Diego Alves Carreira, known as Diego Alves, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.

A penalty kick is a method of restarting play in association football, in which a player is allowed to take a single shot at the goal while it is defended only by the opposing team's goalkeeper from. It is awarded when an offence punishable by a direct free kick is committed by a player in their own penalty area. The shot is taken from the penalty spot, which is 11 m from the goal line and centered red between the touch lines.