Fredson Jorge Ramos Tavares (born 25 July 1982), known as Fock, is a

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footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who plays for

Batuque FC Batuque Futebol Clube ( Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC: ''Batuki Futibol Klubi'', São Vicente: ''Batúque Futebol Klube'') is a football club that plays in the São Vicente Premier Division in Cape Verde. It is based in the city of Mindelo on t ...

as a

goalkeeper In many team sports which involve scoring goals, the goalkeeper (sometimes termed goaltender, netminder, GK, goalie or keeper) is a designated player charged with directly preventing the opposing team from scoring by blocking or intercepting o ...

Club career

Born in São Vicente, Fock started playing for Real Júnior Tarrafal,

Sporting Clube da Praia Sporting Clube da Praia, short form: Sporting Praia ( Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK as well as Badiu: ''Sporting Klubi di Praia'') is a professional football club that plays in the Santiago South Premier Division in Cape Verde. It is bas ...

and

CS Mindelense Clube Sportivo Mindelense (Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: ''KS Mindelensi'' (''KS'' – ''Klubi Sporting''), São Vicente Crioulo: ''KS Mindelense'' (''KS'' – ''Klube or Clube (CS)'') is a football club that plays in the Prem ...

. In 2010, he had his first experience abroad, joining a host of compatriots at

AD Ceuta Asociación Deportiva Ceuta was a Spanish football team based in the autonomous city of Ceuta. Founded in 1996, its last season was 2011–12 in Segunda División B, holding home matches at ''Estadio Alfonso Murube'', with a capacity of 6,500. ...

in the Spanish third division and being the most utilised player in his position in his first and only season. Fock returned to his country in 2011, going on to spend two years with

International career

Fock won his first

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for

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in 2009. On 24 May of the following year he appeared in a friendly in

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with

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– who was preparing for the

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– playing the entire match as the minnows (ranked 117th) managed a 0–0 draw.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Fock 1982 births Living people People from São Vicente, Cape Verde Cape Verdean footballers Association football goalkeepers Sporting Clube da Praia players CS Mindelense players Batuque FC players Segunda División B players AD Ceuta footballers Girabola players Atlético Petróleos de Luanda players C.R. Caála players S.L. Benfica (Luanda) players Cape Verde international footballers 2013 Africa Cup of Nations players Cape Verdean expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Spain Expatriate footballers in Angola