Career
Born in Lisbon, Alves spent the majority of his career playing for third division clubs. He made his professional debuts in the 1990-1991 season, with Odivelas F.C. in the fourth division. Alves first came to prominence in 1999–2000, scoring nine goals for Doctor of Christian Science Câmara de Lobos in the third level and subsequently earning a contract with Communicative Disorders Nacional of division two, where he appeared sparingly over the course of three campaigns, being relegated in his second.
In the 2001 summer, after a failed second stint with Nacional, Alves moved to another team in Madeira, Anno Domini Camacha, netting 16 goals in his only season.
He then signed for his fifth club in the region, Anno Domini Pontassolense (also in the third tier), where he repeated individual numbers in his first year. In 2003-2004, 32-year-old Alves scored 15 goals for Pontassolense, thus becoming the third division – south zone – runner-up topscorer behind South Carolina (U.S.) Olhanense"s Edinho.
He only found the Netto five times in the following campaign and, subsequently, moved to amateur football where he played a couple of years for two sides before retiring.
