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 wants Manchester United to follow Cristiano Ronaldo example in Champions League
manchestereveningnews.co.ukBruno Fernandes believes that, while Cristiano Ronaldo and Raphael Varane's experience of winning the Champions League is important in the competition, the rest of the squad must follow in their footsteps and be hungry enough to win it for the first time.
United return to European action on Wednesday night as they take on Atletico Madrid in the first-leg of their last 16 tie, with the competition now being the club's only opportunity of ending their five-year trophy drought this season.
Their chances of lifting the famous trophy seem remote considering the quality of competition they would have to overcome, with Ronaldo, Varane and Juan Mata being the only members of the squad to have done so before.
However, Fernandes has pointed out that they had to win it for the first time and that the rest of the team need to show the same desire in order to join them. "Cristiano won this competition many times and everyone knows in this kind of competition he has that smell for the goal, he has that smell for doing different things," he said. "In the same way we have Rapha that has won the Champions League also, I think four times.
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