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.
straight to your inbox every day for freeBruno Fernandes has offered some advice to youngsters Hannibal Mejbri and Shola Shoretire after they were promoted to the Manchester United first-team squad.
Mejbri , 18, and Shoretire, 17, have been pictured in United training recently and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer confirmed on Friday that they will continue their development under his watch. "The young kids, we’ve moved Shola up with us, Hannibal will join us and we’ll keep them with us for a while," he said in his press conference ahead of Sunday’s game against West Bromwich Albion. "It’s the next step in their development, we’ve got to take the hit that when they play for the reserves they have to travel by themselves.
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