Hadson da Silva Nery (born 4 August 1981), known as Hadson or Hadballa, is a Brazilian professional
football
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manager of
Santos de Macapá, reality-television personality and former professional footballer.
Career
Born in
Belém
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,
Pará
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, Hadson began playing football in Corinthians' youth system. He began his professional career with
Remo in 2000 and would play as a left back there until joining
Paraná. Hadson began a two-year spell playing for
Tavriya Simferopol in the
Ukrainian Premier League in 2003.
Hadson returned to Brazil for one season with Ponte Preta before resuming his European career with
Portuguese Liga side
União Leiria and
Segunda Liga club
Gondomar. He resumed playing in Brazil enjoying spells with
Paysandu and
Pinheirense before joining
Brasil de Pelotas
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in 2010.
After Hadson retired from playing football, he went into management of local club
Bragantino Clube do Pará
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in 2014.
In 2020, he participated in the reality show
Big Brother Brasil 20, as a civilian, being the third evicted from the program with 79.71% of the public vote to evict against
Felipe Prior (20.29%).
In 2021, Nery was hired to be manager of
Grêmio Barueri, a former national topflight team, currently at the 4th division in the state of São Paulo.
In 2022, he got into agreement with
Santos do Amapá but preferred to participate in the reality show
Power Couple Brasil 6, with his wife Eliza Fagundes, being the eighth eliminated from the program with 18.17% of the public vote to save against
Adryana Ribeiro & Albert Bressan (29.24%) and
Brenda Paixão &
Matheus Sampaio (52.59%).
Personal life
He is the younger brother of the fellow retired footballer
Harison Nery.
References
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1981 births
Living people
Brazilian men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Clube do Remo players
Paraná Clube players
SC Tavriya Simferopol players
U.D. Leiria players
Gondomar S.C. players
Paysandu Sport Club players
Ukrainian Premier League players
Brazilian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Ukraine
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Ukraine
Big Brother Brasil
Big Brother (franchise) contestants
Footballers from Belém
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