Ricardo Alves Coelho da Silva (born 25 March 1993) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for Iranian club Tractor S.C. as a midfielder.

Born in Lourosa (Santa Maria da Feira), Alves played youth football with mainly FC Porto, which he represented from ages 16 to 19 in his second stint.

[5] In the summer of 2015, after a short spell in Romania with FC Rapid București,[6] Alves signed with NK Olimpija Ljubljana from the Slovenian PrvaLiga.

Alves and his team won the double in the 2017–18 campaign, with the player contributing a career-best ten league goals to the feat[7] and adding one and two assists in the final of the domestic cup against NK Aluminij (6–1 in Ljubljana).

[9] On 2 October 2020, his contract was terminated by mutual consent;[10] he remained in the country nonetheless, moving to Football National League side PFC Krylia Sovetov Samara in February 2021.