Eduardo Carvalho

Braga

Eduardo was born in Mirandela, Bragança District. A product of Braga's youth system, he first appeared in the Primeira Liga during 2006–07 when he served a six-month loan at Beira-Mar. In the following season he was also loaned, this time to Vitória de Setúbal, and was as a key player in a Carlos Carvalhal-led side that won the inaugural Taça da Liga and thus qualified for the 2008–09 UEFA Cup, with a Player of the match display in the final against Sporting CP where he saved three attempts in the penalty shootout. Eduardo returned to Braga for the 2008–09 campaign, playing in all the league matches and also in the Minho team's UEFA Cup round-of-16 run. The same happened in the following season – with them finishing in their best-ever position, second – as he only conceded 20 goals, joint-best in the competition.

Genoa

On 7 July 2010, Eduardo signed a four-year contract with Serie A's Genoa for €4.8 million, replacing departed Marco Amelia. Braga would also receive a 25% future transfer fee if Genoa sold the player. Eduardo started all the games but one for the Italians in his first and only season, in a final midtable position. In July 2011 he returned to his country and joined Benfica on loan, with the Lisbon club having an option to buy at the end of the campaign; during his spell at the Estádio da Luz, he appeared in only nine competitive matches. On 26 June 2012, Eduardo signed for İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyespor in a temporary deal, being…

After UEFA Euro 2008, Eduardo was called up by new Portugal national team coach Carlos Queiroz for the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Malta and Denmark, where he was understudy to Quim. He made his full debut on 11 February 2009 in a friendly match with Finland, playing the first 60 minutes in a 1–0 home win, and remained the starter throughout the remainder of the qualifying campaign; he also started in the final stages in South Africa, keeping clean sheets against Ivory Coast, North Korea and Brazil and only conceding in the round-of-16 loss against eventual champions Spain (0–1), where he saved many shots from the opposition, mostly by David Villa. After being relegated to the bench at his club, Eduardo met the same fate in the national team to Rui Patrício, and both finished the UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying campaign with five games as Portugal qualified for the finals. He was also named in the squad of 23 for the 2014 World Cup, but only actually played five minutes in the last group stage match against Ghana, coming on for injured Beto. An unused member as the side won Euro 2016 in France and Patrício starred, Eduardo made his final international appearance on 1 September 2016 in his first such match for over two years. He kept a clean sheet in the 5–0 friendly win over Gibraltar at the Estádio do Bessa.

Club

International

Vitória de Setúbal

Taça da Liga: 2007–08 Braga

UEFA Intertoto Cup: 2008 Benfica

Taça da Liga: 2011–12 Dinamo Zagreb

Croatian First Football League: 2014–15, 2015–16 Croatian Football Cup: 2014–15, 2015–16 Croatian Football Super Cup runner-up: 2014 Portugal

UEFA European Championship: 2016 Individual

Primeira Liga Breakthrough Player of the Year: 2006–07 Orders

Commander of the Order of Merit