| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Carlos Miguel Mondim Saleiro[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1986-02-25)25 February 1986 (age 39)[2] | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Lisbon, Portugal[2] | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)[2] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1994–2005 | Sporting CP | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2003–2004 | Sporting B | 35 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| 2005–2011 | Sporting CP | 43 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| 2005–2007 | →Olivais e Moscavide (loan) | 26 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
| 2007–2008 | →Fátima (loan) | 26 | (9) | ||||||||||||||
| 2008 | →Vitória Setúbal (loan) | 5 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2009 | →Académica (loan) | 13 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
| 2011–2012 | Servette | 7 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2012–2013 | Académica | 7 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2014–2016 | Oriental | 31 | (7) | ||||||||||||||
| 2016 | Port Vale | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 193 | (30) | |||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2002–2003 | Portugal U17 | 18 | (7) | ||||||||||||||
| 2004 | Portugal U18 | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2005 | Portugal U19 | 8 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2007 | Portugal U20 | 3 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2007–2008 | Portugal U21 | 6 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2009–2010 | Portugal U23 | 4 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Carlos Miguel Mondim Saleiro (born 25 February 1986) is aPortuguese former professionalfootballer who played as aforward.
He was the first baby in Portugal born throughin vitro fertilisation treatment (IVF), and he began his career atSporting CP. He played forSporting B in the 2003–04 season. He won caps at every level of Portuguese international football fromunder-17 tounder-23. He helped his country to win theUEFA European Under-17 Championship in2003 and theInternational Challenge Trophy in2009–11. He wasloaned out toOlivais e Moscavide from 2005 to 2007, and helped the club to winpromotion out of theSegunda Divisão in 2005–06. He spent the 2007–08 season on loan atFátima, and was loaned out toPrimeira Liga clubsVitória Setúbal andAcadémica in the 2008–09 campaign.
He made his first-team debut for Sporting CP in August 2009 and went on to make 67 first-team appearances in two seasons before he moved toSwiss Super League sideServette in July 2011. He signed with Académica in June 2012 and then, after a year out of the game, joinedOriental in July 2014. He signed with the English clubPort Vale in July 2016 but left after six weeks.
Carlos Miguel Mondim Saleiro was born inLisbon on 25 February 1986 and was the first baby in Portugal to be born throughin vitro fertilisation treatment (IVF).[3] He spent his youth atSporting CP'syouth academy, and spent the2003–04 season withSporting B, scoring three goals in 35Segunda Divisão – Zona Sul (third tier) matches as they wererelegated into theTerceira Divisão (fourth tier).
He spent the latter half of the2005–06 campaign onloan atOlivais e Moscavide in Segunda Divisão Série D, and though injuries limited him to just two league appearances, he managed to feature in the play-offs as the club securedpromotion into theLiga de Honra (second tier).[4] He returned to the club for the2006–07 campaign, and scored four goals in 26 games as they were relegated in 15th place. He returned to the Liga de Honra for the2007–08 campaign on loan at newly promotedFátima, who werecoached byRui Vitória.[5] He scored 11 goals in 32 league and cup appearances despite Fátima suffering relegation in last place. Despite their league form, Fátima did manage to pull off one of the biggest shock victories of their history by eliminatingPorto out of theTaça da Liga on penalties.[6] He was later voted as the second best player of the tournament, behindCláudio Pitbull, having scored againstSanta Clara, converted in the shoot-out against Porto, and scored in the club's fourth round defeat to his parent club Sporting CP.[7] He signed a new four-yearcontract with Sporting CP in April 2008.[8] He stated that he aimed to win a first-team place and was "tired of loans".[9]
He was givenPrimeira Liga (first tier) experience for the2008–09 season after securing a loan move toVitória de Setúbal. However, he featured just five times in the league under coachDaúto Faquirá, leading Saleiro to complain to the press about his lack of first-team opportunities.[10] He spent the second half of the campaign on loan atAcadémica, and finished the season as the club's joint-second-highest scorer (tied withModou Sougou) with four goals in 13 games to help the club secure a seventh-place finish in the Primeira Liga.[11]
Saleiro made his first-team debut for the "Lions" underPaulo Bento on 26 August 2009, playing 30 minutes in a 1–1 draw withFiorentina at theStadio Artemio Franchi for thelast qualifying round of theUEFA Champions League.[12] Four days later he made his league debut for the club, in a 1–0 win at former side Académica.[13] He made a total of 28 appearances in the2009–10 season, scoring five goals, mostly under the stewardship of newhead coachCarlos Carvalhal. He made 39 appearances in the2010–11 season, scoring two goals, as Sporting CP finished in third place, some distance behind 'Big Three' rivals Porto andBenfica.[14] However, much to his frustration, he was frequently used a latesubstitute by coachPaulo Sérgio and so had limited game time at theEstádio José Alvalade.[15][16] He chose to leave Sporting CP a year before the end of his contract to search for first-team football elsewhere, despite reports that new head coachDomingos Paciência's rated him highly.[17][18]
Saleiro signed a two-year contract withServette in July 2011, who were managed by Portuguese head coachJoão Alves and director of footballCostinha.[19][20][16] He hoped the move would allow him a chance to win himself a place in thePortugal squad forUEFA Euro 2012.[16] However, he struggled with injuries and played only sevenSwiss Super League matches in the2011–12 season.[21] He signed withPedro Emanuel's Académica in June 2012.[22] He missed pre-season with anAchilles tendon injury however, and after returning to fitness in November featured in just seven Primeira Liga and five cup games.[23][24] He was without a club for the 2013–14 season.[24] He signed with Segunda Liga clubClube Oriental de Lisboa in July 2014.[25] He finished the2014–15 season with five goals in 20 appearances and signed a one-year contract extension in June 2015.[26] The2015–16 season proved to be disastrous however, as Oriental were relegated and serious but unproven allegations were made of match fixing against some of the players – though Saleiro himself was not implicated.[27]
Saleiro signed a two-year contract with EnglishLeague One clubPort Vale, managed by Portuguese coachBruno Ribeiro, in July 2016.[28] He made his debut for the "Valiants" on 9 August, coming on as a 73rd-minute substitute forChris Mbamba in a 2–1 defeat toCarlisle United in theEFL Cup.[29] However, his contract was terminated by mutual consent on 16 August 2016, with a club statement revealing that he "found it difficult to adjust to life in the country".[30]
Saleiro representedPortugal at the2003 UEFA European Under-17 Championship. He scored againstEngland in the semi-finals, a 2–2 draw at theEstádio do Fontelo; he went on to convert hispenalty in theshoot-out to help Portugal progress into the final.[31] He also played in the final, where two goals fromMárcio Sousa gave Portugal a 2–1 win overSpain to win his country a fifthUEFA European Under-17 Championship title.[32] He also travelled toFinland for the2003 FIFA U-17 World Championship, where Spain exacted their revenge by eliminating Portugal at the quarter-final stage.[33] In total he scored seven goals in 18 under-17 games. Then he won two caps atunder-18 level in 2004.[34] The following year he scored one goal in eight appearances for theunder-19 team.[34] He travelled with thePortugal under-20squad for the2007 Toulon Tournament, and featured in three games.[34]
He was called up to thePortugal under-21 team. He appeared inqualification games for the2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, scoring in a 2–0 win overBulgaria at theEstádio D. Afonso Henriques on 26 March 2008.[35] He was called up to thePortugal under-23 squad for the2009–11 International Challenge Trophy, and played in the final where Portugal defeatedEngland 1–0 atSixfields Stadium.[36]
| Club | Season | Division | League | National Cup[a] | League Cup[b] | Other | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
| Sporting B | 2003–04[34] | Segunda Divisão – Zona Sul | 35 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 3 |
| Sporting CP | 2009–10[37] | Primeira Liga | 16 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7[c] | 1[c] | 28 | 5 |
| 2010–11[37] | Primeira Liga | 27 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9[c] | 1[c] | 39 | 2 | |
| Total | 43 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 16 | 2 | 67 | 7 | ||
| Olivais e Moscavide (loan) | 2005–06[34] | Segunda Divisão Série D | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1[d] | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Olivais e Moscavide (loan) | 2006–07[34] | Liga de Honra | 24 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 4 |
| Fátima (loan) | 2007–08[34] | Liga de Honra | 26 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 11 |
| Vitória Setúbal (loan) | 2008–09[34] | Primeira Liga | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| Académica (loan) | 2008–09[37] | Primeira Liga | 13 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 4 |
| Servette | 2011–12[37] | Swiss Super League | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| Académica | 2012–13[37] | Primeira Liga | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 1 |
| Oriental | 2014–15[37] | Segunda Liga | 16 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 5 |
| 2015–16[37] | LigaPro | 15 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 5 | |
| Total | 31 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 10 | ||
| Port Vale | 2016–17[38] | EFL League One | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Career total | 193 | 30 | 13 | 1 | 16 | 7 | 17 | 2 | 239 | 40 | ||
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