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Ricardo Carvalho
Personal information
Full name	Ricardo Alberto Silveira Carvalho
Date of birth	May 18, 1978 (age 28)
Place of birth	Amarante, Portugal
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Nickname	Riccy (Carvalho) / Lord Percy
Playing position	Defender
Club information
Current club	Chelsea FC
Number	6
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1998-2004 1999-2000 2000-2001 2004-	FC Porto Vitória FC FC Alverca Chelsea FC	73 (3) 25 (2) 29 (1) 76 (4)
National team2
2003-	Portugal	38 (4)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of March 20, 2007. 2 National team caps and goals correct as of March 28, 2007. * Appearances (Goals)

Ricardo Alberto Silveira Carvalho, OIH (born May 18, 1978 in Amarante, near Porto), pron. IPA: [ʁi'kaɾdu kɐɾ'vaʎu], is a Portuguese football player. He shares his birthplace with his colleague in the Portuguese national team, Nuno Gomes. He currently plays as a central defender for Chelsea.

Contents 1 Career overview 1.1 FC Porto 1.2 Chelsea 2 International career 3 Titles earned 4 External links

His professional career started attached to FC Porto. In his youth he was considered to have the potential to become a great player, often being compared to Fernando Couto, a successful former player of the club with some similar physical and footballing characteristics. However, it took a couple years and several loans to minor clubs until he became a settled player of Porto. He finally came to prominence during the 2003-2004 football season, gathering many plaudits for his impressive performances in the Portuguese Superliga and UEFA Champions League, both of which Porto won. He was voted the best defender in the Champions League for 2003/2004. The committee that selected him cited his strength and exceptional ability to win the ball in the air.

As a result of his FC Porto and Portuguese national team success of 2004, he was pursued by several top European clubs, and was finally signed by English big-spenders Chelsea for £19,850,000.

At Stamford Bridge, Carvalho joined his former manager José Mourinho and former teammate Paulo Ferreira, both of whom were signed by Chelsea earlier in the offseason. He performed well in his first season with Chelsea and helped them win the Premier League and the League Cup. He scored his first goal for Chelsea in a 3-1 victory over Norwich City.

The start of 2005-2006 was not as smooth for Carvalho, as he was publicly lambasted by Mourinho after making comments relating to his lack of match time. He later returned to favour, though, and was a near-regular in the side from September. He scored his second Chelsea goal in the 4-0 home win to Real Betis in the Champions League. Carvalho continued his scoring run in Europe by netting the second goal in Chelsea's 2-0 away victory over RSC Anderlecht of Belgium, scoring from a Hernàn Crespo flick on which he blasted into the roof of the net. Carvalho received the first red card of his Chelsea career in January 2006, in Chelsea's 3-2 victory over Fulham F.C., and on 29 April 2006, he scored a goal in the Barclay's Premier League match against Manchester United, finishing off a move he had started on the edge of his own penalty area by smashing the ball into the net, to help Chelsea clinch the title for the second consecutive year. Carvalho scored the equalizer against Manchester United in a 1-1 draw in the following season - a header off of a Frank Lampard corner that also bounced off Louis Saha's head.

During this 2003-04 season, Ricardo also had his debut for Portugal at 11 October 2003, in a 5-3 friendly match win over Albania. Carvalho settled himself as an essential part of the national team starting eleven during the Euro 2004 Championship, a tournament in which he was considered to be one of the best defenders. He formed a strong partnership with Jorge Andrade in the Portuguese defence as his country reached the final, though they lost 1-0 to Greece.

Ricardo Carvalho represented Portugal in a major tournament for the second time, at the 2006 World Cup in Germany. During the quarter-final game against England, Wayne Rooney was controversially adjudged to have stomped Carvalho's groin, right in front of the referee, and was sent off for violent conduct. In the following semi-final game vs France in Munich on July 5, 2006, Carvalho was whistled for a foul against France's Thierry Henry in the penalty area resulting in a penalty kick. Zinedine Zidane converted the spot kick to give France a 1-0 win over Portugal. Also in the same game, Carvalho was booked with his second yellow card of the knockout phase, and was forced to miss the third place game vs Germany on July 8 in Stuttgart. He played all other preceding matches in the cup on the starting lineup, and as a result of his exhibitions he was one of the 23 players nominated for the All Star Team of the tournament. Carvalho scored his most recent goal in a 6-1 win against Macclesfield Town F.C. on January 6, 2007.

On February 6 2007, Carvalho scored the fourth goal for his country in Portugal's 2-0 victory over Brazil in a friendly game staged at the Emirates Stadium in London.

• Portuguese SuperLiga (2003, 2004)
• Portuguese Cup (2003)
• UEFA Cup (2003)
• Portuguese Footballer of the Year (2003)
• UEFA Best Defender of the Year (2004)
• UEFA Champions League (2004)
• English League Cup (2005, 2007)
• English Premiership (2005, 2006)
• Community Shield (2005)

• www.PortuGOAL.net | | The definitive Portuguese football site (Player Profile Section)
• Ricardo Carvalho career stats at Soccerbase
• BBC profile
• Chelsea FC website

	Portugal squad - 2004 European Football Championship Runners-Up
1 Ricardo | 2 P. Ferreira | 3 Rui Jorge | 4 J. Andrade | 5 F. Couto | 6 Costinha | 7 Figo | 8 Petit | 9 Pauleta | 10 Rui Costa | 11 Simão | 12 Quim | 13 Miguel | 14 N. Valente | 15 Beto | 16 R. Carvalho | 17 C. Ronaldo | 18 Maniche | 19 Tiago | 20 Deco | 21 Nuno Gomes | 22 Moreira | 23 H. Postiga | Coach: Scolari

	Portugal squad - 2006 FIFA World Cup Fourth Place
1 Ricardo | 2 P. Ferreira | 3 Caneira | 4 R. Costa | 5 Meira | 6 Costinha | 7 Figo | 8 Petit | 9 Pauleta | 10 H. Viana | 11 Simão | 12 Quim | 13 Miguel | 14 N. Valente | 15 Boa Morte | 16 R. Carvalho | 17 C. Ronaldo | 18 Maniche | 19 Tiago | 20 Deco | 21 Nuno Gomes | 22 P. Santos | 23 H. Postiga | Coach: Scolari

Chelsea F.C. - Current Squad
1 Čech | 3 A. Cole | 4 Makélélé | 5 Essien | 6 Carvalho | 7 Shevchenko | 8 Lampard | 9 Boulahrouz | 10 J. Cole | 11 Drogba | 12 Mikel | 13 Ballack | 14 Geremi | 16 Robben | 18 Bridge | 19 Diarra | 20 Ferreira | 21 Kalou | 22 Hedman | 23 Cudicini | 24 Wright-Phillips | 26 Terry | 33 Morais | 40 Hilário | 41 Makabu-Makalambay | 47 Sahar | 48 Woods | Manager: Mourinho