Cláudio Adão

In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Adalberto and the second or paternal family name is Adão.

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Cláudio Adão

Cláudio Adão
Personal information
Full name	Cláudio Adalberto Adão
Date of birth	(1955-07-02) 2 July 1955
Place of birth	Porto Alegre (RJ) Brazil
Position(s)	Forward
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1972–1976	Santos
1977–1979	Flamengo
1980	Botafogo
1980	Áustria Viena
1980–1981	Fluminense
1982	Vasco da Gama
1982–1983	Al Ain
1983	Benfica
1983	Flamengo
1984	Botafogo
1984	Bangu
1985	Vasco da Gama
1985	Bangu
1986	Bahia
1987	Cruzeiro
1988	Botafogo
1988	Portuguesa
1989	Corinthians
1990	Sport Boys
1991	Bahia
1992–1993	Campo Grande
1993	Ceará
1993	Santa Cruz
1993	Volta Redonda
1994	Deportivo Sipesa
1994	Rio Branco
1995	Volta Redonda
1995	Desportiva
1996	Volta Redonda
International career
1975–1976	Brazil
Managerial career
1997	CSA
2006	Volta Redonda
2007	Metropolitano
2009	Ferroviário-PE
2010	Duquecaxiense
2012	Legião
2012	Atlético Paranaense (Beach soccer)
2013–	Mixto
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Cláudio Adalberto Adão, or simply Cláudio Adão (born in Volta Redonda, July 2, 1955), is a former Brazilian football player. A gifted forward, Adão was the top-scorer of almost every championship he's played.

His first professional club was Santos FC, where he arrived in 1972. When Pelé left Santos in 1974, the club predicted a brilliant future ahead for Adão as Pelé's natural replacement. But they couldn't predict Adão would suffer a serious injury that would leave him off of the pitch for several months.

Physicians believed Adão's career to be prematurely ended when Flamengo's coach, Cláudio Coutinho (who was himself a physical fitness expert) asked his club to sign Adão.

Santos let Adão go and, at Flamengo, he underwent intensive physical therapy. The results were fantastic and Adão quickly became an idol. Not only at Flamengo, but in every other club he has played for until he retired, hundreds of goals later, at almost 40 years old.

In Brazil, Adão played for Botafogo, Vasco, Fluminense, Portuguesa-SP, Corinthians, Bangu, EC Bahia, Cruzeiro, Portuguesa-RJ, Campo Grande-RJ, Ceará SC, Santa Cruz, Volta Redonda FC, Rio Branco-RJ and Desportiva-ES.

His international career included FK Austria Wien, Al Ain FC, Benfica and Sport Boys.

Adão further represented Brazil in the 1989 edition of the World Cup of Masters, scoring a hat trick in the final against Uruguay.

After retirement, he managed several clubs, CSA, Ceará, Rio Branco-ES, and Volta Redonda FC, his current club. As Rio Branco-ES manager, he won the 2001 Campeonato Capixaba.

See also

• Felipe Adão his son