Odaïr Fortes

Odair Fortes Junior Lopes (born 31 March 1987) is a Cape Verde footballer. The midfielder played his career so far in France.

Sports career

Fortes lived until 2004 in his home country. Then he went to his uncle in Vitry -sur -Seine, where he trained as a painter. In parallel, he joined the gambling in unterklassigen Amateuerbereich UJA Alfortville. There he was part of the recovery, which brought the club from the Sechstklassigkeit to the brink of professional football. After the rise in the Championnat de France amateur in 2008 he had made higher class attention to himself and left the club.

Fortes moved to the French professional football, and Stade Reims joined in Ligue 2. In the first two games still in the starting lineup, he then lost his place and had long stretches of game time, only a reserve player. In spite of a trainer - the multiple international Luis Fernández took over in January 2009 - was the season unsuccessful, and the crew got off in the third-class nation. Under coach Hubert Fournier, the coach during his training period in the season 2009/10 Marc Collat ​​stood as the official in charge to the side, became Fortes in the third division for stem force in midfield. With seven goals this season, he was instrumental in that the club made ​​the direct promotion back to the second division. In parallel, he thus played out in the Cape Verdean national selection, for which he debuted during the year 2010.