In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Alves and the second or paternal family name is Carreira.
Diego Alves
Alves warming up with Flamengo in 2018
Personal information
Full name
Diego Alves Carreira[1]
Date of birth
(1985-06-24) 24 June 1985 (age 38)
Place of birth
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Height
1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)[2]
Position(s)
Goalkeeper
Youth career
2001–2003
Botafogo-SP
2004
Atlético Mineiro
Senior career*
Years
Team
Apps
(Gls)
2004–2007
Atlético Mineiro
54
(0)
2007–2011
Almería
123
(0)
2011–2017
Valencia
146
(0)
2017–2023
Flamengo
151
(0)
2023
Celta
0
(0)
International career‡
2008
Brazil U23
2
(0)
2011–2017
Brazil
10
(0)
Medal record
Representing Brazil
Men's Football
2008 Beijing
Team Competition
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19:58, 8 February 2023 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 13 June 2017
Diego Alves Carreira (born 24 June 1985), known as Diego Alves, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.
Having begun his career at Atlético Mineiro in Brazil, he spent most of it in Spain with Almería and Valencia, making 269 La Liga appearances during the decade he played in Spain, during which time he stopped a record 23 penalty kicks.[3] In 2017 he returend to Brazil, and won several honours with Flamengo, including the Copa Libertadores in 2019.
Alves was part of the Brazilian squad which won a bronze medal at the 2008 Olympics, and made his senior international debut in 2011. He represented the latter at the Copa América Centenario.
^"FIFA Club World Cup Qatar 2019: List of Players: CR Flamengo" (PDF). FIFA. 5 December 2019. p. 4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 December 2019.
^"Diego Alves". Valencia CF. Archived from the original on 21 October 2016. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
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