Mario Jardel

Mario Jardel
Mário Jardel training with the Newcastle United Jets (2008)
Personnel
Surname	Mário Jardel Almeida Ribeiro
birthday	18th September 1973
place of birth	Fortaleza ,  Brazil
size	188 cm
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1990-1994	CR Vasco da Gama	39 0(22)
1995-1996	Gremio Porto Alegre	73 0(67)
1996-2000	FC Porto	125 (130)
2000-2001	Galatasaray Istanbul	24 0(22)
2001-2003	Sporting Lisbon	49 0(53)
2003	Ancona Calcio	4 00(0)
2004	Bolton Wanderers	12 00(3)
2004-2005	Newell's Old Boys	3 00(0)
2005	Deportivo Alavés	1 00(0)
2005-2006	Goiás EC	4 00(1)
2006	SC Beira Mar	12 00(3)
2007	Anorthosis Famagusta	7 00(3)
2007-2008	Newcastle United Jets	11 00(3)
2008-2009	Criciúma EC	16 00(4)
2009-2010	Ferroviário AC	1 00(1)
2010	Cherno More Varna	8 00(1)
2011	Rio Negro-AM	17 00(5)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1996-2001	Brazil	10 00(1)
1 Only league games are given.

Mário Jardel Almeida Ribeiro (born September 18, 1973 in Fortaleza ) is a former Brazilian football player who also has Portuguese citizenship . In Brazil he is known as Jardel , in Europe more as Mário Jardel . He played in the classic center forward position .

His younger brother George Henrique Almeida Ribeiro , or George Jardel for short , is also an active soccer player and spent most of his career in Portugal.

Career

society

Jardel comes from the youth of Grêmio Porto Alegre . His professional career began in 1993 at SE Vasco da Gama. After he returned to his hometown club and won the Copa Libertadores with it , he moved to Europe in 1996 for the Portuguese first division club FC Porto . In Porto, Jardel was three times champion and twice cup winner in four years. He himself had a large share of Porto's successes with a total of 130 goals in 125 league games, was top scorer in the Portuguese league four times in a row and also Europe's top scorer in the 1998/99 season . After four years he went to Galatasaray Istanbul in Turkey for a transfer fee of 16 million euros .

In 2001 he moved back to Portugal. With Sporting Lisbon , Jardel became champions and cup winners in 2002 . The first half of the 2003/04 season he spent with the Bolton Wanderers in the English Premier League , the second half of the then first division club Ancona Calcio in Italy , the well he does not avoid relegation from Serie A could save.

The striker returned to South America for Newell's Old Boys ( Argentina ) in summer 2004 , where he stayed until summer 2005, with a four-week interlude with CD Alavés in Spain . Before moving to Australia in August 2007 for Newcastle United Jets , Jardel was under contract with Goiás EC in Brazil, with the Portuguese first division club Beira Mar and the Cypriot first division club Anorthosis Famagusta . Then Jardel returned to his native Brazil and played after a brief stint at Criciúma EC for Ferroviário AC .

Jardel was the top scorer in European football leagues in 1999, 2000 and 2002; due to the different UEFA coefficients , however, he was only officially awarded the Golden Boot title in 1999 and 2002. He was the top scorer in the Portuguese first division five times and in 2000 also the best scorer in the UEFA Champions League .

National team

Jardel made ten games for the Seleção and scored one goal. For the 2002 World Cup , however, he was not taken into account.

successes

society

• Copa Libertadores Winner: 1995
• Portuguese Super Cup winner with FC Porto : 1996, 1998, 1999
• Portuguese champions with FC Porto : 1997, 1998, 1999
• Portuguese cup winner with FC Porto : 1998, 2000
• UEFA Supercup winner with Galatasaray Istanbul : 2000
• Portuguese champions with Sporting Lisbon : 2002
• Portuguese cup winner with Sporting Lisbon : 2002
• Argentine champion with Newell's Old Boys : 2004
• Cypriot cup winner with Anorthosis Famagusta : 2007

Personally

• Portugal's Footballer of the Year : 2002
• Copa Libertadores top scorer: 1995
• Top scorer in the Portuguese league: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002
• Golden shoe as the best striker in Europe: 1999, 2002
• UEFA Champions League top scorer: 2000

Others

Top European clubs like Real Madrid have been interested in Jardel throughout his career . However, he was late for appointments or did not keep to agreements, so that a move to a large European club never came to fruition. Instead, his way of life left him depressed, which led to obesity. Both of these led to the fact that from 2003 he stopped playing for big clubs.

On September 25, 2004, the Portuguese sports newspaper A Bola published an investigative report that revealed that Jardel was involved in the drug and red light scene. Jardel confirmed the veracity of this report.

At the invitation of a Turkish company, he was last seen alongside Pierre van Hooijdonk on April 26, 2008 as a guest at the Turkish derby between Galatasaray and Fenerbahce. The next day he was a guest on a television program and said that he was training again, feeling good and was waiting for offers, especially from Turkey.

Web links

• Mário Jardel in the database of weltfussball.de
• Mário Jardel in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
Rainer Rauffmann	Most successful goalscorer in Europe (not officially honored in this form since 1996/97) 1998/99, 1999/2000	Henrik Larsson (also Golden Shoe)
Petit	Portugal's Footballer of the Year 2002	Ricardo Carvalho