Carlos Marques

Carlos Marques
Marques playing for Sporting
Personal information
Full name Carlos Manuel Oliveira Marques
Date of birth (1983-02-06) 6 February 1983 (age 41)
Place of birth Lisbon, Portugal
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
1992–2002 Sporting CP
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2001–2006 Sporting B 72 (1)
2004–2005 → Ovarense (loan) 25 (0)
2005–2006 → União Madeira (loan) 22 (0)
2006 Ethnikos 6 (0)
2007 Olivais Moscavide 11 (2)
2007–2011 APOP 65 (0)
2011 AEL Limassol 9 (0)
2011 Alki Larnaca 3 (0)
2012 Olympiakos Nicosia 11 (0)
2012–2015 Doxa 57 (0)
2015–2016 Pafos 14 (0)
2016–2017 Doxa 1 (0)
2017–2018 Digenis Akritas 23 (1)
Total 319 (4)
International career
2000 Portugal U16 11 (1)
2001 Portugal U17 7 (0)
2001–2002 Portugal U19 14 (0)
2003–2004 Portugal U20 4 (0)
2004 Portugal U21 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Carlos Manuel Oliveira Marques (born 6 February 1983) is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as a right back or a central defender.

He spent most of his career in Cyprus, arriving in the country in 2007.

Club career

Born in Lisbon, Marques joined local Sporting CP's youth academy at the age of 9. He could never appear for his hometown club's first team, only competing with the reserve side in the third division and being loaned twice.[1]

In 2006, released by the Lions, Marques signed with Ethnikos Piraeus F.C. of the Greek second level. Unsettled, he returned to his country in the following transfer window, joining C.D. Olivais e Moscavide in the second tier,[2] being regularly used during his four-month spell but suffering relegation.

Marques moved to APOP Kinyras FC during the summer of 2007.[1] In November of the following year, he tested positive in a doping test alongside compatriot Lionel Medeiros, following a match against Anorthosis Famagusta FC played on 31 October.[3] The Cyprus Football Association's judiciary committee imposed a one-year ban on the former starting from the day he sampled, but eventually took into consideration his cooperation as he showed coach Eduard Eranosyan to be solely responsible for the result;[4] the club decided to keep him and, in May, he helped it win the season's Cypriot Cup.

In early February 2011, Marques changed teams but stayed in the Cypriot First Division, signing for AEL Limassol.

International career

All youth levels comprised, Marques won 43 caps for Portugal and scored once.[5] His only appearance for the under-21s occurred on 17 August 2004, when he played the second half of the 0–0 friendly draw to Malta held in Pedroso, Vila Nova de Gaia.[6]

Club statistics

As of 24 September 2015
Club Season League Cup Continental Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Sporting B 2001–02[7] Portuguese Second Division 6 0 — 6 0
2002–03[7] Portuguese Second Division 30 0 — 30 0
2003–04[7] Portuguese Second Division 36 1 — 36 1
Total 72 1 — 72 1
Ovarense (loan) 2004–05[7] Segunda Liga 25 0 1 0 — 26 0
União Madeira (loan) 2005–06[7] Portuguese Second Division 22 0 0 0 — 22 0
Olivais Moscavide 2006–07[7] Segunda Liga 11 2 0 0 — 11 2
Ethnikos 2006–07[7] Football League 6 0 — 6 0
APOP 2007–08[7] Cypriot First Division 25 0 — 25 0
2008–09[7] Cypriot First Division 9 0 — 9 0
2009–10[7] Cypriot First Division 17 0 — 17 0
2010–11[7] Cypriot First Division 14 0 — 14 0
Total 65 0 — 65 0
AEL Limassol 2010–11[8] Cypriot First Division 9 0 0 0 — 9 0
Alki Larnaca 2011–12[8] Cypriot First Division 3 0 0 0 — 3 0
Olympiakos Nicosia 2011–12[8] Cypriot First Division 11 0 2 0 — 13 0
Doxa 2012–13[8] Cypriot First Division 15 0 0 0 — 15 0
2013–14[8] Cypriot First Division 21 0 5 0 — 26 0
2014–15[8] Cypriot First Division 21 0 2 0 — 23 0
Total 57 0 7 0 — 64 0
Pafos 2015–16[8] Cypriot First Division 2 0 0 0 — 2 0
Career total 283 3 10 0 0 0 293 3

References

  1. ^ a b As estrelas do futebol que nunca chegaram a ser um Figo, um Simão ou um Ronaldo (The football stars who never got to be Figo, Simão or Ronaldo); Público, 10 October 2010 (in Portuguese)
  2. ^ Olivais e Moscavide-Leixões, 1–2 (crónica) (Olivais e Moscavide-Leixões, 1–2 (match report)); Mais Futebol, 13 May 2007 (in Portuguese)
  3. ^ Βρέθηκε θετικός ο Κ. Μάρκες (Positive for C. Marques) Archived 16 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine; Shoot and Goal, 23 November 2008 (in Greek)
  4. ^ ΚΟΠ: Ποινή 1 έτους σε Μάρκες, Μεδέϊρος (COP: 1-year sentence for Marques, Medeiros) Archived 16 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine Shoot and Goal, 24 February 2009 (in Greek)
  5. ^ Carlos Marques; at Portuguese Football Federation (in Portuguese)
  6. ^ Sub-21: Portugal frente a Malta (Under-21: Portugal against Malta); Record, 18 August 2004 (in Portuguese)
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Carlos Marques". ForaDeJogo. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g "Carlos Marques". Soccerway. Retrieved 8 February 2015.