Carlos Alberto Teixeira Mariano, known as Mariano (born 21 November 1975) is a former Portuguese

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), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

player. He played 9 seasons and 183 games in the

Primeira Liga The Primeira Liga (), also known as Liga Portugal Betclic for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Portugal and the highest level of the Portuguese football league system. Organised and supervised by the Liga ...

for Marítimo, Varzim, Salgueiros and

Penafiel Penafiel ( or ) is a Municipalities of Portugal, municipality and former bishopric (now a Latin Catholic titular see) in the Norte Region, Portugal, northern Portugal, Portuguese Porto District, district of Porto. Capital of the Tâmega Subregion ...

Club career

He made his

debut for Salgueiros on 27 August 1995 in a game against

União Leiria União Desportiva de Leiria (), commonly known as União de Leiria, is a Portuguese professional football club based in Leiria. Founded on 6 June 1966, it currently plays in the Liga Portugal 2, holding home matches at Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pes ...

Honours

;Portugal Under-18 *

UEFA European Under-18 Championship The UEFA European Under-19 Championship, or simply the Euro Under-19, is an annual football competition, contested by the European men's under-19 national teams of the UEFA member associations. Spain is the most successful team in this competit ...

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

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* 1975 births Footballers from Porto Living people Portuguese men's footballers Portugal men's youth international footballers Portugal men's under-21 international footballers S.C. Espinho players Liga Portugal 2 players S.C. Salgueiros players Primeira Liga players Varzim S.C. players C.S. Marítimo players F.C. Penafiel players C.D. Santa Clara players Zamora CF footballers Portuguese expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Spain Padroense F.C. players Men's association football midfielders Men's association football defenders {{Portugal-footy-defender-stub