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| youthyears2 = 2002 | youthclubs2 = [[São Paulo FC|São Paulo]]

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Hulk
Hulk in action for Zenit
Personal information
Full name Givanildo Vieira de Souza
Date of birth (1986-07-25) 25 July 1986 (age 37)
Place of birth Campina Grande, Brazil
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Forward, Winger
Team information
Current team
 Zenit St. Petersburg
Number 29
Youth career
2001–2002 Vilanovense
2002 São Paulo
2003–2004 Vitória
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2004–2006 Vitória 1 (0)
2005–2007 Kawasaki Frontale 11 (1)
2006 → Consadole Sapporo (loan) 38 (25)
2007-2008 Tokyo Verdy 55 (45)
2008–2012 Porto 99 (55)
2012–2013 Zenit St. Petersburg 18 (7)
International career‡
2009– Brazil 21 (7)
2012 Brazil U23 6 (1)
Medal record
Representing  Brazil
Men's Football
Silver medal – second place 2012 London Team Competition
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19 May 2013
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 25 March 2013

Givanildo Vieira de Souza (born 25 July 1986), commonly known as Hulk (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈhuwki]), is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for FC Zenit Saint Petersburg in Russia, as a striker or winger.

After starting out professionally with Vitória and playing three years in Japan, he went on to play several seasons in Portugal with Porto, winning ten major titles – including the 2011 Europa League and three national championships – and being crowned the league's top scorer once.

Hulk represented Brazil at the 2012 Summer Olympics as one of the three allowed overage players.

Early life

Hulk was born in Campina Grande, Paraíba. He received his nickname from his father, a fan of the television series The Incredible Hulk.[1][2]

Club career

Brazil and Japan

After rarely settling as a youth, Hulk started playing professionally with Esporte Clube Vitória in Salvador, Bahia, then emigrated on loan to Japan to play for Kawasaki Frontale. Despite having been purchased months later, he was loaned to second division Consadole Sapporo, where he played all the 2006 season and scored 25 goals, one less than the top scorer.

In 2007 Hulk was loaned again to a second division team, Tokyo Verdy, where he was even more effective, netting 37 goals in 42 games and being the top goalscorer of the season. He briefly returned to Kawasaki in 2008, but rejoined Verdy after only two matches.

Porto

After his stay in Japan, Hulk moved to Portugal and signed for defending champions F.C. Porto, who bought 50% of the player's rights for €5.5 million, from Uruguayan side C.A. Rentistas,[3] with the transfer fee being received by an unnamed investor.

When Moroccan teammate Tarik Sektioui got injured, he was given an opportunity to play forward and netted his first official domestic league goal for Porto in a 2–0 home win against C.F. Os Belenenses, later adding against F.C. Paços de Ferreira (same venue and result), both as a second-half substitute. As the season advanced, he became an undisputed starter, forming an attacking trio with Cristian Rodríguez and Lisandro López, with the trio often shifting positions. After some stellar performances in the season's UEFA Champions League, he was elected as one of the Top 10 Rising Stars by UEFA.[4] In late August 2009, he extended his contract to June 2014, with a buy-out clause increased to €100 million.[5]

In the 2009–10 season, Hulk firmly established as an automatic first-choice. However, following a 20 December 2009 tunnel brawl during the league loss at S.L. Benfica (0–1), he received a four-month ban (if the disciplinary hearing upheld the ban, he faced up to three years on the sidelines), only for the domestic competitions.[6] The ban was later reduced to four matches, and the player returned to league action on 28 March 2010, scoring in a 3–0 win at Belenenses; one week later he also found the net, in a 4–1 home victory over C.S. Marítimo; with six less matches played than the previous season, he ended with five league goals.

Hulk fighting Tanju Kayhan for the ball in Porto's Europa League game against Rapid Vienna in 2010

Hulk started the 2010–11 season in impressive fashion, scoring sixteen times in his first sixteen official matches, including a hat-trick against K.R.C. Genk for the UEFA Europa League's play-off stage, on 26 August 2010 (4–2 home win, 7–2 on aggregate).[7] From September to January he won the Portuguese Championship Player of the Month, making him the only player to have won the award six times; on 7 November 2010 he scored the last two goals as Porto trounced Benfica 5–0 at home, creating a 10-point difference between the two teams,[8] with the northerners leading the league, and eventually winning it, with the player leading the goalscoring charts.

On 13 May 2011, Porto paid €13.5 million to Rentistas for another 40 percent of Hulk's sporting rights, bringing their total stake to 85% (Porto sold back 5% after renewing his contract in 2009), with the player signing a deal until 2016 and with a buy-out clause of €100 million.[9][10] He finished the season with 36 goals in 53 official games, with his team winning four major titles, including a league/cup double.

On 7 April 2012, Hulk scored the solitary goal as Porto defeated S.C. Braga away to go four points clear at the top of the table.[11] He netted six goals in the following three matches – including a brace in a 2–0 home defeat of Sporting Clube de Portugal[12]– and finished the 2011–12 season with 16 league goals as his team won another national championship; in May 2012 he was voted the Player of the Month for April for a record sixth time,[13] and he added 11 assists (a competition best).[14]

Zenit

Hulk playing for Zenit Saint Petersburg.

On 3 September 2012, Hulk completed a transfer of €40 million for FC Porto, nevertheless some say it was €60million [fn 1], to Russian Premier League club FC Zenit Saint Petersburg, reuniting with former Porto teammate Bruno Alves.[15] This transfer fee caused a lot of debate and a great stir since Mitrofanov, General director from Zenit denied publicly.[17] Russian media R-Sport even claimed that Mitrofanov had shown the media the sales contract and the fee on the contract was €40 million and not €60 million.[18][19] However Porto also confirmed in its unaudited quarterly report in Q1 2012–13, that, the club did not pay for third parties ownership (15%), agent fee nor solidarity contribution (5%), which all normally included in the transfer fee as in the case of Falcao.[20]

He scored his first goal for his new club in only his second league game, against FC Krylia Sovetov Samara, finding the net with a trademark shot from outside the box in a 2–2 away draw.[21]

In the second half of September, media speculation reported that teammates Igor Denisov and Aleksandr Kerzhakov were unsatisfied with Hulk's wage, and that they demanded renegotiation of their contracts. As a result, they were sent to the youth squad.[22][23] Denisov replied in an interview with Sport Express, stating that his stand-off with club management was over "the proper organisation of the team. And respect for the Russian players which Zenit has always relied upon.";[21] a few days after the feud, Hulk scored and assisted in a 2–1 win against FC Baltika Kaliningrad for the fifth round of the Russian Cup. A few weeks later, Hulk scored his first Champions League in his Zenit's goal and provided assist in a 3-2 loss against A.C. Milan in Matchday Two Group stage.

After falling out with coach Luciano Spalletti, Hulk declared that he was seeking to leave the club in January, however FIFA regulations bar players from playing for more than two clubs in a season, forcing Hulk to stay in Russia at least until June 2013.[24]; eventually, Hulk revealed he made amends with the club's management and things have been resolved.[25] In a 3-1 loss against Ukrainian side Shakhtar Donetsk in the friendly match, Hulk suffered an head injury after felling under a challenge and connecting his head with a Shakhtar defender's studs in second half. He was then taken to a local Dubai hospital[26] Following the club's finished third in the Champions League Group Stage, which the club entered in the Europa League, Hulk scored both goal in both legs, to put English side Liverpool out of the Europa League in round of 32 by away goal despite losing 3-1 in the second leg.[27] While at Zenit, Hulk's goalscoring form has been slowed down, having made fifteen appearance and scoring four times. On 4 May 2013, Hulk scored his first hat-trick of his Zenit's career and assisted a goal, in a 4-0 win over league struggler's Alania Vladikavkaz.[28]

Racism Incident

Hulk was the target of racial abuse by Zenit fans who opposed black players playing for the club.[29] In September 2012, a fake bomb was found at the club's training ground, accompanied by a picture of the player and a note that read "Hulk out!"[30] Hulk spoke out saying that he's had no relationship with the fans and is settling well in Russia.[31]

International career

Hulk made his debut for Brazil on 14 November 2009 in a friendly match against England in Doha, as the Seleção managed a 1–0 victory.[32] On 26 May 2012, he scored his first two international goals in a 3–1 win against Denmark at the Imtech Arena, in Hamburg, Germany.[33]

On 9 June 2012, in a friendly with Argentina, Hulk scored in a 3–4 loss.[34] In July he was named as one of three overaged players for Mano Menezes's Brazilian squad for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London,[35] and he appeared in all the games but one during the tournament, netting in the 1–2 final loss against Mexico.[36]

International goals

# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
01. 26 May 2012 Volksparkstadion, Altona, Hamburg, Germany  Denmark
1–0
3–1
Friendly
02. 26 May 2012 Volksparkstadion, Altona, Hamburg, Germany  Denmark
2–0
3–1
Friendly
03. 9 June 2012 MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA  Argentina
3–2
3–4
Friendly
04. 7 September 2012 Estádio do Morumbi, São Paulo, Brazil  South Africa
1–0
1–0
Friendly
05. 10 September 2012 Estádio do Arruda, Recife, Brazil  China
4–0
8–0
Friendly
06. 11 October 2012 Swedbank Stadion, Malmö, Sweden  Iraq
4–0
6–0
Friendly

Brazil U-23

# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
01. 11 August 2012 Wembley Stadium, London, England  Mexico
1–2
1–2
2012 Summer Olympics

Honours

Club

Porto

Country

Individual

Club statistics

As of 4 May 2013.
Season Club League Cup League Cup Continental Supercup Total
Apps Goals Assists Apps Goals Assists Apps Goals Assists Apps Goals Assists Apps Goals Assists Apps Goals Assists
2004 Vitória 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Total in Brazil 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
2005 Kawasaki Frontale 9 1 - 2 2 - 1 0 - 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 3 -
2006 Consadole Sapporo 38 25 - 3 1 - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 41 26 -
2007 Tokyo Verdy 42 37 - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 42 37 -
2008 Kawasaki Frontale 2 0 - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 -
Tokyo Verdy 11 7 - 0 0 0 3 1 - 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 8 -
Total in Japan 102 70 - 5 3 - 4 1 - 0 0 0 0 0 0 111 74 -
2008–09 Porto 25 8 9 7 1 0 1 0 0 10 0 0 1 0 0 44 9 9
2009–10 19 5 9 3 2 1 0 0 0 8 3 1 1 0 0 31 10 11
2010–11 26 23 13 7 4 4 3 1 0 16 8 4 1 0 0 53 36 21
2011–12 26 16 11 1 0 0 2 1 1 8 4 2 1 0 1 38 21 15
2012–13 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 0
Total in Portugal 99 54 42 18 7 5 6 2 1 42 15 7 4 0 1 169 78 56
2012–13 Zenit 16 7 4 3 1 3 0 0 0 9 3 1 0 0 0 28 11 8
Total in Russia 16 7 4 3 1 3 0 0 0 9 3 1 0 0 0 28 11 8
Career totals 218 131 - 26 11 - 10 3 - 51 18 8 4 0 1 309 163 -

Footnotes

  1. ^ Based on Porto did not had obligation to pay for third parties ownership (15%), agent fee (€8M) and solidarity contribution (5%)[15], total for €20 million[16]

References

  1. ^ Hytner, David (1 June 2012). "Career of Chelsea target Hulk is more incredible than how he was named". London: The Guardian.
  2. ^ "Hulk: Porto's Andre Villas Boas is destined to be the greatest and I am flattered by AC Milan's interest". Goal.com. 11 May 2011. Retrieved 7 September 2012.
  3. ^ "Comunicado" (PDF) (in Portuguese). FC Porto. 25 July 2008. Retrieved 25 September 2010. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
  4. ^ "Top ten rising stars". UEFA.com. 9 March 2009. Retrieved 13 April 2009.
  5. ^ "Comunicado" (PDF) (in Portuguese). FC Porto. 21 August 2009. Retrieved 18 May 2011. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
  6. ^ Barlow, Matt (17 February 2010). "The ineligible Hulk is desperate to take his frustration out on Arsenal". London: Daily Mail. Retrieved 18 February 2010.
  7. ^ Porto 4–2 Genk (7–2 Agg.): Hulk hits hat-trick for dominant Dragons; Goal.com, 26 August 2010
  8. ^ "Andre Villas-Boas: "This victory has a special taste for us"". PortuGOAL. 8 November 2010. Retrieved 24 April 2011.
  9. ^ Comunicado (Announcement); Porto's official website, 13 May 2011 Template:Pt icon
  10. ^ Acedo, Francisco (17 May 2011). "Porto rule out Hulk sale". Sky Sports. Retrieved 18 May 2011.
  11. ^ Hulk fires Porto to crucial win; PortuGOAL, 7 April 2012
  12. ^ Porto 2–0 Sporting; PortuGOAL, 5 May 2012
  13. ^ Hulk eleito jogador do mês (Hulk voted player of the month); Record, 2 May 2012 Template:Pt icon
  14. ^ [1]; Mais Futebol Template:Pt icon
  15. ^ a b Comunicado (Announcement); Porto's official website, 3 September 2012 Template:Pt icon
  16. ^ Nunes, Luís Miguel (3 September 2012). "OFICIAL: Hulk troca FC Porto por Zenit". Relvado (in Portuguese). Retrieved 15 February 2013.
  17. ^ Avakyan, Samuel; Championat.com (5 September 2012). "Maxim Mitrofanov: "We`re going to pay 40 million for Hulk"". FC Zenit. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
  18. ^ "Hulk and Witsel Cost €40 M Each - Zenit". RIA Novosti. 6 September 2012. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
  19. ^ "Zenit St Petersburg spend £64m to sign Hulk and Witsel". BBC Sport. 4 September 2012. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
  20. ^ quarterly report on 30 September 2012 FC Porto official site Template:Pt icon
  21. ^ a b "Zenit's $130m dilemma". ESPN FC. 24 September 2012. Retrieved 24 September 2012.
  22. ^ "Zenit: Denisov went on strike over pay". RIA Novosti. 23 September 2012. Retrieved 26 September 2012.
  23. ^ "Igor Denisov sent to Zenit`s youth squad". Zenit Football Club. 23 September 2012. Retrieved 26 September 2012.
  24. ^ "Hulk has no hope of leaving Zenit in Jan". ESPNFC. 5 December 2012.
  25. ^ "Hulk: I have resolved my differences with Zenit". Goal.com. 7 December 2012. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  26. ^ "Zenit's Hulk taken to hospital after head injury". Samba Foot. 23 January 2013. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  27. ^ "Liverpool 3-1 Zenit St Petersburg (agg 3-3)". BBC Sport. 21 February 2013. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  28. ^ "Hulk nets hat-trick as Zenit beat Alania 4-0". Samba Foot. 5 May 2013. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  29. ^ Longman, Jeré (18 December 2012). "Russian soccer fans marching backward to intolerance". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 December 2012.
  30. ^ Fyodorov, Gennady (28 September 2012). "Fake bomb found at Zenit along with Hulk picture – Reports". NBC Sports. Retrieved 20 December 2012.
  31. ^ "Hulk: I have no relationship with Zenit St Petersburg fans". Goal.com. 19 March 2013. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  32. ^ White, Duncan (14 November 2009). "England 0 Brazil 1: match report". The Daily Telegraph.
  33. ^ Denmark 1–3 Brazil: Hulk delivers clinical double to hamper Euro 2012 plans of Olsen's men; Goal.com, 26 May 2012
  34. ^ "Brazil 3 Argentina 4: Hat-trick hero Messi steals the show in thriller". London: Daily Mail. 9 June 2012.
  35. ^ "Hulk, Marcelo named in Brazil squad". FIFA.com. 5 July 2012. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
  36. ^ "Peralta's double secures gold for Mexico". FIFA.com. 11 August 2012. Retrieved 13 August 2012.

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