Cacá (footballer born 1982)

Not to be confused with the Real Madrid Brazilian footballer nicknamed Kaká.

Cacá

Personal information
Full name	Lucas de Deus Santos
Date of birth	October 9, 1982 (1982-10-09)
Place of birth	Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Height	1.71 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	União Leiria
Number	29
Youth career
1999	Atlético Mineiro
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2000–2004	Atlético Mineiro	9	(0)
2002	→ Sport (loan)	?	(?)
2003–2004	→ Duisburg (loan)	15	(0)
2005	CRB	15	(1)
2006–2009	Aalborg	64	(14)
2009–2011	Odense	35	(3)
2011–	União Leiria	16	(0)
National team
1999	Brazil U17	6	(1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 4 December 2011. † Appearances (Goals).

Lucas de Deus Santos (born 9 October 1982 in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais), aka Cacá, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for U.D. Leiria in Portugal, as a midfielder.

Club career

Cacá started his career with hometown's Clube Atlético Mineiro. During his spell with the Galo, he was also loaned twice: in 2003–04, he played with MSV Duisburg in the German second division, being sparingly used as the club finished in seventh position.

In early 2006, Cacá signed with AaB Fodbold from Clube de Regatas Brasil. He only appeared in two Danish Superliga games in his third season due to injury, as the Aalborg outfit won the national championship after a nine-year wait. Back to full fitness in 2008–09, he helped the club reach the final in the Danish Cup; additionally, on 25 November 2008, he scored the 1–1 equalizer in a UEFA Champions League group stage contest against Celtic, in an eventual 2–1 win which saw the hosts leafrog the Scots for the third place in Group E, with the subsequent UEFA Cup qualification.

On 5 July 2009, Cacá moved teams but stayed in Denmark, signing a three-year contract with Odense BK, for around 4 million Danish kroner. In his only full season with the team, he contributed with 17 starts and three goals to an eventual second position, which qualified to the Europa League.

Cacá and Odense mutually terminated the player's contract on 14 January 2011. In the last day of the winter transfer window, he signed with U.D. Leiria in Portugal, joining a host of compatriots at the top division side.

International career

Cacá played all the games for Brazil at the 1999 FIFA U-17 World Championship in New Zealand, scoring in the quarterfinals against Paraguay (4–1 win) as the national team won the tournament.

Personal

Cacá's older brothers, Dedê and Leandro, are also footballers. Both shared teams at Atlético Mineiro and Borussia Dortmund, with very different individual fates however.

External links

• Futpédia profile (Portuguese)
• Official AaB profile (Danish)
• Danish Superliga stats
• Career stats at Danmarks Radio (Danish)
• Stats and profile at Zerozero
• Stats at ForaDeJogo (Portuguese)
• Cacá – FIFA competition record