Adriano Vieira Louzada (born 3 January 1979), known simply as Adriano, is a Brazilian

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. He spent most of his professional career in Portugal, amassing

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totals of 145 matches and 62 goals over seven seasons in representation of

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and

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and winning five major titles with the second club.

Club career

Adriano was born in Rio Branco,

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. He started playing in 1998 for Portuguesa then went on to represent, in his country,

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. Switching to

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in 2002, Adriano began playing with

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's C.D. Nacional. After a quick return stint in Brazil with Cruzeiro he joined

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in January 2006, and gradually made his way into the starting eleven, helping the northern club conquer the

championship and also scoring the winning goal in that year's

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final. After Lisandro López's conversion into the striker position, Adriano lost his starting job, but was often brought in from the bench. In August 2008 he was due for a transfer to fellow league side

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; however, he refused, choosing to stay at Porto and fight for a place, but did not appear in a single competitive game throughout the 2008–09 season. In late August 2009, with his chances to play for Porto virtually none, Adriano arranged for a release from his contract, and soon moved to

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. He appeared rarely for the second-placed team, being released in June 2010 and returning to his country, where he all but competed in the lower leagues and amateur football (with the exception of one year back in Europe with

U.D. Oliveirense União Desportiva Oliveirense (UDO), commonly known as Oliveirense, is a Portuguese sports club from the city of Oliveira de Azeméis, in Aveiro District. The club was founded on 25 October 1922. The main football team currently plays at the Es ...

Honours

Palmeiras * Torneio Rio-São Paulo: 2000 *

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: 2000 Porto *

: 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08 *

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: 2005–06 *

Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira The Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira (; English: Cândido de Oliveira Super Cup, or simply Portuguese Super Cup) is an annual Portuguese football match played since 1979 between the winners of the Portuguese League (Primeira Liga) and Portuguese ...

: 2006

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Adriano 1979 births Living people People from Rio Branco, Acre Brazilian footballers Association football forwards Campeonato Brasileiro Série A players Campeonato Brasileiro Série B players Campeonato Brasileiro Série C players Campeonato Brasileiro Série D players Associação Portuguesa de Desportos players Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras players Esporte Clube Vitória players Cruzeiro Esporte Clube players Sport Club do Recife players Esporte Clube Santo André players Grêmio Barueri Futebol players Primeira Liga players Liga Portugal 2 players C.D. Nacional players FC Porto players S.C. Braga players U.D. Oliveirense players Brazilian expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Portugal Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal Sportspeople from Acre (state)