Bernardo Silva: The Portuguese Powerhouse Of Manchester City

Bernardo Silva

Bernardo Silva is one of the best footballers in the world today. His presence in the midfield for both Manchester City and Portugal is invaluable. In this post, we will find out more about Bernardo Silva. Let’s get started.

Bernardo Silva: All You Need To Know

Who is Bernardo Silva?

Bernardo Silva is considered one of the best attacking midfielders in the world. The footballer is famous for his stamina and hard work. The diminutiveness of the athlete is more than offset by his creativity, dexterity and foresight.

When was Bernardo Silva born?

Bernardo Silva was born on August 10, 1994 in Lisbon. Now every fourth Portuguese lives in the Lisbon agglomeration, it produces almost half of the GDP of the western-most European country.

Bernardo Silva calls football his life. From early childhood, if not by himself chasing the ball and scoring goals, Bernardo Silva was present at the stadium as a fan or, in extreme cases, watched the match on TV. Bernardo’s older relatives are football fans. On his maternal side, everyone supported Sporting, and on the paternal side, for Benfica.

Bernardo Silva: Football Career

At the age of six, two landmark events occurred in the life of the offspring of a family of fans: the boy entered an English-speaking school, thanks to which he now speaks it as well as Portuguese, and received an invitation to train at the Benfica football academy. However, the parents denied their son’s dream for a year – the club’s training ground was far from Silva’s home, and the family did not have the money to pay for Bernardo’s training.

On his 7th birthday, the future midfielder received a royal gift from his maternal grandfather. A man who supported Sporting paid for his grandson to train at the Benfica academy.

Benfica

At Benfica, Bernardo spent 12 years, consistently playing for the children’s, youth and second team of the club. Silva made his debut in the main team in May 2014 in a game against Porto and in the very first season, together with his teammates, he won the gold medals of the Portuguese football championship and won the country’s Cup.

Monaco

In the summer of 2014, for 3 years, Bernardo Silva played for the Ligue 1 side, Monaco – the first year on loan, and then signing a full contract with the team owned by Dmitry Rybolovlev. In 2017, largely thanks to the efforts of Bernardo Silva, the team of the small principality won the French championship for the first time in 17 years.

Manchester City

In the summer of 2017, Silva began playing for the English club Manchester City, and from the second season he became one of the team’s top players. By the start of the 2022 World Cup, Bernardo had played 273 games for Pep Guardiola’s team and scored 50 goals.

Bernardo Silva came to Manchester City when the Spaniard David Silva was already playing there . Football players with the same height (173 cm) were considered brothers by many fans, but there are no family ties between them. Nevertheless, a native of Lisbon emphasized that he was happy to consider David, the idol of his youth, as a half-brother.

In August 2022, Manchester City refused to sell the native of Portugal to the Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) club for 80 million euros. In November, it was reported that Barcelona intended to acquire Silva in the winter transfer window.

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National Team

In 2022, Bernardo Silva was a key part of the Portuguese team that played in the Qatar World Cup. At the 2022 FIFA World Cup, the Portuguese, along with Ghana, Uruguay and South Korea, were in group H. Having won two victories in the first two matches, Bernardo Silva and Portugal booked a spot in the knockout rounds. Portugal won their first knockout round match against Switzerland with ease but were upset by Morocco in the next round, ensuring that the great Cristiano Ronaldo will finish his legendary career without a world cup.

In addition to Bernardo Silva, several other players named Silva participated in the Qatar World Cup in 2022. António Silva, Benfica centre-back, played for Portugal, while Thiago Silva, Chelsea centre-back, played for Brazil. The age difference between these fellow namesakes is 

19 years.

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Bernardo Silva: Career Accomplishments

2013/14 – Champion of Portugal

2013/14 – Winner of the Portuguese Cup

2013/14 – Winner of the Portuguese League Cup

2015 – Silver medalist of the youth world championship

2016/17 – Champion of France

2017 – Bronze medalist of the Confederations Cup

2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21 – Football League Cup Winner

2017/18, 2018/19, 2020/21, 2021/22 – Champion of England

2018/19 – FA Cup Winner

2018/19 – UEFA Nations League Winner

2018, 2019 – FA Super Cup Winner

2019 – Winner of the Alan Hardecker Prize

2020 – Manchester City scorer of the season

Who is Bernardo Silva’s wife?

In May 2022, pleasant changes took place in Bernardo’s personal life. Bernardo Silva’s girlfriend Ines Tomaz agreed to marry him. The couple had dated for two years till then.The chosen one of Silva works with the modelling agency NXT Management. Instagram accounts (the social network is banned in the Russian Federation, it belongs to the Meta corporation, which is recognized as extremist in the Russian Federation) of lovers are filled with their joint photos.

Before Ines, the footballer had an affair with Alicia Verrando. The youngsters met when the girl came for an internship at the marketing department of the Monaco club, for which Bernardo Silva played at the time. It was Alicia that Silva’s teammate at Manchester City, Benjamin Mendy, had in mind when he jokingly claimed that the native of Lisbon loves him more than his girlfriend.

Why was Bernardo Silva suspended?

In November 2019, Bernardo was suspended for one match and fined £50,000 for a tweet in which he compared teammate Benjamin Mendy to the mascot of Spanish confectionery brand Conguitos. The comparison made by the Portuguese was considered racist, despite the objections of Benjamin himself.

Does Bernardo Silva have a pet?

Bernardo Silva has a French bulldog named John. Bernardo named the dog after friend and Manchester City teammate John Stones.

Why did Bernardo Silva skip Cristiano Ronaldo’s dinner party?

While in Qatar, Bernardo did not take advantage of the invitation of the Manchester United player and the world’s first person to reach 400 million followers on Instagram, Cristiano Ronaldo, to a dinner party. The event, organized in Doha by the captain of the Portuguese national team, was attended by Bruno Fernandes and Diogo Dalot. Silva explained his absence from the dinner by the fact that his family flew to Qatar and he wanted to spend time with his family.

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