Bernardo Silva: Difference between revisions

| years5 = 2017–

| clubs5 = [[Manchester City F.C.|Manchester City]]

| goals5 = 39

| nationalyears1 = 2013

| nationalyears3 = 2015–

| nationalteam3 = [[Portugal national football team|Portugal]]

| nationalgoals3 = 12

| medaltemplates = {{Medal|Sport|Men's [[Association football|football]]}}

{{Medal|Comp|[[UEFA European Under-21 Championship]]|}}

{{medal|RU|[[2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship|2015]]|}}

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'''Bernardo Mota Veiga de Carvalho e Silva''' ({{IPA|pt|bɨɾˈnaɾðu ˈsilvɐ}}; born 10 August 1994) is a Portuguese professional [[Association football|footballer]] who plays as a [[midfielder]] or [[Winger (association football)|right winger]] for {{English football updater|ManchesC}} club [[Manchester City F.C.|Manchester City]] and the [[Portugal national football team|Portugal national team]]. Considered one of the best midfielders in the world, Silva is known for his creativity, dribbling, stamina, versatility, and work-rate.<ref>{{cite web |first=Ryan |last=Dabbs |date=21 October 2022 |title=Ranked! The 10 best attacking midfielders in the world right now |url=https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/ranked-the-10-best-attacking-midfielders-in-the-world-right-now |access-date=30 October 2022 |website=FourFourTwo |archive-date=30 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221030084620/https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/ranked-the-10-best-attacking-midfielders-in-the-world-right-now |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=25 August 2022 |title=15 Best Midfielders In The World Right Now |url=https://www.1sports1.com/best-midfielders-world-right-now/ |access-date=30 October 2022 |website=1SPORTS1 |archive-date=3 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221003211709/https://www.1sports1.com/best-midfielders-world-right-now/ |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Pep Guardiola]] has described Silva as one of the best players he has ever seen.<ref name="bbc.co.uk">{{cite web |date=29 October 2023 |title= Manchester United 0-3 Manchester City: Red Devils given 'a footballing lesson', say pundits |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/67257505 |access-date=29 October 2023|website=BBC Sport}}</ref>

On 31 March 2015, Silva made his senior debut for [[Portugal national football team|Portugal]], starting in a 0–2 friendly defeat to [[Cape Verde national football team|Cape Verde]] in [[Estoril]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Portugal 0–2 Cape Verde Islands|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32140214|access-date=31 March 2015|work=BBC Sport|date=31 March 2015|archive-date=1 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150401062420/http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32140214|url-status=live}}</ref>

 

 

Silva was selected for the Portugal squad for the [[2017 FIFA Confederations Cup|2017 Confederations Cup]] which was hosted in [[Russia]]. He scored the second goal of the match in the group stage of the tournament, a 4–0 win over [[New Zealand national football team|New Zealand]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.fifa.com/confederationscup/matches/round=274633/match=300334887/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170220094258/http://www.fifa.com/confederationscup/matches/round=274633/match=300334887/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=20 February 2017 |title=New Zealand vs Portugal |publisher=FIFA |access-date=26 February 2019}}</ref> The national team reached the semi-finals before losing out to [[Chile national football team|Chile]] in a [[Penalty shoot-out (association football)|penalty shootout]] after a 0–0 draw at the end of regulation time. He missed the [[2017 FIFA Confederations Cup knockout stage#Third place play-off|third place play-off]] in which Portugal defeated [[Mexico national football team|Mexico]] 2–1 after extra time.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fifa.com/confederationscup/matches/round=274643/match=300334886/match-report.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170504000633/http://www.fifa.com/confederationscup/matches/round=274643/match=300334886/match-report.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 May 2017|title=Portugal come from behind to finish third|publisher=FIFA|date=2 July 2017|access-date=2 July 2017|quote=Portugal finished their FIFA Confederations Cup Russia 2017 campaign on a high by beating Mexico 2–1 after extra time in the play-off for third place at the Spartak Stadium in Moscow in front of 42,659 fans. }}</ref>

==Career statistics==

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===International===

 

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:''Portugal score listed first, score column indicates score after each Silva goal''<ref name="NFT"/>