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Luís Airton Barroso "Lulù" de Oliveira (born 24 March 1969) is a
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manager and former player. A striker, he spent most of his playing career in Italy. Born in Brazil, Oliveira was an international footballer for Belgium.


Playing career


Club

Born in 1969 in a ''favela'' in
São Luís, Maranhão São Luís (; "Saint Louis") is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Maranhão. The city is located on Upaon-açu Island or Ilha de São Luís, in the Baía de São Marcos (''Saint Mark's Bay''), an extension of the Atlantic ...
, Brazil, he was signed by Belgian club
Anderlecht Anderlecht (; ) is one of the List of municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. Located in the south-western part of the region, it is bordered by the City of Brussels, Forest, B ...
, where he started his career and played until 1992. He moved to Italy in 1992, where he played for
Cagliari Cagliari (, , ; ; ; Latin: ''Caralis'') is an Comune, Italian municipality and the capital and largest city of the island of Sardinia, an Regions of Italy#Autonomous regions with special statute, autonomous region of Italy. It has about 146,62 ...
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Fiorentina ACF Fiorentina, commonly referred to as Fiorentina (), is an Italian professional Association football, football List of football clubs in Italy, club based in Florence, Tuscany. The original team was founded by a merger in August 1926, while ...
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Bologna Bologna ( , , ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in northern Italy. It is the List of cities in Italy, seventh most populous city in Italy, with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nationalities. Its M ...
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Como Como (, ; , or ; ) is a city and (municipality) in Lombardy, Italy. It is the administrative capital of the Province of Como. Nestled at the southwestern branch of the picturesque Lake Como, the city is a renowned tourist destination, ce ...
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Catania Catania (, , , Sicilian and ) is the second-largest municipality on Sicily, after Palermo, both by area and by population. Despite being the second city of the island, Catania is the center of the most densely populated Sicilian conurbation, wh ...
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Foggia Foggia (, ; ; ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) of Apulia, in Southern Italy, capital of the province of Foggia. In 2013, its population was 153,143. Foggia is the main city of a plain called Tavoliere delle Puglie, Tavoliere, also know ...
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Venezia Venice ( ; ; , formerly ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 islands that are separated by expanses of open water and by canals; portions of the city are li ...
and Lucchese, becoming famous in his early years at Cagliari and Fiorentina as a prolific and effective
Serie A The Serie A (), officially known as Serie A Enilive in Italy and Serie A Made in Italy abroad for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Italy and the highest tier of the Italian football league system. Establish ...
striker. In 2006, he accepted to play Nuorese of Serie C2/A, also in order to get closer to his family (his wife in
Sardinia Sardinia ( ; ; ) is the Mediterranean islands#By area, second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, and one of the Regions of Italy, twenty regions of Italy. It is located west of the Italian Peninsula, north of Tunisia an ...
). In 2008, following the disbandment of his club, he agreed for a move to
Serie D The Serie D () is the highest level of semi-professional football in Italy, and the fourth tier of the Italian national league system. It sits beneath the third and lowest fully professional league, Serie C, and feeds in to it through promotion ...
team Derthona. In July 2009, Oliveira moved back to Sardinia, joining
Eccellenza The Eccellenza (, "excellence") is the fifth level (since 2014–15) of Italian football.Official ...
club Muravera, a club from his wife's hometown. He retired in 2010 at the age of 41.


International

A naturalized Belgian citizen, he earned 31
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for
Belgium Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. Situated in a coastal lowland region known as the Low Countries, it is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeas ...
and played for his adoptive country at the
1998 FIFA World Cup The 1998 FIFA World Cup was the 16th FIFA World Cup, the Association football, football world championship for List of men's national association football teams, men's national teams. The finals tournament was held in France from 10 June to 1 ...
.


Coaching career

During his final season as a footballer, Oliveira also served as player/manager for the last few months of the 2009–10 season, and then stated his interest in a coaching career in the next future. He successfully passed the category 2 (UEFA A) coaching exam in June 2011 in Italy. In March 2012 he returned to Muravera, this time as head coach for the remaining four games of the season. He was confirmed as Muravera coach also for the 2012–13 season, in which he led his small club to triumph in the Coppa Italia Eccellenza. On 1 August 2014, it was announced Oliveira would become the new head coach of
Lega Pro The Lega Italiano Calcio Professionistico (Italian for Professional Football Italian League), commonly known as Lega Pro (Pro League), is the governing body that runs the third tier of professional football competitions in Italy, the Serie C. I ...
club Pro Patria with immediate effect, but he was dismissed on 4 November 2014 after managing just one win in 11 matches. On 13 June 2015, Oliveira was appointed as new head coach of Maltese Premier club
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, however his tenure lasted less than two months and was replaced by Guido Ugolotti.


Career statistics


Club


International

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


Honours

Anderlecht *
Belgian First Division The Belgian Pro League (; ; ), officially the Jupiler Pro League () for sponsor Jupiler, is a professional association football league in Belgium and the highest level of the Belgian football league system. Contested by 16 clubs from the 2023– ...
: 1990–91 *
Belgian Cup The Belgian Cup (; ; ) is the main knockout football competition in Belgium, run by the Royal Belgian FA. The competition started in 1908 with provincial selections as the "Belgian Provinces Cup". Starting from 1912 only actual clubs were allowed ...
: 1988–89, 1989–90 *
European Cup Winners' Cup The UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was a European association football, football club competition contested annually by the winners of domestic cup competitions. The competition's official name was originally the European Cup Winners' Cup; it was renam ...
runner-up: 1989–90 * Bruges Matins: 1988 Fiorentina *
Supercoppa Italiana The Supercoppa Italiana, also known as the Italian Super Cup, is an annual super cup tournament in Italian football. Founded in 1988 as a two-team competition, it has featured four teams since 2023 (the winners and runners-up of the previous ...
:
1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
Como *
Serie B The Serie B (), officially known as Serie BKT for sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It has been operating for over ninety years since the 1929–30 season. It had b ...
: 2001–02 Individual * Man of the Season (Belgian First Division): 1990–91


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Oliveira, Luis 1969 births Living people Footballers from São Luís, Maranhão Belgian people of Brazilian descent Men's association football forwards Belgian men's footballers Brazilian men's footballers Belgian football managers Belgian expatriate men's footballers Belgium men's international footballers Belgian Pro League players Naturalised citizens of Belgium Brazilian emigrants to Belgium Serie A players Serie B players Serie C players Serie D players R.S.C. Anderlecht players Cagliari Calcio players ACF Fiorentina players Bologna FC 1909 players Como 1907 players Catania FC players Calcio Foggia 1920 players Venezia FC players Lucchese 1905 players 1998 FIFA World Cup players Expatriate men's footballers in Italy ASD HSL Derthona players USD Nuorese Calcio 1930 players Floriana F.C. managers Maltese Premier League managers 20th-century Brazilian sportsmen 20th-century Belgian sportsmen