Tiago Pereira Cardoso
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Tiago Pereira Cardoso | ||
| Date of birth | 7 April 2006 | ||
| Place of birth | Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg | ||
| Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||
| Position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Borussia Mönchengladbach | ||
| Number | 42 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –2015 | CS Sanem | ||
| 2015–2022 | Fola Esch | ||
| 2022–2023 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2023– | Borussia Mönchengladbach II | 24 | (0) |
| 2025– | Borussia Mönchengladbach | 5 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2019 | Luxembourg U15 | 1 | (0) |
| 2021– | Luxembourg U17 | 9 | (0) |
| 2023– | Luxembourg | 7 | (0) |
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 20:00, 13 March 2026 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 22:08, 26 March 2026 (UTC) | |||
Tiago Pereira Cardoso (born 7 April 2006) is a Luxembourgish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Bundesliga club Borussia Mönchengladbach and the Luxembourg national team.
A youth product of CS Sanem and Fola Esch, Pereira Cardoso joined the youth academy of Borussia Mönchengladbach in 2022.[1]
On 1 March 2025, Pereira Cardoso was given the chance to start against 1. FC Heidenheim, after both the starting goalkeeper Moritz Nicholas, and Jonas Omlin were out, injured and suspended in the previous match day, respectively. Borussia Mönchengladbach won the game 3-0 and Pereira Cardoso set the new record by becoming the youngest foreign goalkeeper in Bundesliga history.[2]
International career
Born in Luxembourg, Pereira Cardoso is of Portuguese descent.[3] He is a youth international for Luxembourg, having played up to the Luxembourg U17s. He was called up to the senior Luxembourg national team for a set of matches in June 2023.[4] He debuted with the senior Luxembourg team, coming on as a halftime substitute, in a friendly 0–1 loss with Malta on 9 June 2023.[5]