Luiz Carlos Nascimento Júnior

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Personal information
Luizão
Full name	Luiz Carlos Nascimento Júnior
Date of birth	January 3, 1987 (1987-01-03) (age 21)
Place of birth	Vargem Alta (ES), Brazil
Height	1.84 m (6 ft +¹⁄₂ in)
Playing position	Centre Back / Full Back
Club information
Current club	Vasco
Youth clubs
2004-2005	Cruzeiro
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2005-2007 2007 2007-2008	Cruzeiro FC Lucerne Vasco (Loan)	21 (2) 17 (1)
National team
	Brazil U20	4 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 27 August 2007. * Appearances (Goals)

Luiz Carlos Nascimento Júnior or simply Luizão (born on January 3, 1987 in Vargem Alta, Espírito Santo), is a Brazilian football player, who plays as a defender, either as a centre back or as a full back. He is currently playing for Vasco on loan from Swiss club FC Lucerne.

1 Career
2 International career
3 Honours
4 Contract
5 External links
6 References

[edit] Career

Luizão was brought up from the Cruzeiro youth squad and made his professional debut for them against Grêmio in a 3-1 home win in the Campeonato Brasileiro on April 23, 2006.^[1]

He scored his first professional goal for Cruzeiro against Figueirense in a 2-0 away win in the Campeonato Brasileiro on April 30, 2006.^[2]

In July 2007, Luizão was transferred to FC Lucerne. Two weeks after he was transferred, not even playing a single game for FC Lucerne, Luizão was sent back to Brazil, on loan at Vasco da Gama.^[3] ^[4]

Apart from interesting Vasco, Luizão was also interesting Benfica who were also willing to loan him. ^[5]

F.C. Internazionale Milano were said to be eying the Brazilian defender, after his notable performances in the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup.^[6]

[edit] International career

Luizão played in the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup. He played in all four matches that Brazil were involved in. Unfortunately Brazil were eliminated in the quarter final, where Luizão managed to receive his only yellow card of the tournament, in the 116th minute.