Carlos Alberto Gomes

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Carlos Alberto
Full name	Carlos Alberto Gomes de Jesus
Date of birth	December 11, 1984 (1984-12-11) (age 23)
Place of birth	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position	Attacking Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Botafogo
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2000-2004 2004-2005 2005-2007 2007 2007-2008 2008 2008-present	Fluminense FC Porto Corinthians → Fluminense (loan) Werder Bremen → São Paulo (loan) → Botafogo (loan)	82 (12) 28 (12) 42 (21) 20 0(6) 02 0(0) 00 0(0) 00 0(0)
National team
2005	Brazil	05 0(0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 9 March 2008. * Appearances (Goals)

Carlos Alberto, full name Carlos Alberto Gomes de Jesus , born December 11, 1984, in Rio de Janeiro, is a Brazilian attacking midfielder.

Carlos Alberto started his career with Fluminense, where he won the Campeonato Carioca on 2002. He moved on to FC Porto under coach José Mourinho in January 2004. There, he won the Portuguese Championship and the UEFA Champions League, where he scored the first goal in the 3:0 rout of AS Monaco.

In the beginning of 2005, he moved to Corinthians (who signed a partnership with MSI, where he won the Brasileirão in 2005 being one of the major players of the team. In 2006 Corinthians did poorly on all competitions and Carlos Alberto lost a lot of room in the team and after a long fight with Corinthians manager, Emerson Leão, which peaked at a Copa Sul-Americana game against Club Atlético Lanús, he stated he would never again play in Corinthians as long as Leão remained as manager. He has since been loaned out to Fluminense from January to December 2007.

He joined Werder Bremen in July 2007 with a deal of € 7.8M which was a club record of Werder Bremen.^[1]^[2]

Carlos Alberto has 5 caps with the Brazilian national team.

In January 2008 he was loaned out to São Paulo Futebol Clube, until July.