Carlos Clay de França (born 1 January 1980) is a Brazilian

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and former player.

Playing career

França played for Spanish side

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. He scored a goal for the team to win a promotion to

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in 2005. He suffered from a spinal tumor in 2006 that almost ended his football career. According to the footballer himself, he also played for

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and Chicago Storm. França scored a goal in the last group stage round in

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for Chicago Fire Premier against

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. He was a player of Caperanese in 2009–10 season, which won Serie D promotion in 2010 from

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(Italian sixth highest level until 2014; top level of Liguria region).

Serie D clubs

França remained in the squad of Caperanese in

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season. In May 2011, he joined

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. França joined

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in 2014. França joined

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in 2015. In the following season, he joined fellow Serie D club

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. After winning the Serie D promotion playoffs with Triestina, França signed a new contract with the club on 7 July 2017. The promotion of Triestina was confirmed on 4 August. However, on 31 August 2017, he returned to

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for

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. França played twice for Triestina in

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and once at 2017–18 Coppa Italia Serie C.

Potenza

França was a player for

since mid-2017. The team won promotion to

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Group H winner. He also scored 25 league goals that season, as the second in the topscorer table of that group.

Seregno

On 17 August 2020 he moved to

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. In November he was sidelined due to a serious knee injury which required surgery.

RG Ticino

In August 2021, after having guided Seregno to Serie C as a head coach, França decided to accept an offer as a player for Serie D team RG Ticino. He successively left the club by the end of December and retired again from active football.

Coaching career

On 2 March 2021, whilst still recovering from injury, his club

announced to have promoted França as head coach of the

club. Under his tenure, Seregno managed to climb up the table and win promotion to

with one game still in hand, thus bringing back the Lombardian club to professional football for the first time since 1982. Despite his successes, on 24 July 2021 Seregno announced França was not confirmed as head coach for the club's upcoming Serie C campaign.

Honours

Player

;club *

group stage winner: 2015 (Cuneo) * Serie D group stage runner-up and promotion playoffs winner: 2017 (Triestina) *

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group stage runner-up (Liguria) and promotion playoffs winner: 2010 (Caperanese) ;individual *

Group A topscorer: 2015 (Cuneo) *

topscorer: 2010 (Caperanese)

Manager

Seregno *

Girone B:

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Personal life

Cassiano Bodini is his brother-in-law.

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Franca, Carlos 1980 births Living people Footballers from São Paulo (state) Brazilian men's footballers Brazilian football managers Brazilian expatriate men's footballers Chicago Fire U-23 players CE Europa footballers US Triestina Calcio 1918 players Potenza Calcio players US 1913 Seregno Calcio players Serie C players Serie D players Men's association football forwards Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States Expatriate men's footballers in Spain Expatriate men's footballers in Italy Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in the United States Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Spain Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Italy USD Lavagnese 1919 players