Carlos Miguel Tavares de Oliveira (born 9 March 1993), known as Carlitos, is a Portuguese professional

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who plays as a

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for Gondomar.

Club career

Doxa

Born in

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, Carlitos started his senior career in 2012 with amateurs S.U. Sintrense. In the following year, aged 20, he signed for

Doxa Katokopias FC Doxa Katokopias FC () is a Cypriot professional football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word) ...

of the

Cypriot First Division The Cypriot First Division (), also known as the Cyprus League by Stoiximan for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Cyprus and the highest level of the Cypriot football league system. Operated by the Cyprus Fo ...

. Carlitos made his debut as a professional on 1 September 2013, coming in as a second-half substitute in a 2–0 home win against

Nea Salamis Famagusta FC Nea Salamis Famagusta FC (alternatively Nea Salamina, ) is a Cyprus, Cypriot professional Association football, football Sports club, club based in Ammochostos (also known by its Romanization of Greek, romanized name, Famagusta). It has been a r ...

. On 26 January of the following year he scored his first goal for the club, in a 2–1 loss at

Apollon Limassol FC Apollon Limassol FC (, ''Apollon Lemesou'') is a Cyprus, Cypriot sports club, based in Limassol. It has Association football, football, Apollon Limassol B.C., basketball and volleyball teams. Founded in 1954, Apollon FC currently plays in the Cyp ...

. In summer 2014, Carlitos joined fellow Cypriot top-flight team

AEL Limassol Athlitiki Enosi Lemesou () is a Cyprus, Cypriot sports club based in the city of Limassol, most famous for its football team. AEL Limassol also maintains a AEL Limassol B.C., men's and AEL Limassol B.C. (women), women's basketball teams, a wom ...

on a

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-long loan deal. He subsequently returned to Doxa.

APOEL and Anorthosis

On 9 June 2016, Carlitos moved to reigning Cypriot champions

APOEL FC APOEL FC (; short for Αθλητικός Ποδοσφαιρικός Όμιλος Ελλήνων Λευκωσίας, ''Athletikos Podosferikos Omilos Ellinon Lefkosias'', "Athletic Football Club of Greeks of Nicosia") is a Cypriot professio ...

on a three-year contract, but two months later he was sold to

Anorthosis Famagusta FC Anorthosis Famagusta (), commonly known as Anorthosis in English or Anorthosi in Greek, is a Cypriot football club, part of the Famagusta multi-sport club founded in 1911 in Varosha, Famagusta.

for a reported fee of €100,000.

Later career

In the following years, Carlitos represented

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(Polish

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(

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(Cypriot top tier) and

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(

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Honours

Kaisar *

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Pyunik *

: 2021–22

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Carlitos 1993 births Living people Black Portuguese sportspeople 21st-century Portuguese sportsmen Portuguese men's footballers Footballers from Almada Men's association football wingers Campeonato de Portugal (league) players G.D. Estoril Praia players S.U. Sintrense players Gondomar S.C. players Cypriot First Division players Doxa Katokopias FC players AEL Limassol players APOEL FC players Anorthosis Famagusta FC players Ekstraklasa players Wisła Płock players Kazakhstan Premier League players FC Kaisar players Armenian Premier League players Armenian First League players FC Pyunik players Super League Greece 2 players Portuguese expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Cyprus Expatriate men's footballers in Poland Expatriate men's footballers in Kazakhstan Expatriate men's footballers in Armenia Expatriate men's footballers in Greece Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Poland Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Kazakhstan Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Armenia Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Greece