Fábio Coentrão

Fábio Coentrão
Coentrão with Real Madrid in 2012
Personal information
Full name Fábio Alexandre da Silva Coentrão
Date of birth (1988-03-11) 11 March 1988
Place of birth Vila do Conde, Portugal
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Left-back, winger
Youth career
1999–2006 Rio Ave
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2005–2007 Rio Ave 29 (5)
2007–2011 Benfica 52 (2)
2008Nacional (loan) 16 (4)
2008Zaragoza (loan) 1 (0)
2009Rio Ave (loan) 16 (3)
2011–2018 Real Madrid 58 (1)
2015–2016Monaco (loan) 15 (3)
2017–2018Sporting CP (loan) 25 (1)
2018–2019 Rio Ave 21 (0)
2020–2021 Rio Ave 13 (2)
Total 246 (21)
International career
2005 Portugal U18 1 (0)
2006–2007 Portugal U19 10 (5)
2007 Portugal U20 7 (4)
2009 Portugal U21 7 (6)
2010 Portugal U23 1 (0)
2009–2017 Portugal 52 (5)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing  Portugal
UEFA European Championship
2012 Poland-Ukraine
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Fábio Alexandre da Silva Coentrão (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈfaβju kwẽˈtɾɐ̃w]; born 11 March 1988) is a Portuguese former professional footballer. Mainly a left-back, he also operated as a winger and occasionally as a defensive midfielder.

After starting playing professionally with Rio Ave, he signed for Benfica at 19, going on to be loaned several times before becoming an important member of the first team as a left-back. He joined Real Madrid in 2011, and retired ten years later at his first club.

A Portugal international over eight years, Coentrão represented the nation in two World Cups and Euro 2012.