Fernandão

This article describes the Brazilian international. Another soccer player can be found under Fernandão (Soccer Player, 1987) .

Fernandão
Fernandão (right) with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva .
Personnel
Surname	Fernando Lúcio da Costa
birthday	March 18, 1978
place of birth	Goiânia ,  Brazil
date of death	June 7, 2014
Place of death	Aruanã ,  Brazil
size	190 cm
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
	Goiás EC
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1997-2001	Goiás EC	70 (17)
2001-2004	Olympique Marseille	61 0(5)
2004	→  Toulouse FC  (loan)	16 0(3)
2004-2008	Internacional Porto Alegre	100 (42)
2008-2009	Al-Gharafa	25 (10)
2009-2010	Goiás EC	14 0(4)
2010-2011	Sao Paulo FC	26 0(8)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2005	Brazil	1 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2012	Internacional Porto Alegre
1 Only league games are given.

Fernandão (actually Fernando Lúcio da Costa ; born March 18, 1978 in Goiânia ; † June 7, 2014 in Aruanã ) was a Brazilian football player and coach .

Player career

societies

The 1.90 m tall striker began his professional career in 1997 at Esporte Clube Goiás in his hometown. In 2001 he moved to France to Olympique Marseille and completed 61 games for the club. In 2003 he was loaned to Toulouse FC and returned to Brazil in 2004 to play for Internacional Porto Alegre .

With Internacional he reached 2nd place in the Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol in 2005 . In the same year he made his first appearance for the national team, in a game against Guatemala .

In 2006 he led Internacional to win the Copa Libertadores as team captain . Fernandão was the top scorer in the Copa and was named the best player of the final by scoring one goal and preparing another. In December 2006 he won the FIFA Club World Cup with Internacional . In 2008 he moved to the Qatari club Al-Gharafa .

After a season he returned to Brazil and still played for Goiás EC and São Paulo FC .

National team

In 2005 Fernandão was used once in a friendly against Guatemala in the Brazilian national football team .

Trainer / manager career

Fernandão retired from his active career in July 2011 and became Sports Director at Internacional Porto Alegre . After a year he was briefly head coach of the club after Dorival Júnior had been dismissed.

death

Fernandão died on June 7, 2014 at the age of 36 in a helicopter crash near his country estate. His administrator, a councilor from Palmeiras de Goiás and another passenger died with him .

title

Goiás

• Goiás State Championship : 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
• Series B : 1999
• Copa Centro-Oeste : 2000, 2001

Internacional

• National Championship of Rio Grande do Sul : 2005
• Copa Libertadores : 2006
• FIFA Club World Cup : 2006

Web links

• Fernandão in the database of weltfussball.de
• Profile at São Paulo FC
• Fernandão in the database of transfermarkt.de (player profile)
• Fernandão in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
• Fernandão in the database of transfermarkt.de (coach profile)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fernandao dies in an accident ; Sport1.de, June 7, 2014.
2. ↑ Augusto Diniz: Governador lamenta morte de Fernandão, primo e outros três em acidente ( Memento of July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ); Jornal O Hoje, June 7, 2014 (Portuguese).