Bruno Miguel Borges Fernandes (born 8 September 1994) is a Portuguese footballer who plays for Primeira Liga club Sporting CP and the Portugal national team as a midfielder. Fernandes started his career at Serie B side Novara Calcio and soon featured for Udinese and Sampdoria in Serie A.
In 2017, he signed with Sporting CP where he established himself as one of the best players in the Primeira Liga. He was named the LPFP Primeira Liga Player of the Year in both 2017–18 and 2018–19. In the latter season, he also helped Sporting win the Taça de Portugal. A senior international since 2017, Fernandes represented Portugal at the 2016 Summer Olympics and 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Bruno Fernandes admits he wanted to quit football and cried when he got Man Utd move
mirror.co.ukBruno Fernandes has admitted he was once so disillusioned with football that he wanted to quit the game entirely. The Portuguese midfielder began his career in Italy after moving there aged 17.
It was there, whilst playing for Udinese, that he got extremely homesick and lonely, which forced him to reconsider his career path.
But Fernandes credits his "obsessive analysis" and "extreme" personality for helping him work through the bad patch to realise his dream. "I needed that mentality to survive," he told the Players' Tribune. "It’s not enough just to be talented, or to work hard, or to be mentally strong.
You have to combine absolutely everything. You have to live football, completely." Discussing his time in Serie A, he said: "I was all
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