Carlos Eduardo is a soccer player from Brazil, playing in the position of the left midfielder. He has experience performing at the international level for both the youth and the main team. He was born in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande De Sul on July 18, 1987.
Football career
In the mid 2000s Carlos Eduardo was one of the most outstanding players until the age of 21. Real Madrid in 2005 offered him a transfer, but then the “creamy” ones refused to buy it, as they were afraid for its adaptation to the Spanish style of football.
In 2007, Carlos joined the German Hoffenheim for an amount of 8 million euros, but many publications claim that the real transfer price was 7 million. Carlos helped the German in his first season with Blau-Weiß (Blue and White) the club to enter the first Bundesliga and take 7th place in the German championship.
In August 2010, Carlos Eduardo moved from Germany to Russia, in the Kazan club Rubin, for 20 million euros. In his first match against the Perm “Amkar”, he scored a double, but then dropped out of the squad for a long time.
Health problems
In the winter of 2012, at the gathering of Rubin, he began to feel pain in the knee joint. A survey in Germany showed that the problem could not be solved without surgery. On January 19, he underwent knee surgery. German doctors said that Carlos may need 3 to 4 months to fully recover. In May, the midfielder returned to training. In August 2012, a player’s agent announced that Carlos Eduardo had a sore throat and could miss up to 6 weeks.
After the first two matches in the Russian Premier League against Amkar and Lokomotiv, Kurban Berdyev, head coach of the Rubin football club, rated the Brazilian midfielder's game as “good” after a two-year break. In the winter of 2013, the Brazilian was sent for rent for a year and a half to his homeland, to the Brazilian club Flamengo from Rio de Janeiro. Before being sent, Carlos signed a 4-year contract with FC Rubin until the end of the 2015-2015 season.
Return
Returning from Flamengo, in August 2014 the Brazilian came out in the 78th minute of the Rubin - CSKA match. In September, in a match with the Moscow Torpedo, Carlos Eduardo gave his team a point, reducing the score to a combat draw - 1: 1. This goal was the first for the Brazilian midfielder in the Russian Premier League in 4 years. Head coach of FC Rubin Rinat Bilyaletdinov began to provide Carlos with a place in the starting lineup at the games, and the Brazilian began to delight the coaching staff and fans with his exciting game. He is also the idol of many young athletes.