Luiz Fernando da Silva Monte (born 14 April 1991 in

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), commonly known as Fernando Karanga, is a Brazilian

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who plays as a

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for

Henan Jianye Henan Songshan Longmen Football Club (), previously known as Henan Jianye Football Club (), is a professional football club that currently participates in the Chinese Super League under licence from the Chinese Football Association (CFA). The team ...

Career

Early career

Karanga began his professional career with Santa Cruz, but failed to cement a first team place and spent loan spells with

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and

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before joining Trindade on a permanent basis.

CSKA Sofia

Karanga signed a two-and-a-half-year deal with

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on 2 February 2017. On 29 April he scored a goal in the

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, netting the third in CSKA's 3–0 win over

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. Karanga began the 2017–18 season with a goal in the first league game against

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on 15 July, which ended in a 1–1 draw. Two weeks later he scored his first hat-trick in Bulgaria during a 6–2 away win over

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. Karanga continued his scoring run in the following games, scoring 12 goals in his first 11 league matches of the campaign. He also scored on his Bulgarian Cup debut against Botev Vratsa in the 1/8 finals. The Brazilian finished the year with a total of 23 goals in 30 league games for the Reds, in addition to 2 games and 1 goal in the Bulgarian Cup. He continued his fine performances during the first months of 2018, but sustained an injury in the second leg of a Bulgarian Cup match against

on 25 April (after a rough tackle), which sidelined him until the end of the season and was a factor in him finishing in second place for the top goalscorer award in the league. Karanga is the highest scoring foreign player (alongside

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) in the league fixtures of

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with three goals under his belt. He quickly emerged as a favourite with the CSKA Sofia fans.

Henan Jianye

On 12 July 2018, Karanga was transferred to

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side

for a reported transfer fee of $4 million. He suffered from serious

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in October after a match against

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, and received

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. He discharged from hospital in November, and returned to Brazil for further treatments and recoveries. In March 2019, he was loaned to

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. In July 2019, he recovered from previous incident, and rejoined Henan Jianye.

Career statistics

Honours

Club

;Santa Cruz *

Campeonato Pernambucano The Campeonato Pernambucano de Futebol (Pernambucan Football Championship, in English) is the football championship of Pernambuco state, Brazil, and is organized by the FPF. The first edition of the Campeonato Pernambucano was played in 1915, a ...

: 2011 ;Individual *Best forward in the

Bulgarian First League The First Professional Football League ( bg, Първа професионална футболна лига, Parva Profesionalna Futbolna Liga), also known as the Bulgarian First League or Parva Liga, currently known as the efbet League for spon ...

: 2017 *Best foreign player in the

: 2017

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* * * 1991 births Living people Brazilian footballers Brazilian expatriate footballers Campeonato Brasileiro Série B players Santa Cruz Futebol Clube players Boa Esporte Clube players Jeju United FC players K League 1 players Criciúma Esporte Clube players PFC CSKA Sofia players Henan Songshan Longmen F.C. players Nacional Atlético Clube (SP) players Chinese Super League players First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in South Korea Expatriate footballers in South Korea Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Bulgaria Expatriate footballers in Bulgaria Expatriate footballers in China Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in China Association football forwards {{Brazil-footy-forward-1990s-stub