Cláudio Adão

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Cláudio Adalberto Adão, or simply Cláudio Adão (born in Volta Redonda, RJ, July 2, 1955), is a former Brazilian football player. A gifted forward, Adão was the top-scorer of almost every championship he's played.

His first professional club was Santos FC, where he arrived in 1972. When Pelé left Santos in 1974, the club predicted a brilliant future ahead for Adão as Pelé's natural replacement. But they couldn't predict Adão to suffer a serious injury that would leave him out of the pitch for several months.

Physicians believed Adão's career to be prematuraly ended when Flamengo's coach, Cláudio Coutinho (who was himself a physical fitness expert) asked his club to sign with Adão.

Santos let Adão go and, at Flamengo, he went under modern and intensive physical therapy. The results were fantastic and Adão quickly became an idol. Not only at Flamengo, but in every other club he has played for until he retired, hundreds of goals later, at almost 40 years old.

In Brasil, Adão played yet for Botafogo, Vasco, Fluminense, Portuguesa-SP, Corinthians, Bangu, EC Bahia, Cruzeiro, Portuguesa-RJ, Campo Grande-RJ, Ceará SC, Santa Cruz, Volta Redonda FC, Rio Branco-RJ and Desportiva-ES.

His international career included FK Austria Wien, Al Ain FC, Benfica, Sport Boys and Alianza Lima.

After retirement, he managed several clubs, like CSA, Ceará, Rio Branco-ES, and Volta Redonda FC, his current club. As Rio Branco-ES manager, he won the 2001 Campeonato Capixaba. ^[1]