Sonny Anderson

Sonny Anderson
Sonny Anderson in August 2010
Personnel
Surname	Anderson da Silva
birthday	19th September 1970
place of birth	Goiatuba ,  Brazil
size	181 cm
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1987-1991	CR Vasco da Gama	42 0(1)
1991-1992	Guarani FC	18 0(4)
1992-1994	Servette FC Genève	52 (31)
1994	Olympique Marseille	20 (16)
1994-1997	AS Monaco	91 (51)
1997-1999	FC Barcelona	47 (16)
1999-2003	Olympique Lyon	110 (71)
2003-2004	Villarreal CF	38 (13)
2004-2005	Al-Rayyan Sports Club	20 (24)
2005-2006	Al-Gharafa	19 0(6)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1997-2001	Brazil	6 0(1)
1 Only league games are given.

Anderson da Silva (born September 19, 1970 in Goiatuba ), known as Sonny Anderson , is a former Brazilian soccer player and current coach .

Career

society

Sonny Anderson began his career in 1987 at CR Vasco da Gama and moved from Brazil from 1992 to Switzerland to Servette FC . With the club he won the championship directly and through his good performance there he aroused the interest of some French teams, so that the striker moved to Olympique Marseille after just one year . But even here it only lasted a year and so he went to league rivals AS Monaco . In 1997 he won the French championship with the club . After this season, many top teams tried to win the Brazilian, which meant that he signed for almost € 18 million with the Spanish top club FC Barcelona . He was unable to meet the expectations placed on him in Spain and so he returned to France in 1999 for € 19 million , this time to Olympique Lyon . Here he finally found his sporting home and had very successful years there. Among other things, he won the top scorer's crown in the French league three times (1996, 2000 and 2001) . After his contract expired in 2003, he tried his luck again in Spain, at Villarreal FC . At the end of his career he played again between 2004 and 2006 in Qatar , at Al-Rayyan Sport-Club and Al-Gharafa . On June 11, 2007 he finished his career with a team made up of friends with a game against his former club, the Olympique Lyon, which was not meant very seriously.

National team

He was allowed to slip on the Seleção jersey seven times , with his only goal in 1997.

Coaching career

After his playing career, he first worked as a special coach for strikers at Olympique Lyon. In June 2011 he was appointed sports director at Neuchâtel Xamax , but was dismissed after just under a month.

successes

society

• UEFA Super Cup : 1997
• Brazilian Championship : 1989
• Swiss championship : 1993/94
• French football championship : 1996/97 , 2001/02 , 2002/03
• French League Cup : 2001
• French Super Cup : 2002
• Spanish championship : 1998 , 1999
• Spanish Cup : 1997/98

Personal awards

• Best player in Ligue 1 : 1995/96 (voted by France Football)
• Best Ligue 1 player : 1996/97 (chosen by Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 players)
• Top scorer in the Swiss Super League : 1992/93
• Ligue 1 top scorer : 1995/96, 1999/2000 , 2000/01
• UEFA Cup top scorer : 2003/04
• Qatar Stars League top scorer : 2005

Trivia

Sonny Anderson was known on the field for a fashionable peculiarity: he often wore his socks pulled up above his knees. Thierry Henry later adopted this habit with reference to Sonny Anderson.

He was also known for his goal celebration, where he used both hands as colts, fired a shot and put them back in the "pockets", which is why he is also called El Pistolero .

Season statistics

society	league	season	league		Nat. Cup		League Cup		European Cup		Other		total
			Games	Gates	Games	Gates	Games	Gates	Games	Gates	Games	Gates	Games	Gates
CR Vasco da Gama	Série A	1988	3	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	0
		1989	9	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9	0
		1990	12	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	12	1
total			24	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	24	1
Guarani FC	Série A	1991	36	4th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	36	4th
total			36	4th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	36	4th
Servette Geneva	National League A	1992/93	35	20th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	35	20th
		1993/94	17th	11	-	-	-	-	4th	2	-	-	21st	13
total			52	31	-	-	-	-	4th	2	-	-	56	33
Olympique Marseille	Ligue 1	1993/94	20th	16	4th	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	24	16
total			20th	16	4th	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	24	16
AS Monaco	Ligue 1	1994/95	23	11	5	6th	-	-	-	-	-	-	28	17th
		1995/96	34	21st	5	1	-	-	2	1	-	-	41	23
		1996/97	34	19th	4th	4th	-	-	10	4th	-	-	48	27
total			91	51	14th	11	-	-	12	5	-	-	117	67
FC Barcelona	Primera División	1997/98	23	10	7th	0	-	-	7th	1	-	-	37	11
		1998/99	24	6th	1	0	-	-	6th	4th	-	-	31	10
total			47	16	8th	0	-	-	13	5	-	-	68	21st
Olympique Lyon	Ligue 1	1999/00	32	23	2	0	3	2	8th	3	-	-	45	28
		2000/01	29	22nd	4th	2	3	2	14th	5	-	-	50	31
		2001/02	25th	14th	2	1	2	0	5	3	-	-	34	18th
		2002/03	24	12	1	0	-	-	7th	5	-	-	32	17th
total			110	71	9	3	8th	4th	34	16	-	-	161	94
Villarreal CF	Primera División	2003/04	35	12	2	0	-	-	12	7th	-	-	49	19th
		2004/05	3	1	-	-	-	-	7th	4th	-	-	10	5
total			38	13	2	0	-	-	19th	11	-	-	59	24
al-Rayyan SC	Qatar Stars League	2004/05	20th	24	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	20th	24
total			20th	24	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	20th	24
al-Gharafa SC	Qatar Stars League	2005/06	19th	6th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	19th	6th
total			19th	6th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	19th	6th
Career total			457	233	37	14th	8th	4th	82	39	-	-	592	291

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neuchatels dubious boss dismisses sporting leadership "We have nothing to say"

predecessor	Office	successor
Zinedine Zidane	Ligue 1 player of the year 1997	Marco Simone