Ulisses Garcia

Ulisses Garcia
Personal information
Full name Ulisses Alexandre Garcia Lopes
Date of birth (1996-01-11) 11 January 1996
Place of birth Almada, Portugal
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position Left back
Club information
Current team
 Werder Bremen
Number 20
Youth career
2009–2011 Servette Genève
2011–2014 Grasshopper
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014–2015 Grasshopper 2 (0)
2015– Werder Bremen 11 (0)
National team
2014 Swiss U19 3 (0)
2015- Swiss U21 3 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 25 October 2015.


Ulisses Alexandre Garcia Lopes (born 11 January 1996) is a Swiss footballer who currently plays as a left back for Werder Bremen.

Club career

Garcia is a youth exponent from Grasshopper Club Zürich. He made his Swiss Super League debut at 18 May 2014 against FC Sion. He played the full game, which ended in a 3-1 defeat in Sion.[1]

Werder Bremen

On 26 May 2015, Werder Bremen announced their signing of Garcia. Garcia joined the Bundesliga club on a three-year contract.[2] With Santiago García recovering from a long-standing injury, Ulisses Garcia went into the season as first-choice left back ahead of Janek Sternberg.[3] Upon Santiago García's return, Ulisses Garcia was mostly deployed in left midfield.[4]

International career

Born in Portugal to parents of Cape Verdean descent and raised in Switzerland, Garcia is eligible for all three countries. However, he has appeared exclusively for Switzerland in youth international, with 3 appearances for the Swiss U19s,[5] 3 with the U21 team.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "FC Sion vs. Grasshoppers - 18 May 2014 - Soccerway". soccerway.com. Retrieved 2014-08-21.
  2. ↑ "Werder sign Felix Wiedwald and Ulisses Garcia". werder.de. Werder Bremen. 26 May 2015. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
  3. ↑ "Gewinner und Verlierer bei Werder" [Winners and losers at Werder] (in German). Kicker. 4 August 2015. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
  4. ↑ "Ulisses Garcia" (in German). Kicker Online. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  5. ↑ Switzerland national under-21 football team
  6. ↑ http://www.uefa.com/under21/season=2017/teams/team=200128/index.html


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