Adriano Leite Ribeiro(Imperatore)
Full name:Adriano Leite Ribeiro
Date of birth:February 17, 1982 (age 24)
Place of birth:Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Height:1.89m
Nickname 'Imperatore ("The Emperor")
Position:Striker
Previous Club:Flamengo,Parma,Florentin
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Current club:F.C. Internazionale Milano
Number:10
Date of birth:February 17, 1982 (age 24)
Place of birth:Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Height:1.89m
Nickname 'Imperatore ("The Emperor")
Position:Striker
Previous Club:Flamengo,Parma,Florentin
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Current club:F.C. Internazionale Milano
Number:10
Biography of Adriano Leite Ribeiro:
Adriano began his career in the youth squad of Flamengo, and played in the pro squad between 1999 to 2001.
Adriano entered the national youth teams as a teenager. He won the 1999 edition of the FIFA U-17 World Championship, and helped the Brazil team to the Quarter Finals of the 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship; he was the top scorer for Brazil with 6 goals and won the silver boot award for the competition, with 5 goals, just behind the golden boot winner, Argentinian striker Javier Saviola.
Adriano came to international fame in his first appearance for Inter Milan, when he scored against Real Madrid in the 2001 Santiago Bernabeu Trophy with a powerful free kick. With Inter already boasting first-class strikers, they loaned him out to Fiorentina during 2002.[1] In the summer of 2002, a 2 year co-ownership deal with Parma of the player was agreed.[2] In Parma, he formed one of the most impressive striking duos of Serie's A last decade with Adrian Mutu. They scored more than 15 goals with assists from each other. Adriano's kicks are strong and accurate, though sometimes lacking technical execution.
He returned to the Nerazzurri in 2004 and signed 4 and a half year contract and has since been an asset to the team.[3] He has scored a total of 15 goals in his 16 appearances during the 2004-05 season. While playing for the Brazilian national team, he won the 2004 Copa América in Peru. Adriano was the leading goal scorer of the tournament and was selected as the best player.
Adriano is often considered as the long-term successor to Ronaldo in the Brazillian national team. When he scores a goal, he looks to the sky in memory of his recently deceased father. In Italy, he is known by the nickname of "L'Imperatore" ('The Emperor'), referring to the Roman emperor Hadrian (Adriano in Italian).
He had been linked with moves to Chelsea and Real Madrid, but this rumor was put to rest after Adriano signed a four-year contract extension in 2005 that will keep him with Inter until 2010. "It's flattering that so many prestigious clubs want him," Giacinto Facchetti, Inter Milan's club president, told journalists, "but we're keeping tight hold of him." However, after a somewhat dissapointing 2005/2006 season with only 13 league goals and some poor performances, he has again been linked with a move away to Chelsea, Real Madrid and Inter's city rivals, AC Milan as they look for a replacment for Andriy Schevchenko. During the 2005 Confederations Cup, Adriano was named Player of the Tournament and was the competition's leading scorer with five goals. In the final, he steered Brazil to an unforgettable victory. Two outstanding goals helped Brazil to beat Argentina 4-1, the first one coming from a blistering left-footed shot in the 11th minute. The second came as a result of a Cicinho cross, with Adriano heading it in. This goal was also impressive because Brazil's players passed the ball among themselves for more than one minute, with most of the players 'participating' in the goal.
From 11 July 2004 through 25 June 2005, Adriano has scored an impressive total of 40 goals. They have come from an assortment of matches (28) including appearances in: Serie A, Coppa Italia & Champions League games for Inter in 2004/05; Copa America, South American World Cup qualifying, and Confederations Cup games for Brazil.
Adriano was called up to the Brazilian National side ahead of the World Cup in Germany. He is expected to line-up alongside Ronaldo, Ronaldinho and Kaka in an impressive attacking foursome. Brazil are favourites to lift the cup.
Adriano entered the national youth teams as a teenager. He won the 1999 edition of the FIFA U-17 World Championship, and helped the Brazil team to the Quarter Finals of the 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship; he was the top scorer for Brazil with 6 goals and won the silver boot award for the competition, with 5 goals, just behind the golden boot winner, Argentinian striker Javier Saviola.
Adriano came to international fame in his first appearance for Inter Milan, when he scored against Real Madrid in the 2001 Santiago Bernabeu Trophy with a powerful free kick. With Inter already boasting first-class strikers, they loaned him out to Fiorentina during 2002.[1] In the summer of 2002, a 2 year co-ownership deal with Parma of the player was agreed.[2] In Parma, he formed one of the most impressive striking duos of Serie's A last decade with Adrian Mutu. They scored more than 15 goals with assists from each other. Adriano's kicks are strong and accurate, though sometimes lacking technical execution.
He returned to the Nerazzurri in 2004 and signed 4 and a half year contract and has since been an asset to the team.[3] He has scored a total of 15 goals in his 16 appearances during the 2004-05 season. While playing for the Brazilian national team, he won the 2004 Copa América in Peru. Adriano was the leading goal scorer of the tournament and was selected as the best player.
Adriano is often considered as the long-term successor to Ronaldo in the Brazillian national team. When he scores a goal, he looks to the sky in memory of his recently deceased father. In Italy, he is known by the nickname of "L'Imperatore" ('The Emperor'), referring to the Roman emperor Hadrian (Adriano in Italian).
He had been linked with moves to Chelsea and Real Madrid, but this rumor was put to rest after Adriano signed a four-year contract extension in 2005 that will keep him with Inter until 2010. "It's flattering that so many prestigious clubs want him," Giacinto Facchetti, Inter Milan's club president, told journalists, "but we're keeping tight hold of him." However, after a somewhat dissapointing 2005/2006 season with only 13 league goals and some poor performances, he has again been linked with a move away to Chelsea, Real Madrid and Inter's city rivals, AC Milan as they look for a replacment for Andriy Schevchenko. During the 2005 Confederations Cup, Adriano was named Player of the Tournament and was the competition's leading scorer with five goals. In the final, he steered Brazil to an unforgettable victory. Two outstanding goals helped Brazil to beat Argentina 4-1, the first one coming from a blistering left-footed shot in the 11th minute. The second came as a result of a Cicinho cross, with Adriano heading it in. This goal was also impressive because Brazil's players passed the ball among themselves for more than one minute, with most of the players 'participating' in the goal.
From 11 July 2004 through 25 June 2005, Adriano has scored an impressive total of 40 goals. They have come from an assortment of matches (28) including appearances in: Serie A, Coppa Italia & Champions League games for Inter in 2004/05; Copa America, South American World Cup qualifying, and Confederations Cup games for Brazil.
Adriano was called up to the Brazilian National side ahead of the World Cup in Germany. He is expected to line-up alongside Ronaldo, Ronaldinho and Kaka in an impressive attacking foursome. Brazil are favourites to lift the cup.
Cuper played it safe
That particular showing earned him a 20 million euro worth transfer to Inter.
That particular showing earned him a 20 million euro worth transfer to Inter.
"I would like to be to Inter what my idol Zico was for Udinese," he said. Next day he starred at the Trofeo Bernabeu in Madrid against hosts Real. In about five minutes he nearly scored with a magnificent header, had a few momentous runs through Real's defence, caused skipper Fernando Hierro to earn himself a red card and then scored with a tremendous shot from the free kick.
Everybody, the fans, press and Ronaldo – then still at Inter – were thrilled, but the coach Hector Cuper was reserved.
"He is not yet a phenomenon, although he could be. I hope he proves useful to us in the future."
As always, Cuper played safe and gave the 19-year old just eight brief appearances in Serie A, before the club sent him on loan to then Roberto Mancini's Fiorentina. In the following six months Adriano proved his worth, netting six times for the "Viola", but his prowess was largely overshadowed by Fiorentina's financial disaster which landed the squad in the fourth division.
Still oblivious to Adriano's charm, Inter's supremo Massimo Moratti forwarded him to Parma and, worse still, sold the cheese-makers a half of the Brazilian's contract for 12,5 million euros. In Parma Adriano shone, scoring 15 goals in Serie A and five in the UEFA Cup. Now confident he would finally get a real chance at Inter, he was bitterly disappointed last summer upon learning he would have to stay in the provinces for further "hardening".
Inter likes it expensive
Inter's supporters were incensed to hear Adriano claim he would not automatically reject a possible approach from AC Milan, while the press wrote that "to lose Adriano would be equivalent to going down to Serie B." It took Inter's dismal run and the long-overdue dismissal of Hector Cuper to mobilise Inter's bosses to bring the Carioca back, only to find that his price had gone up to a total of 58 million euros, which meant that the Milan giants had to pay 29 million euros for the other half of the player's contract, 16,5 million more than they had received from Parma a year and a half before.
Finally, on January 21st Adriano signed a contract tying him to Inter until 2008. He was welcomed as a saviour midway through a season threatening to leave Inter without international football next season, but the new duties did not slow him down. With nine goals in just 13 starts he eclipsed Christian Vieri and Alvaro Recoba, pounding the way to fourth place and a Champions League qualifying round spot. The arrival of his old boss from Fiorentina, Roberto Mancini, was another bit of good news for the Brazilian, since the new coach promised he would not choose between Adriano and Vieri, but would instead build the team around these two formidable goal-poachers.
Clubes
| Clube | Temporada | Campeonato Nacional | Copa Nacional[a] | Competições Continentais[b] | Outros torneios[c] | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jogos | Gols | Jogos | Gols | Jogos | Gols | Jogos | Gols | Jogos | Gols | ||
 Flamengo | 2000 | 19 | 7 | – | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 32 | 10 | |
| 2001 | – | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 14 | 2 | ||
| Total | 19 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 13 | 3 | 46 | 12 | |
 Internazionale | 2001–02 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | – | 14 | 1 | |
| Total | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | – | 14 | 1 | ||
| Fiorentina (emp.) | 2001–02 | 15 | 6 | – | – | – | 15 | 6 | |||
| Total | 15 | 6 | – | – | – | 15 | 6 | ||||
| Parma (emp.) | 2002–03 | 28 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | – | 31 | 17 | |
| 2003–04 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | – | 13 | 9 | ||
| Total | 37 | 23 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 3 | – | 44 | 26 | ||
| Internazionale | 2003–04 | 16 | 9 | 2 | 3 | – | – | 18 | 12 | ||
| 2004–05 | 30 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 10 | – | 42 | 28 | ||
| 2005–06 | 30 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 10 | 6 | – | 46 | 18 | ||
| 2006–07 | 23 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | – | 30 | 6 | ||
| 2007–08 | 4 | 1 | – | – | – | 4 | 1 | ||||
| Total | 103 | 43 | 15 | 6 | 22 | 16 | – | 141 | 65 | ||
| São Paulo (emp.) | 2008 | – | – | 10 | 6 | 18 | 11 | 28 | 17 | ||
| Total | – | – | 10 | 6 | 18 | 11 | 28 | 17 | |||
| Internazionale | 2008–09 | 12 | 3 | – | 7 | 2 | – | 19 | 5 | ||
| Total | 12 | 3 | – | 7 | 2 | – | 19 | 5 | |||
| Flamengo | 2009 | 30 | 19 | – | – | – | 30 | 19 | |||
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | – | 7 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 18 | 15 | ||
| Total | 31 | 19 | – | 7 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 48 | 34 | ||
| Roma | 2010–11 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| Total | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | |
| Corinthians | 2011 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total na Carreira | 230 | 102 | 24 | 7 | 66 | 32 | 42 | 25 | 362 | 166 | |
| Club information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Current club | Corinthians | ||
| Number | 10 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1997–1999 | Flamengo | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 2000–2001 | Flamengo | 19 | (7) |
| 2001–2009 | Internazionale | 123 | (48) |
| 2002 | → Fiorentina (loan) | 15 | (6) |
| 2002–2004 | → Parma (co-ownership) | 37 | (23) |
| 2008 | → São Paulo (loan) | 0 | (0) |
| 2009–2010 | Flamengo | 31 | (19) |
| 2010–2011 | Roma | 5 | (0) |
| 2011– | Corinthians | 0 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2000– | Brazil | 48 | (27) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of March 8, 2011. † Appearances (Goals). | |||
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