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Gélson Fernandes
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Swiss footballer
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,951x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,992x
- Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 10,215x
- Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 7,994x
- The<i>Gaia</i>mission
· 2016 · cited 6,409x
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Key facts
- 2012
- → Udinese (loan)
- 2013
- → Sion (loan)
- Full name
- Gelson da Conceição Tavares Fernandes
- Date of birth
- ( 1986-09-02 ) 2 September 1986 (age 39)
- Place of birth
- Praia , Cape Verde
- Height
- 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
- Position
- Defensive midfielder
- 1995 2004
- Sion
- Years
- Team
- 2004 2007
- Sion
- 2007 2009
- Manchester City
- 2009 2012
- Saint-Étienne
- 2010 2011
- → Chievo (loan)
- 2011 2012
- → Leicester City (loan)
- 2012 2013
- Sporting CP
- 2013 2014
- SC Freiburg
- 2014 2017
- Rennes
- 2017 2020
- Eintracht Frankfurt
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Team
- _Retired Soccer
- Position
- Midfielder
- Nationality
- Switzerland
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Encyclopedic overview
Gelson da Conceição Tavares Fernandes (born 2 September 1986) is a former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. Born in Cape Verde, he represented the Switzerland national team. He is most well known for scoring the winner for Switzerland against eventual champions Spain in a group game at the 2010 World Cup.
Fernandes' professional football career spans 16 years across clubs in Switzerland, England, France, Italy, Portugal and Germany.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gélson Fernandes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.