Caio Canedo
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Caio Canedo Corrêa | ||
Date of birth | August 9, 1990 | ||
Place of birth | Volta Redonda, Brazil | ||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
Position(s) | Forward / Attacking midfielder | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Al Ain | ||
Number | 7 | ||
Youth career | |||
2007–2009 | Volta Redonda | ||
2008 | → São Paulo (loan) | ||
2009 | → Botafogo (loan) | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2008–2009 | Volta Redonda | 0 | (0) |
2009 | → Botafogo (loan) | 0 | (0) |
2010–2012 | Botafogo | 55 | (2) |
2012 | → Figueirense (loan) | 26 | (9) |
2013–2015 | Internacional | 12 | (2) |
2014 | → Vitória (loan) | 18 | (5) |
2014–2015 | → Al Wasl (loan) | 22 | (16) |
2015–2019 | Al Wasl | 66 | (37) |
2019– | Al Ain | 0 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 30 April 2018 |
Caio Canedo Correa, or simply known as Caio, is an Emirati–Brazilian footballer. He currently plays for Al Ain in the UAE as an attacker.[1]
Career
In 2001, Caio was living with parents in the city of Nantucket, an island off Cape Cod in Massachusetts, and gained prominence playing on the soccer team at his high school. But five years and some months later, when preparing for a promising future in the sport in the United States, he decided to return to Brazil to realize the dream of being a professional.
Caio Canedo started a youth in the junior category, the basic divisions of Volta Redonda. With a good performances on the youth team, he was promoted to direct professional, with the opportunity to train with São Paulo. After four months training with the team, the managers of the two clubs failed to reach an agreement to join São Paulo. He tested with the club Udinese in Italy, but did not join the team because of the limitation on foreigners. Caio decided to return to Volta Redonda and joined the team's professional club.
In 2009, Caio moved to Botafogo on loan. Alvinegro by the attacker ran the Tournament Otávio Pinto Guimarães and Campeonato Brasileiro Sub-20, having been on the bench for the first time in the last game of the 2009 Brazilian Championship against Palmeiras. With his good performance in the juniors, the club signed him in the end, throwing him to the team working alvinegro for the 2010 season 2010.
In 2010, Caio became a kind of talisman of coach Joel Santana, getting into three games of the Taça Guanabara and making three goals, including the guarantee that the job club at the end of Guanabara Cup in play against the favorite Flamengo.
In January 2013, Caio joined to Internacional and must be a substitute for Taison, because Colorado needs a speed forward since that the current player of FC Shakhtar Donetsk left the club, in 2010.[1]
In January 2020, Caio, who is Brazilian-born, has acquired Emirati citizenship which qualifies him to play for United Arab Emirates national football team to compete at the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC).[2] Together with Sebastián Tagliabué, he will be the first Latin Americans to represent the United Arab Emirates in football, in a rare move by the country to change the country's football fortune in the qualification.
Eligibility Controversy
An inquiry held by the Prime Minister of East Timor in 2016 heard that Caio was one of seven Brazilian footballers to receive falsified baptism documents from Timor's Catholic Church, in order to make it appear he was eligible for Timorese nationality.[3]
All seven players are based in Asia, but only one, Juninho, has played for Timor's controversial national side.
Caio received his Timorese passport in 2015,[4] despite having no known means of eligibility, such as a family connection, or residency.[5]
His Dubai-based club, Al Wasl, delayed playing him until his new passport arrived, therefore meaning he could be used as an Asian player, rather than an international player.
Career statistics
- As of match played on 11 April 2017.[6]
Club | Season | League | Cup | International | Others | State League | Total | ||||||
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Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Botafogo | |||||||||||||
2009 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
2010 | 35 | 1 | 4 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 0 | 17 | 7 | 56 | 8 | |
2011 | 20 | 1 | 6 | 1 | - | - | 2 | 1 | 15 | 4 | 43 | 7 | |
2012 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | - | - | 2 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 20 | 2 | |
Total | 55 | 2 | 14 | 1 | - | - | 4 | 1 | 49 | 13 | 122 | 17 | |
Figueirense | |||||||||||||
2012 | 26 | 9 | 0 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 9 | |
Total | 26 | 9 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 26 | 9 | |
Internacional | |||||||||||||
2013 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | - | - | 0 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 15 | 3 | |
Total | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 12 | 1 | 15 | 3 | |
Al Wasl | |||||||||||||
2015-16 | 23 | 9 | 6 | 5 | - | - | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 14 | |
2016-17 | 20 | 11 | 8 | 2 | - | - | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 13 | |
Total | 43 | 20 | 14 | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 57 | 27 | |
Career Total | 124 | 31 | 31 | 10 | - | - | 4 | 1 | 61 | 14 | 220 | 56 |
Honours
- Botafogo
- Campeonato Carioca: 2010
- Internacional
Contract
- Botafogo.[7]
References
- ^ a b "Inter apresenta Vítor Júnior e Gilberto; Caio deve ser anunciado em breve Inter presents Vítor Júnior and Gilberto; Caio must be announced soon". Archived from the original on 2013-02-19. Retrieved 2013-01-11.
- ^ "Al Ain FC's Caio Canedo Correa gets UAE citizenship". Khaleej Times. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
- ^ "Deskonfia Paroquia Balun Falsifika Dokumentu, Kontribui Instabilidade – STL Online". Suara-timor-lorosae.com. 2016-01-06. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
- ^ http://www.thenational.ae/sport/arabian-gulf-league/al-wasl-have-to-fight-at-the-top-caio-canedo-talks-dubai-clubs-ambitions
- ^ Jack Kerr. "Success Is No Longer Foreign to East Timor, but the Players Are - The New York Times". Nytimes.com. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
- ^ "Leandro Damião da Silva dos Santos". Soccerway. Global Sports Media. Retrieved 19 July 2011.
- ^ CBF Registry Archived 2010-01-24 at the Wayback Machine (in Portuguese)
External links
- 1990 births
- Living people
- Brazilian footballers
- Emirati footballers
- Naturalized citizens of the United Arab Emirates
- Brazilian expatriate footballers
- Volta Redonda Futebol Clube players
- Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas players
- Figueirense FC players
- Sport Club Internacional players
- Esporte Clube Vitória players
- Al-Wasl F.C. players
- Al Ain FC players
- Expatriate footballers in the United Arab Emirates
- Campeonato Brasileiro Série A players
- UAE Pro League players
- Association football midfielders
- Association football forwards