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{{short description|Portuguese footballer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2014}}
{{Use British English|date=November 2014}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Calita
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| fullname = Carlos Alberto Souto Maior Silva Batista
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1972|12|20|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Lisbon]], Portugal<ref group="note">Per [https://www.foradejogo.net/player.php?player=197212200001&language=2 ForaDeJogo]. Certain other sources [https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/sport/sport-opinion/jim-brown-big-rons-impulse-6173974 1],  [https://www.11v11.com/players/carlita-batista-39524/ 2] suggest he was born in [[Angola]].</ref>
| height = {{convert|1.75|m|ftin|0|abbr=on}}
| position = [[Midfielder]]
| currentclub =
| youthyears1 = 1984–1990
| youthclubs1 = [[Imortal DC|Imortal]]
| years1 = 1990–1994
| years2 = 1994–1995
| years3 = 1995–1996
| years4 = 1996
| years5 = 1997
| years6 = 1997–1998
| years7 = 1998–2000
| years8 = 2000
| years9 = 2000–2001
| years10 = 2001–2002
| years11 = 2003
| years12 = 2004–2006
| years13 = 2006–2008
| years14 = 2008–2009
| years15 = 2009–2011
| years16 = 2011–2012
| years17 = 2013–2014
| years18 = 2015–2016
| years19 = 2016–2017
| clubs1 = [[Imortal DC|Imortal]]
| clubs2 = [[S.C. Farense|Farense]]
| clubs3 = [[Coventry City F.C.|Coventry City]]
| clubs4 = → [[Boavista F.C.|Boavista]] (loan)
| clubs5 = [[C.D. Nacional|Nacional]]
| clubs6 = [[Imortal DC|Imortal]]
| clubs7 = [[Louletano D.C.|Louletano]]
| clubs8 = [[Lusitano V.R.S.A.|Lusitano]]
| clubs9 = [[CDR Quarteirense|Quarteirense]]
| clubs10 = [[União Desportiva Messinense|Messinense]]
| clubs11 = [[Lusitano V.R.S.A.|Lusitano]]
| clubs12 = Serrano
| clubs13 = São Marcos
| clubs14 = [[Imortal DC|Imortal]]
| clubs15 = Serrano
| clubs16 = São Marcos
| clubs17 = Guia
| clubs18 = Guia
| clubs19 = Santaclarense
| caps1 =
| caps2 = 7
| caps3 = 0
| caps4 = 4
| caps5 = 9
| caps6 = 26
| caps7 = 44
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| goals2 = 1
| goals3 = 0
| goals4 = 0
| goals5 = 1
| goals6 = 4
| goals7 = 4
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| goals11 = 1
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| club-update = 18 May 2003
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'''Carlos Alberto Souto Maior Silva Batista''' (born 20 December 1972), commonly known as '''Calita''', is a Portuguese former [[Association football|footballer]] who played as a [[midfielder]].
==Football career==
Calita started his career with [[Imortal DC]]. He had only played in seven [[Primeira Liga]] games for [[S.C. Farense]] when he was purchased by [[Coventry City F.C.|Coventry City]] on 5 July 1995, after failing a trial at [[Blackburn Rovers F.C.|Blackburn Rovers]], for a fee reported as ranging from [[Pound sterling|£]]125,000–350,000.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.footballsquads.co.uk/eng/1995-1996/faprem/coventry.htm|title=Coventry City|publisher=Football Squads|accessdate=27 June 2010}}</ref> He never broke into the first team with the [[Premier League]] club and finished [[1995–96 Primeira Divisão|1995–96]] back in his country with [[Boavista F.C.|Boavista]], also in the top division.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.footballsquads.co.uk/oldsqds/portugal/1995-1996.htm|title=Boavista|publisher=Football Squads|accessdate=27 June 2010}}</ref>
During his short spell in England, he was known as '''Carlita'''.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Brown |first1=Jim |title=Jim Brown: Big Ron's impulse buy didn't stay at Coventry City long |url=https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/sport/sport-opinion/jim-brown-big-rons-impulse-6173974 |accessdate=15 January 2019 |publisher=[[Coventry Telegraph]] |date=12 October 2013}}</ref> He was the first Portuguese footballer to be signed by an English [[Premier League]] club.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Nascimento |first1=Hélio |title=Calita, o pioneiro português que nunca chegou a jogar na Premier League |url=https://www.dn.pt/desporto/interior/calita-o-pioneiro-portugues-que-nunca-chegou-a-jogar-na-premier-league-8702297.html |accessdate=15 January 2019 |publisher=[[Diário de Notícias]] |date=13 August 2017 |language=Portuguese}}</ref> But he later revealed that he joined Coventry City after having been made false salary promises, and he left the club because his actual income was barely enough to live on.<ref>{{cite news |title=Antiga promessa do futebol já não lamenta o passado |url=https://www.cmjornal.pt/mais-cm/domingo/detalhe/antiga-promessa-do-futebol-ja-nao-lamenta-o-passado |accessdate=15 January 2019 |publisher=[[Correio da Manhã (Portugal)|Correio da Manhã]] |date=25 March 2012 |language=Portuguese}}</ref>
From 1997 until his retirement two decades later, Calita never played higher than the [[Portuguese Second Division|third level of Portuguese football]] and predominantly competed in the second regional division, with most of the teams hailing from the [[Algarve]] region.
==Notes==
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==References==
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==External links==
*{{ForaDeJogo}}
*{{Soccerbase|8889|Carlita}}
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[[Category:1972 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Portuguese men's footballers]]
[[Category:Men's association football midfielders]]
[[Category:Primeira Liga players]]
[[Category:Segunda Divisão players]]
[[Category:Imortal D.C. players]]
[[Category:C.D. Nacional players]]
[[Category:S.C. Farense players]]
[[Category:Louletano D.C. players]]
[[Category:Boavista F.C. players]]
[[Category:Coventry City F.C. players]]
[[Category:Portuguese expatriate men's footballers]]
[[Category:Expatriate men's footballers in England]]
[[Category:Footballers from Lisbon]]