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Carlos Alexandre Fortes Alhinho (10 January 1949 – 31 May 2008) was a Portuguese professional football central defender and manager.
He was one of the few players in his generation to have played for the Big Three in Portugal – Sporting CP, Benfica and FC Porto. (2006). 9789728998264, QuidNovi. ISBN 9789728998264 Over 15 seasons, he amassed Primeira Liga totals of 337 matches and 17 goals.
Prior to his death in 2008, Alhinho worked as a coach for more than 20 years, in numerous clubs and countries.
After three further seasons in Coimbra, Alhinho signed for Sporting CP, winning his first national championship in 1973–74 and never missing a game in two of his three seasons. In 1975 he moved to La Liga side Real Betis but, unsettled, returned to his country of adoption a mere months after, joining FC Porto.
In the next five years, Alhinho would be mainly linked contractually to S.L. Benfica, winning another league in 1976–77. During his tenure, however, he also played in Belgium with R.W.D. Molenbeek– rejoining his former club after one season – and in the North American Soccer League for the New England Tea Men, loaned.
Aged 33, Alhinho left Benfica, played three more years in the Portuguese top flight, with Portimonense S.C. and S.C. Farense (without ever suffering relegation) and retired from football. He immediately started coaching, with modest Lusitano GC; in the following 22 years he managed teams in Portugal (two in the top division), Morocco, Angola, Qatar, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.
In one of his first coaching jobs, in 1985, Alhinho managed the Cape Verdean national team, Cape Verde Islands – List of International Matches; at RSSSF working with Angola nine years later and again in 2000. Goal Programme – Federação Caboverdiana de Futebol – 2007 (Goal Programme – Cape Verde Football Federation – 2007); FIFA, 24 August 2009 (in French)
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