Bernardo Morgado Gaspar Lopes (born 30 July 1993) is a professional

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 lea ...

who plays for Gibraltarian club Lincoln Red Imps as a

central defender In the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to stop attacks during the game and prevent the opposition from scoring. Defenders fall into four main categories: centre-backs, full-backs, sweepers ...

. Born and raised in

Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. Featuring Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it share ...

, Lopes represents

Gibraltar Gibraltar ( , ) is a British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory and British overseas cities, city located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Bay of Gibraltar, near the exit of the Mediterranean Sea into the A ...

at international level.

International career

After spending 6 years playing in Gibraltar, he became a British Overseas Territory citizen and naturalised for Gibraltar in time to be called up for friendlies against

Grenada Grenada is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea. The southernmost of the Windward Islands, Grenada is directly south of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and about north of Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidad and the So ...

and the

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in March 2022.

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Portuguese League profile
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lopes, Bernardo 1993 births Living people Footballers from Cascais Gibraltarian men's footballers Gibraltar men's international footballers Portuguese men's footballers Portuguese emigrants to Gibraltar Gibraltarian people of Portuguese descent Men's association football defenders Liga Portugal 2 players Segunda Divisão players Louletano D.C. players C.S. Marítimo players Lincoln Red Imps F.C. players Portuguese expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Gibraltar Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Gibraltar 21st-century Portuguese sportsmen 21st-century British sportsmen