Edu (soccer player, 1981)
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 Edu (2011)
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Eduardo Gonçalves de Oliveira | |
| birthday | November 30, 1981 | |
| place of birth | São Paulo , Brazil | |
| size | 185 cm | |
| position | Storm | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1996-1999 | Guarani FC | |
| 2000 | FC Santos | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 2001 | Sao Paulo FC | |
| 2002 | Náutico capibaribe | |
| 2003 | CRAC Catalao | |
| 2003-2006 | VfL Bochum | 63 (16) |
| 2006-2007 | 1. FSV Mainz 05 | 14 (1) |
| 2007-2009 | Suwon Samsung Bluewings | 70 (25) |
| 2010-2013 | FC Schalke 04 | 43 (5) |
| 2011–2012 | → Beşiktaş Istanbul (loan) | 21 (3) |
| 2012 | → SpVgg Greuther Fürth (loan) | 10 (1) |
| 2013 | Liaoning Hongyun | 23 (14) |
| 2014 | FC Tokyo | 30 (11) |
| 2015 | Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors | 20 (11) |
| 2015-2016 | Hebei China Fortune | 15 (12) |
| 2016-2017 | Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors | 32 (11) |
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1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2015/16 |
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Edu , real name Eduardo Gonçalves de Oliveira (born November 30, 1981 in São Paulo ), is a former Brazilian soccer player . The striker has been under contract with the South Korean club Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors since July 2016 .
Career
Edu played for the youth teams of Guarani FC and FC Santos . He then played for São Paulo FC and Náutico Capibaribe . In the summer of 2003 he was hired by VfL Bochum as a defender from the Brazilian second division club CRAC Catalao , but after a while he was converted into a striker. In one of his first games, still as a defensive man, he made a serious mistake in the closing stages of the UEFA Cup game on September 30, 2004 against Standard Liège , which led to the 1-1 equalizer and the elimination of the Bochum team. Nonetheless, Edu developed into one of the audience favorites in the period that followed. When it came to retraining from defensive to offensive, Edus then coach Peter Neururer said: “We knew that he had incredible abilities that we didn't want to give away. I couldn't bring him back. In order to protect him and the team, I put him in front because I was sure that he could do it. ”However , he only made his breakthrough in Bochum in 2005/06 in the 2nd Bundesliga . Edu made 33 appearances, which only Daniel Imhof succeeded in this season . In addition, the striker was the team's top scorer with twelve goals. He was an important part of the immediate return to the first division. When coach Marcel Koller signed Theofanis Gekas for the VfL attack , Edu decided to switch.
After 63 games and 16 goals for VfL Bochum , he was sold to 1. FSV Mainz 05 in the summer of 2006 , for whom he scored his only goal in his first game. After all, the strong attacker was rarely used and was only the fourth striker behind Ranisav Jovanovic , Imre Szabics and Petr Ruman . Without having asserted himself, Edu left Mainz after six months to join the South Korean club Suwon Samsung Bluewings . Under the former Bundesliga player and coach Bum-Kun Cha , Edu rose to be a crowd favorite and became a mainstay of the club. With the Bluewings he finally became South Korean champion in 2008 and national cup winner in 2009.
In January 2010 Edu was signed by FC Schalke 04 . The Brazilian signed a three and a half year contract with the “Knappen”. He scored his first goal for his new club on March 12, 2010 in the home game against VfB Stuttgart . Until the end of the season, Edu was mostly a substitute, but he made regular appearances. The following season, the club strengthened in the storm by players such as Raúl González and Klaas Jan Huntelaar . Nevertheless, the Brazilian managed to keep getting stakes. On April 5, 2011, he was in the starting line-up for the first time in a UEFA Champions League game. In the 5-2 away win at Inter Milan , the striker scored his first two goals in the highest European club competition.
After Edu hardly came to use under Ralf Rangnick , he was loaned to the Turkish first division club Beşiktaş Istanbul in early September 2011 for the 2011/12 season. He scored his first goal for Beşiktaş in the 5-1 win over Maccabi Tel Aviv in the Europa League on September 15, 2011.
In August 2012 it was awarded to SpVgg Greuther Fürth until December 31, 2012 . After the loan contract expired, he returned to FC Schalke 04.
On February 28, 2013 Edu moved to the Chinese first division club Liaoning Hongyun . After a season he left Liaoning Hongyun again and moved to FC Tokyo , with whom he plays in the J. League Division 1 . After a year in Japan , Edu joined the South Korean club Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors in 2015, which he left again in summer 2015: He joined the Chinese club Hebei China Fortune for one year . However, Edu returned to Jeonbuk in July 2016 , where he ended his career in 2017.
successes
Vfl Bochum
- Master of the Second Bundesliga : 2006
Suwon Samsung Bluewings
- South Korean champion : 2008
- South Korean Cup Winner: 2009
FC Schalke 04
Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
Play style
Edu's style of play is not considered very Brazilian . Positive qualities are his good header game and his dynamism . During a Champions League game against Inter Milan in April 2011, commentator Wolff-Christoph Fuss referred to him as the “Brazilian steam driver”, alluding to Edu's physically intense football game.
Web links
- Official player website
- Edu in the database of kicker.de
- Edu in the database of fussballdaten.de
- Edu in the database of weltfussball.de
- Edu in the database of transfermarkt.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Schalkes Edu in portrait: The retrained from April 6, 2011 on 11 freunde.de
- ↑ a b Kader VfL Bochum 2005/06 ( Memento from September 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on fussballdaten.de
- ↑ Edu is coming! Altintop and Asamoah can go from December 28, 2009 on bild.de.
- ↑ Match statistics FC Schalke 04 - VfB Stuttgart on fussballdaten.de
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Edu changes to Besiktas Istanbul on loan
- ↑ kicker.de: Match report Beşiktaş Istanbul - Maccabi Tel Aviv (accessed on September 16, 2011)
- ↑ Fürth borrows striker Edu von Schalke 04 until the end of the year ( Memento from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on August 31, 2012)
- ↑ FC Schalke 04 terminates contract with Edu (accessed on February 28, 2013)
- ↑ All About the Ball , spox.com, accessed July 21, 2016
- ↑ Champions League: FC Schalke 04 against Inter Milan today live on Sat.1 on tv-kult.com
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Edu |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gonçalves de Oliveira, Eduardo (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Brazilian soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 30, 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | São Paulo , Brazil |