty.
In the same year, Carvalho was selected by fellow Chelsea as '2008 Players Player of the Year '. Two years later, in the 2009-2010 season, Carvalho helped 'The Blues' won the first FA Cup since 2006. In August 2010, after six years playing with Chelsea, Carvalho moved to Real Madrid with a value of £ 6,700,000. In his career internationally with the national team of Portugal, Carvalho started in a friendly against Albania on October 11, 2003. He also represented Portugal at UEFA EURO 2004, FIFA World Cup 2006, UEFA EURO 2008 and FIFA World Cup 2010. Carvalho played in the UEFA EURO 2004 as against Greece and had become a mainstay of the Portuguese national team when the 2006 FIFA World Cup. He helped Portugal reach the semi-finals before being beaten by France. In UEFA EURO 2008, Carvalho played in three of four games and defeated by Germany in the quarterfinals. Two years later at the 2010 FIFA World Cup, he was elected strengthening the national team of Portugal, Carvalho just casual play and only scored one goal in four games
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