Fábio Bilica

Bilica

Personal information
Full name	Fábio Alves da Silva
Date of birth	(1979-01-04) 4 January 1979
Place of birth	Campina Grande, Brazil
Height	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Playing position	Centre back
Club information
Current club	Elazığspor
Number	58
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1996–1998	Vitória	10	(2)
1998–2002	Venezia	75	(1)
2002–2004	Palermo	12	(0)
2003	→ Brescia (loan)	11	(0)
2003–2004	→ Ancona (loan)	17	(1)
2004	Goiás	0	(0)
2004	Grêmio	24	(1)
2005	1. FC Köln	15	(0)
2006–2007	Istres	41	(2)
2007–2008	Universitatea Cluj	15	(0)
2008–2009	Sivasspor	34	(1)
2009–2012	Fenerbahçe	46	(1)
2012–	Elazığspor	34	(0)
National team‡
1999–2000	Brazil U-23	16	(2)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 09:54, 27 December 2013 (UTC). † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 22 November 2007

Fábio Alves da Silva (born 4 January 1979), commonly known as Bilica, is a Brazilian footballer who currently plays for Elazığspor.^[1]

Club career

Bilica is infamous for his statement during his time at Venezia when he claimed that he would break Roberto Baggio's legs, who was playing for Brescia at that time. Baggio wound up getting injured and stayed on the sidelines for several months.

Bilica made his debut at Bahia. He then later played for many clubs including Palermo, Köln and many more.

In 2004, Fábio Bilica was approached by Goiás Esporte Clube, as part of the manager Celso Roth's preparations for the 2004 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A. However, the negotiations with the Goiânia club did not go as expected.^[2] Bilica was then signed by the Porto Alegre club Grêmio.^[3] At Grêmio, Fábio Bilica was part of the squad that was relegated to the Série B. In a disastrous campaign, Grêmio was virtually relegated with four rounds to go to the end of the season, and Bilica was dismissed by the team after problems with the club, such as a verbal altercation with heckling fans, arguments with the coach Cláudio Duarte, and for the poor campaign and financial conditions of the club.^[4][5] Bilica was released by the club after the end of the season, amidst problems with the club president, Paulo Odone, and allegations of indiscipline and improper conduct.^[6]

In November 2007 he arrived in Romania, at Universitatea Cluj, there he played in 17 matches, he was appreciated, but in the last game of the season against rivals from CFR Cluj, Bilica has foul an opponent in his own penalty area, so CFR Cluj have scored their winning goal. After this match, it was suspected that he did not played fair against CFR Cluj, helping them to win the Romanian championship instead of Steaua Bucharest.

Bilica signed for Sivasspor in July 2008 and caught the attention of Fenerbahçe. He later signed with Fenerbahçe on 8 June 2009 in exchange for Yasin Çakmak and €1.5 million.

International career

Bilica was a member of the Brazil Olympic team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney where he reached the quarter finals, Brazil lost to Cameroon at the quarter finals. He played in the Olympic team alongside much more famous players as Ronaldinho, Lúcio and Fábio Aurélio.

Trivia

While playing for Venezia he replaced the goalkeeper who had been sent off and then proceeded to save a penalty from AC Milan striker Andriy Shevchenko (1999–2000 season).

Honours

Fenerbahçe

• Turkish Super Cup: 2009
• Süper Lig: 2010–11
• Turkish Cup: 2011–12

References

External links

• Turkish Football Federation Profile
• Player profile at Sambafoot

v t e Brazil men's football squad – 2000 Summer Olympics 1 Helton 2 Baiano 3 Bilica 4 Álvaro 5 Marcos Paulo 6 Fábio Aurélio 7 Ronaldinho 8 Fabiano 9 Edu 10 Alex 11 Geovanni 12 Roger 13 André Luís 14 Lúcio 15 Mozart 16 Athirson 17 Lucas 18 Fábio Costa Coach: Luxemburgo