Personal information | |||
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Full name | Carlos Clay de França | ||
Date of birth | 1 January 1980 | ||
Place of birth | Jaguariúna, Brazil | ||
Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Sampdoria (Under-18 coach) | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2005 | CE Europa | ||
2008 | Chicago Fire Premier | ||
2009–2011 | Caperanese/Chiavari | 61 | (46) |
2011 | Bogliasco | 16 | (6) |
2011–2012 | Legnago Salus | 14 | (4) |
2012–2013 | Lavagnese | 33 | (16) |
2013–2014 | RapalloBogliasco | 32 | (29) |
2014–2015 | Cuneo | 36 | (27) |
2015–2016 | Lecco | 33 | (27) |
2016–2017 | Triestina | 31 | (23) |
2017–2020 | Potenza | 72 | (39) |
2020–2021 | Seregno | 0 | (0) |
2021 | RG Ticino | 8 | (0) |
Managerial career | |||
2021 | Seregno | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 29 December 2021 |
Carlos Clay de França[1] (born 1 January 1980) is a Brazilian association football coach and former player. He works with Sampdoria as the club's Under-18 youth coach.
Playing career
França started his European career playing for the small Barcelona-based club CE Europa.[2] He scored a goal for the team to win a promotion to Tercera División in 2005.[3] He suffered from a spinal tumor in 2006 that almost ended his football career.[4] According to the footballer himself, he also played for Chicago Fire Premier and Chicago Storm.[5] França scored a goal in the last group stage round in 2008 PDL season for Chicago Fire Premier against Michigan Bucks.[6]
He was a player of Caperanese in the 2009–10 season, which won Serie D promotion in 2010 from Eccellenza Liguria (Italian sixth highest level until 2014; top level of Liguria region).[7][8]
Serie D clubs
França remained in the squad of Caperanese in 2010–11 Serie D season. In May 2011, he joined Bogliasco.[9]
França joined Cuneo in 2014.[10]
França joined Lecco in 2015.[11] In the following season, he joined fellow Serie D club Triestina.[12]
After winning the Serie D promotion playoffs with Triestina, França signed a new contract with the club on 7 July 2017.[13] The promotion of Triestina was confirmed on 4 August.[14] However, on 31 August 2017, he returned to Serie D for Potenza.[15] França played twice for Triestina in 2017–18 Coppa Italia and once at 2017–18 Coppa Italia Serie C.[16]
Potenza
França was a player for Potenza since mid-2017. The team won promotion to Serie C as 2017–18 Serie D Group H winner. He also scored 25 league goals that season, as the second in the topscorer table of that group.[17]
Seregno
On 17 August 2020 he moved to Seregno.[18]
In November, he was sidelined due to a serious knee injury which required surgery.[19]
RG Ticino
In August 2021, after having guided Seregno to Serie C as a head coach, França decided to accept an offer as a player for Serie D team RG Ticino.[20] He successively left the club by the end of December and retired again from active football.[21]
Coaching career
On 2 March 2021, while still recovering from injury, his club Seregno announced to have promoted França as head coach of the Serie D club.[22] Under his tenure, Seregno managed to climb up the table and win promotion to Serie C with one game still in hand, thus bringing back the Lombardian club to professional football for the first time since 1982.[23] Despite his successes, on 24 July 2021 Seregno announced França was not confirmed as head coach for the club's upcoming Serie C campaign.[24]
In the summer of 2023, França accepted an offer from Sampdoria to be the club's new under-18 coach.[25]
Honours
Player
- club
- Serie D group stage winner: 2015 (Cuneo)
- Serie D group stage runner-up and promotion playoffs winner: 2017 (Triestina)
- Eccellenza group stage runner-up (Liguria) and promotion playoffs winner: 2010 (Caperanese)[7][8]
- individual
- Serie D Group A topscorer: 2015 (Cuneo)[26]
- Eccellenza Liguria topscorer: 2010 (Caperanese)[27]
Manager
Seregno
Personal life
Cassiano Bodini is his brother-in-law.[28]
References
- ^ "Bloco de notas" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF). 10 August 2009. p. 546. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 October 2009. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
- ^ "Página en Construcción - Grupo Zeta".
- ^ "Carlos Clay de França, capoeira i ascens" (PDF). L'Escapulat (in Catalan). CE Europa. 7 November 2010. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
- ^ Dolci, Stefano (19 October 2016). "Carlos França, il bomber più letale d'Italia fino a 8 anni fa era un terzino" (in Italian). Eurosport. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
- ^ Caruso, Francesco (11 November 2016). "Triestina, è França il bomber più "illegale" degli ultimi tre anni: "Vi racconto i miei segreti"". gianlucadimarzio.com (in Italian). Sky Italia. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
- ^ Stickradt, Dan (17 July 2008). "Bucks can't put out Fire" (PDF). Canton Observer. Retrieved 24 September 2017 – via Canton Public Library.
- ^ a b Bianchi, Claudio (6 June 2010). "Play Off Nazionali di Eccellenza: Vince la Caperanese". dilettantissimo.tv (in Italian). Retrieved 24 September 2017.
- ^ a b Bianchi, Claudio (13 June 2010). "Finale Play Off: Castelnuovo Sandrà - Caperanese". dilettantissimo.tv (in Italian). Retrieved 24 September 2017.
- ^ Galfrè, Christian (31 May 2011). "Calcio, sulle panchine dei dilettanti proseguono gli addii di fine stagione". Genova24 (in Italian). Retrieved 24 September 2017.
- ^ "Carlos Clay França è del Cuneo" (Press release) (in Italian). Cuneo: A.C. Cuneo 1905. 17 July 2014. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
- ^ "Colpo grosso Lecco, ecco Carlos França" (Press release) (in Italian). Lecco: Calcio Lecco 1912. 16 July 2015. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
- ^ "Triestina, ufficiale l'arrivo del bomber França". Il Piccolo (in Italian). Trieste. 6 July 2016. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
- ^ "CONFERMATO IL BOMBER CARLOS FRANçA PER LA STAGIONE 2017/18" (Press release) (in Italian). Trieste: U.S. Triestina Calcio 1918. 7 July 2017. Archived from the original on 24 September 2017. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
- ^ "Lega Pro a 56 squadre. Ripescata la Triestina, respinte le domande di Rende e Rieti" (Press release) (in Italian). FIGC. 4 August 2017. Archived from the original on 14 June 2018. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
- ^ "Risoluzione consensuale con Carlos França: la punta brasiliana si accasa al Potenza" (Press release) (in Italian). Trieste: U.S. Triestina Calcio 1918. 31 August 2017. Archived from the original on 24 September 2017. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
- ^ "LA "PRIMA" IN CASA E' UN SUCCESSO: SÜDTIROL - TRIESTINA 1–0" (Press release) (in Italian). Bolzano: F.C. Südtirol. 20 August 2017. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
- ^ "Serie D, girone H: la classifica finale marcatori della stagione 2017/18". dp24.it (in Italian). 6 May 2018. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
- ^ "Il Seregno Calcio comunica di aver raggiunto l'accordo con il calciatore Carlos França" (in Italian). Seregno. 17 August 2020.
- ^ "Carlos França, stagione finita per il bomber: il Seregno ci pensa su" (in Italian). Il Giorno. 26 November 2020. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
- ^ "Colpaccio di mercato del RG Ticino: ufficiale in attacco l'arrivo di Carlos França" (in Italian). Tuttocampo. 29 August 2021. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
- ^ "VERDEGRANATA DIREZIONE VADO: ULTIMA TRASFERTA PER QUESTO IMPEGNATIVO 2021" (in Italian). RG Ticino. 21 December 2021. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
- ^ "Serie D, il Seregno volta pagina: Carlos Franca è il nuovo allenatore" (in Italian). Il Cittadino. 2 March 2021. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
- ^ "Il Seregno è in serie C, la nuova favola di Carlos França" (in Italian). Il Cittadino. 6 June 2021. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
- ^ "Calciomercato Serie C: Seregno, Carlos França va via" (in Italian). Corriere dello Sport - Stadio. 24 July 2021. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
- ^ "Sampdoria U18, França: "La mia voglia a disposizione della Sampdoria"" (in Italian). SampNews24.com. 23 August 2023. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
- ^ "Cuneo in Lega Pro, França capocannoniere del girone: "Sono felice, i miei gol hanno aiutato la squadra"". campioni.cn (in Italian). 14 May 2015. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
- ^ "classifiche elenco" (require manual parameter input). dilettantissimo.tv (in Italian). Retrieved 24 September 2017.
- ^ Ingraffia, Gabriele (2 February 2010). "Carlos França: da terzino a bomber. La sua storia". dilettantissimo.tv (in Italian). Retrieved 24 September 2017.
External links
- Carlos França at Soccerway
- Carlos França at TuttoCalciatori.net (in Italian)
- 1980 births
- Living people
- Footballers from São Paulo (state)
- Brazilian men's footballers
- Brazilian football managers
- Brazilian expatriate men's footballers
- Chicago Fire U-23 players
- CE Europa footballers
- US Triestina Calcio 1918 players
- Potenza Calcio players
- US 1913 Seregno Calcio players
- Serie C players
- Serie D players
- Men's association football forwards
- Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States
- Expatriate men's footballers in Spain
- Expatriate men's footballers in Italy
- Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in the United States
- Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Spain
- Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Italy
- USD Lavagnese 1919 players