Fernando de Moraes

Fernando de Moraes, often only Fernando, ( born January 21, 1980 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian- Australian football and futsal player. In Brazil, he played only unterklassig, in his adopted home country of Australia, he became the second-rate Victorian state league club South Melbourne FC a crowd favorite. For the New Zealand Knights, he played the end of 2006 some games in the A-League. Since his naturalization he appeared frequently at the Australian futsal team.

Fernando played up to his 21 years at club level only Futsal, including at Corinthians São Paulo. By 2004, Fernando played with the Brazilian football club Palestra de São Bernardo from São Bernardo do Campo, in the area around the city of São Paulo in the fourth State League, before he moved in with his sister in Melbourne and there the South Melbourne FC, ​​a club of the essential of the Greek was established immigrants, joined.

Fernando quickly established himself in the team. On the recommendation in June 2006, he traveled to Athens to the local Egaleo AO to complete a trial, but got no offer was three weeks later in Melbourne. Despite his absence, he was at the end of the season with 12 -goal leading scorer of the club in the state league. With 13 points behind Oakleigh Cannons South Melbourne but was third in the league qualified via the play-offs for the final, in the Altona Magic was defeated 1-0 on September 24. Fernando was judged to be the best player of the finals with the Jimmy Rooney Medal.

Then the attacking midfielder played for some time by the New Zealand A- League club New Zealand Knights. He made his debut on 22 October at a 2:4 defeat at Adelaide United. Even before the end of December it was sorted out. After a disappointing time for club and player and only a handful of games, also primarily as a removable player, he was already in February 2007, again in Melbourne again and signed a two- year contract with South Melbourne.

He was a smart gate, where he ausmanöverierte the somewhat careless keeper of Sunshine George Cross and then in Brazil a star, albeit only for half a minute.

Fernando took part with the Australian Futsal national team at the Asia Cup 2008. Despite his two goals in the quarterfinals against hosts Thailand Australia defeated with 2:5, which Australia missed the finals for the first time. In May 2012, he contributed a vital goal in a 3-2 victory against Kuwait in the qualification of the Qantas Futsal Roos for Futsal World Cup 2012 in Thailand. There he was a regular player, Australia difference but after 1:9, or 1:7 defeat against Italy and Argentina with only one victory against Mexico in the first round.

After Agenor Muniz, who raced in the 1970s for the senior team, Fernando de Moraes, the second naturalized Brazilian who played for a variety of Australian Football Association.