Rafa Silva

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Rafa Silva
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Personal information
Full name Rafael Alexandre Fernandes Ferreira Silva
Date of birth (1993-05-17) 17 May 1993 (age 31)
Place of birth Forte da Casa, Portugal
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Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Braga
Number 18
Youth career
2002–2003 Povoense
2003–2011 Alverca
2011–2012 Feirense
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2012–2013 Feirense 41 (10)
2013– Braga 87 (13)
2014 Braga B 1 (0)
International career‡
2013 Portugal U20 2 (0)
2013–2015 Portugal U21 13 (3)
2014– Portugal 7 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 00:00, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 29 May 2016

Rafael Alexandre "Rafa" Fernandes Ferreira Silva (born 17 May 1993) is a Portuguese footballer who plays for S.C. Braga as a midfielder.

Club career

Feirense

Born in Forte da Casa, Vila Franca de Xira, Silva started playing football with Atlético Povoense and F.C. Alverca, both in the Lisbon District. In 2011, aged 18, he signed with C.D. Feirense with which he played his last year as a junior.

Silva made his professional debut on 29 July 2012, playing the full 90 minutes in a 2–1 home win against F.C. Penafiel for the season's domestic League Cup.[1] He only missed one game in the league campaign, totalling more than 3,200 minutes of action to help his team finish 13th in the second division.[2][3]

Braga

In June 2013, Silva signed a five-year contract with S.C. Braga for an undisclosed fee.[4] He made his Primeira Liga debut on 26 August, starting in a 2–1 win against C.F. Os Belenenses.[5] On 10 November, he scored his first goals, striking twice in a 3–1 win at S.C. Olhanense in the fourth round of the Taça de Portugal;[6] nineteen days later he netted for the first time in the league, in a 4–1 home triumph over the same opposition,[7] finishing his first year with 23 appearances and three goals[8] to help to a ninth-place finish.

The following season, Silva was a league ever-present for the Minho Province team and started all but one game. He scored three times in that edition of the cup, including one in the final which his team lost in a penalty shootout to Sporting Clube de Portugal at the Estádio Nacional on 31 May 2015.[9]

International career

Silva made his first appearance for the Portuguese under-20 team on 23 April 2013, against Uzbekistan.[10] He was not selected to that year's FIFA U-20 World Cup, however.

On 28 February 2014, Silva received his first callup for the senior side, for an exhibition game with Cameroon on 5 March.[11] He played the first 45 minutes of the game, in a 5–1 win in Leiria.[12]

On 19 May 2014, Silva was named in the final 23-man squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.[13] He remained unused in the group stage exit.

After scoring in both games against Azerbaijan in qualification,[14][15] Silva was part of the under-21 team that finished as runners-up at the 2015 UEFA European Championship in the Czech Republic.[16]

Club statistics

As of 29 April 2016[17]
Club Season League Cup League Cup Europe Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Feirense 2012–13 41 10 2 1 4 0 - - 47 11
Total 41 10 2 1 4 0 0 0 47 11
Braga 2013–14 23 3 5 4 4 2 0 0 32 9
2014–15 34 2 6 3 3 0 0 0 43 5
2015–16 28 8 2 0 4 0 12 3 46 11
Total 85 13 10 7 11 2 12 3 90 25
Career Total 126 23 12 8 15 2 12 3 137 36

Honours

Braga

References

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