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who played as striker. He is the assistant of Angolan side

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Club career

Flávio helped his team

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to participate in the

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two successive times in 2005 and 2006. In the FIFA Club World Championship 2006 opening match against

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of New Zealand on 10 December 2006, he scored the first goal, helping Al Ahly to a 2–0 win. In the semi-final on 13 December 2006, Al Ahly faced South American champions Internacional, and Flávio played and scored an equaliser with a header in the second half, but Al Ahly eventually lost the match 1–2. After having a very unsuccessful first season with the team during which he scored only one goal in the league, and being jeered by fans at many times, most notably when he missed a penalty kick against rivals

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in the African Champions League, Flávio had a very successful second season in 2006–2007, seeing him top the goalscorers chart of the

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with 17 goals, a single goal ahead of international Egyptian teammate

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. He proved to be instrumental in Al Ahly's formation in the next years, scoring many vital goals in critical moments. Generally, Flávio kept an extremely low profile and rarely appears in the media or give any press statements. Such attitude is highly appreciated by his club administration, since it agrees with the club's policies. In his last season with Al Ahly (2008–2009), Flávio managed to score Al Ahly's only goal during the Egyptian Premier League play-off against

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, handing the title to Al Ahly for the fifth time in row and rewarding himself with the second personal title of the Egyptian Premier League Top Goalscorer, for the third time as a foreign player in the Egyptian Premier League history after

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with Ismaily during the 2000–2001 season, then Flávio himself formerly during the 2006–2007 season. At his time with Al Ahly he was very well known in Egypt for his heading accuracy, and it was known that Al Ahly played a tactic that Flávio's fellow

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and Al Ahly teammate Gilberto would play a long ball to him from the sides, and Flávio would score with his head. He did this on multiple occasions, earning Al Ahly multiple titles domestically and continentally.

International career

Flávio was a member of the Angola national team, and was called up to the

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, in which he scored Angola's only goal of the tournament, with a header against

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to earn a 1–1 draw. This was Angola's only appearance at a World Cup so far, so Flávio is the only Angolan player to score at a World Cup to date. He scored three goals for Angola in

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in Egypt, although they went out in the second round. His goals were against

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and

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Career statistics

Club

Notes

International

:''Scores and results list Angola's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Flávio goal''.

Honours

Al Ahly *

: 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09 *

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: 2006, 2007 *

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2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 *

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2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

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: 2006, 2007, 2009 *

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third place:

Petro Atletico *

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: 2000, 2001 *

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: 2000, 2002, 2013 * Angolan SuperCup: 2002 Angola * Qualified for the

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with Angola for the first time ever, and scored Angola's only World Cup goal in their history so far (despite playing for only thirty-nine minutes during the whole tournament). * He scored 7 goals so far for

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so far, in

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, Ghana 2008, Angola 2010. Individual * CAF Champions League best player: 2001 *

top goalscorer: 2006–07, 2008–09 *

top goalscorer: 2001, 2002 *

top goalscorer: 2001

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Amado, Flavio 1979 births Living people Footballers from Luanda Angolan men's footballers 21st-century Angolan sportsmen Angola men's international footballers Angolan expatriate men's footballers 2006 FIFA World Cup players 2006 Africa Cup of Nations players 2008 Africa Cup of Nations players 2010 Africa Cup of Nations players 2012 Africa Cup of Nations players Men's association football forwards Al Ahly SC players Al Shabab FC (Riyadh) players Atlético Petróleos de Luanda players Lierse S.K. players Belgian Pro League players Egyptian Premier League players Expatriate men's footballers in Egypt Expatriate men's footballers in Saudi Arabia Expatriate men's footballers in Qatar Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium CAF Champions League–winning players