Diego Alves

Alves at Valencia in August 2011

Diego Alves Carreira (* June 24, 1985 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian football goalkeeper who plays for FC Liga Valencia in the Spanish Primera.

Career

Association

Diego Alves started his career as a professional footballer in 2004 during his youth club Atlético Mineiro. At age 19, he already made ​​his debut in the first division of the gate. After three seasons in which he could indicate his talent in Brazil, has been committed by the Spanish Diego Alves Erstligaaufsteiger UD Almería.

Originally Diego Alves should act behind the loaned from FC Sevilla David Cobeño only as a substitute goalkeeper as this, however, repeatedly made ​​the headlines with gross blunders of himself, the young Brazilian was given the chance his skills in the Primera División to prove and did so excellently as the first Brazilian goalkeeper in the Spanish professional football.

For the season 2011/12 Diego Alves moved to Valencia, where he signed a one year contract.

National

For the 2008 Summer Olympics Carreira was in the squad of the Brazilian national football team.