Place of birth Lisbon, Portugal Name Carlos Deus Playing position Role Footballer | 1976–1978 Sporting Height 1.76 m 1978–1981 Benfica | |
Full name Carlos Eduardo Deus Pereira Date of birth (1962-12-25) 25 December 1962 (age 52) | ||
Carlos Eduardo Deus Pereira (born 25 December 1962) is a Portuguese retired footballer who played mainly as a right-back.
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Over the course of five seasons, he amassed 70 Primeira Liga matches and one goal.
Club career
Born in Lisbon, a youth graduate from Benfica, he made his debut on 8 November 1981. With the right-back position being occupied by Pietra and Veloso, Pereira had very little opportunities to play.
In 1988, he moved to Farense in transit to Sporting, and helped the team reach the 1990 Taça de Portugal Final, lost to Estrela da Amadora. However, having sustained a serious injury in the upper extremity of femur, while still at Benfica, Pereira ended his career abruptly at age 30.
In an interview to A Bola on 2 March 2014, Pereira described his debilitating injury. "I suffered a tackle in my femur, in a Belenenses-Benfica. It developed into a necrosis in the upper part and it got progressively worst, until I needed surgery, to have a prosthetic implanted. I was imobilized for a long time. In my final year at Farense, I couldn't bow down, kids from the youth ranks had to tie my shoes. I was in horrible pain and finished my career early, at age 30."
After football, he ended up being associated with Farense, as Chairman of the SAD, and also with the Algarve Football Association and Liga Portuguesa de Futebol Profissional.
International career
Pereira amassed 18 caps from under-16 to under-21 level.