[7] Carvalho was born in 1972 in the city of Lourenço Marques (now Maputo), which was by then the main administrative center of the Portuguese overseas territory of Mozambique.

[13] The election results were contested by Carvalho with allegations of irregularities as well as requests for a recount having been rejected by the General Assembly President of the club at the time, Lino de Castro.

[15] Four years later, on 4 March 2017, he was re-elected with 86.13% of the votes, defeating Pedro Madeira Rodrigues, who got 9.49%,[16] in a total of 18,755 voters, a record in the club's history.

Financially, Carvalho recovered the near-bankruptcy club by negotiating a debt restructuring plan with a banking institution within the first month.

[23] These and other subjects were a matter of discussion in several international conferences called "The Future of Football" organized yearly during Carvalho's presidency.

[28] As a result of several incidents throughout his mandates as well as negative results in football at the end of the 2017–18 season, including the unilateral termination of contract by nine footballers after a violent invasion of the Academia de Alcochete by a mob of Sporting supporters,[29] Carvalho was dismissed as president after 71.36% of club members voted him out in a general assembly held at Altice Arena on 23 June 2018.

[5] On 24 June 2018, Sousa Cintra replaced him as acting president of Sporting Clube de Portugal – Futebol, SAD.

[31][32] On 11 November 2018, Carvalho was detained at home for suspicion of giving permission to the violent attack by a mob of protesting Sporting supporters on players and manager of the men's main football team at the club's training facilities in Alcochete, on 15 May 2018.

[33] On 15 November, the Portuguese Public Ministry charged Carvalho with terrorism and 98 other crimes, which include aggravated threat (40), kidnapping (38), qualified offence to physical integrity (19), and possession of prohibited weapon.

[42] In September, he married Liliana Almeida, a fellow contestant he had met in the reality show and former member of the girls band Nonstop.