Franclim Pereira da Silva Maia Carvalho (born 30 March 1987) is a Portuguese football

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and former player who played as a winger. He is the current assistant manager of

S.C. Braga Sporting Clube de Braga (), commonly known as Sporting de Braga or just Braga, is a Portuguese sports club from the city of Braga. Best known for the men's professional football team playing in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portuguese foo ...

Career

Born in

Miranda do Corvo Miranda do Corvo (), officially the Town of Miranda do Corvo (), is a town and a Concelho, municipality in the Portugal, Portuguese Coimbra District, district of Coimbra, with an area of and 2011 population of 13,098 inhabitants. History The fi ...

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, Carvalho was a player for lowly local sides, and retired at the age of 24 at Eirense to become an assistant coach at the club. In 2013, he was also an assistant at Penelense, before leaving in the following year to

Paços de Ferreira Paços de Ferreira () is a city in the Porto District, in the north of Portugal. The population of the city in 2011 was 7491, while its municipality had 56,340 inhabitants, in an area of 70.99 km². Sometimes referred to as the ''Capital do ...

, as a scout. Carvalho worked at Nogueirense also as a scout, and became an assistant manager at Académica de Coimbra in 2015. He became a fitness coach at Famalicão in the following year, before moving abroad in 2017 to work as a fitness trainer at South Korean side

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. Back to Portugal in the 2017 summer, Carvalho was an assistant at

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's under-17 and under-19 squads, before moving to

Belenenses SAD B-SAD was a Portuguese football club currently based in Almada, founded on 30 June 2018 as an independent entity. An offshoot of Clube de Futebol Os Belenenses, they played four seasons in the Primeira Liga, being relegated to the Liga Portugal ...

under the same role in January 2020. On 11 January 2022, he replaced Filipe Cândido at the helm of the first team, signing a 18-month contract four days later. On his professional debut on 13 January, the side lost 1–0 at Famalicão, and finished the season relegated in last place; he then quoted the late manager Vítor Oliveira that "a new life begins a month or two from now". On 19 May 2022, Carvalho left Belenenses SAD to be Artur Jorge's assistant on a two-year deal back at Braga.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Carvalho, Franclim 1987 births Living people People from Miranda do Corvo Sportspeople from Coimbra District Portuguese men's footballers Men's association football wingers Portuguese football managers Primeira Liga managers B-SAD managers Portuguese expatriate football managers Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in South Korea 21st-century Portuguese sportsmen