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Luiz Adriano
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Brazilian association footballer
Key facts
- 2007
- Brazil U20
- 2024
- Vitória
- Full name
- Luiz Adriano de Souza da Silva
- Date of birth
- ( 1987-04-12 ) 12 April 1987 (age 39)
- Place of birth
- Porto Alegre , Brazil
- Height
- 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
- Position
- Striker
- 2004 2005
- Internacional
- Years
- Team
- 2006 2007
- Internacional
- 2007 2015
- Shakhtar Donetsk
- 2015 2017
- Milan
- 2017 2019
- Spartak Moscow
- 2019 2022
- Palmeiras
- 2022 2023
- Antalyaspor
- 2023 2024
- Internacional
- 2014 2015
- Brazil
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Brazil
- Place of birth
- Porto Alegre
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- Portuguese
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- E.C. Vitória
- Position played
- forward
- Country for sport
- Brazil
- Mass
- 71
- Image
- Luiz Adriano de Souza da Silva Spartak.jpg
- Height
- 183
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- date of birth
- 1987-04-12
- Commons category
- Luiz Adriano
- sport number
- 10
- total goals in career
- 0
- number of matches played/races/starts
- 1
- start of work period
- 2006-00-00
- social media followers
- 50210
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Encyclopedic overview
Luiz Adriano de Souza da Silva (born 12 April 1987), or simply Luiz Adriano ( Brazilian Portuguese: [luˈiz ˌadɾiˈɐnu]), is a Brazilian former professional footballer.
Born in Porto Alegre, he began his career at hometown club Internacional before joining Shakhtar Donetsk in 2007 for €3 million. He became an integral member of the Ukrainian club, becoming the all-time leading goalscorer for Shakhtar in October 2014 and receiving his first call-up to the Brazil national team the same month.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Luiz Adriano” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.