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Adriano Leite Ribeiro (born 17 February 1982) is a Brazilian former professional footballer. Adriano had four prolific seasons in Italy with Italian clubs Parma and Inter Milan , being considered one of the best strikers in the world during this time and earning the nickname L'Imperatore ("the Emperor").
Adriano Correia Claro (born 26 October 1984), known simply as Adriano, is a Brazilian former professional footballer. One of few players in professional football who are genuinely ambidextrous , he was capable of playing as a full-back or midfielder on both sides of the pitch.
Adriano Vieira Louzada (born 3 January 1979), known simply as Adriano, is a Brazilian former footballer who played as a striker. He spent most of his professional career in Portugal, amassing Primeira Liga totals of 145 matches and 62 goals over seven seasons in representation of Nacional , Porto and Braga and winning five major titles with the ...
Adriano or Adrião is the form of the Latin given name Hadrianus commonly used in the Italian language; the form Adrian is used in the English language. [1]
Adriano was born in Jacarepaguá, a neighbourhood in the city of Rio de Janeiro, to former Brazilian international footballer, also named Adriano.He was born while his father was competing with Brazil at the 2006 FIFA World Cup, and so his father first saw him in the form of a photograph sent while he was travelling with the squad.
In 2009, Adriano was loaned to São Caetano. [ 3 ] He then returned to Santos in the end of 2010, and in 2011 Copa Libertadores , he became an important first team player, [ 4 ] after marking Alejandro Martinuccio ( Peñarol 's most important player).
Adriano – French league stats at LFP – also available in French (archived) This biographical article related to a Brazilian association football defender born in the 1980s is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it .
Born in São Paulo (SP), Adriano started his career at Itararé-SP in 2002, after having played for the youth team's of Santa Cruz and Osasco-SP. [1] In the following year he was signed by ADAP, and was later loaned out to Treze (2003), Botafogo-PB (2004) and Arapongas (2005, where he began to gain prominence to be one of the top scorers of the Segunda Divisão Paranaense with 11 goals.