Cláudio Adão

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Cláudio Adão

Cláudio Adão
Personal information
Full name	Cláudio Adalberto Adão
Date of birth	(1955-07-02) 2 July 1955 (age 66)
Place of birth	Volta Redonda (RJ) Brazil
Position(s)	Forward
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1972–1976	Santos
1977–1980	Flamengo	33	(17)
1980	Botafogo
1980	Áustria Viena
1980–1981	Fluminense
1982	Vasco da Gama
1982–1983	Al Ain
1983	Benfica
1983	Flamengo	0	(0)
1984	Botafogo
1984	Bangu
1985	Vasco da Gama
1985	Bangu
1986	Bahia
1987	Cruzeiro
1988	Botafogo
1988	Portuguesa
1989	Corinthians
1990	Sport Boys
1991	Bahia
1992–1993	Campo Grande
1993	Ceará
1993	Santa Cruz
1993	Volta Redonda
1994	Deportivo Sipesa
1994	Rio Branco
1995	Volta Redonda
1995	Desportiva
1996	Volta Redonda
National team
1975–1976	Brazil
Teams managed
1997	Sport Boys
2001	CSA
2006	Volta Redonda
2007	Metropolitano
2009
2010	Duquecaxiense
2012	Legião
2012	Atlético Paranaense (Beach soccer)
2013	Mixto
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Cláudio Adalberto Adão, or simply Cláudio Adão (born in Volta Redonda, 2 July 1955), is a former Brazilian football player. A gifted forward, Adão was the top-scorer of almost every championship he's played.

His first professional club was Santos FC, where he arrived in 1972. When Pelé left Santos in 1974, the club predicted a brilliant future ahead for Adão as Pelé's natural replacement. But they couldn't predict Adão would suffer a serious injury that would leave him off of the pitch for several months.

Physicians believed Adão's career to be prematurely ended when Flamengo's coach, Cláudio Coutinho (who was himself a physical fitness expert) asked his club to sign Adão.

Santos let Adão go and, at Flamengo, he underwent intensive physical therapy. The results were fantastic and Adão quickly became an idol. Not only at Flamengo, but in every other club he has played for until he retired, hundreds of goals later, at almost 40 years old.

In Brazil, Adão played for Botafogo, Vasco, Fluminense, Portuguesa-SP, Corinthians, Bangu, EC Bahia, Cruzeiro, Portuguesa-RJ, Campo Grande-RJ, Ceará SC, Santa Cruz, Volta Redonda FC, Rio Branco-RJ and Desportiva-ES.

His international career included FK Austria Wien, Al Ain FC, Benfica and Sport Boys.

Adão further represented Brazil in the 1989 edition of the World Cup of Masters, scoring a hat trick in the final against Uruguay.

After retirement, he managed several clubs, CSA, Ceará, Rio Branco-ES, and Volta Redonda FC, his current club. As Rio Branco-ES manager, he won the 2001 Campeonato Capixaba.^[1]

See also[]

• Felipe Adão his son

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