Caio Canedo Corrêa

Caio
Personal information
Full name Caio Canedo Corrêa
Date of birth (1990-08-09) August 9, 1990
Place of birth Volta Redonda, Brazil
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Playing position Forward / Attacking midfielder
Club information
Current team
Al Wasl
Number 7
Youth career
2007–2009 Volta Redonda
2008São Paulo (loan)
2009Botafogo (loan)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2008–2009 Volta Redonda 0 (0)
2009Botafogo (loan) 0 (0)
2010–2012 Botafogo 55 (2)
2012Figueirense (loan) 26 (9)
2013–2015 Internacional 12 (2)
2014Vitória (loan) 18 (5)
2014–2015Al Wasl (loan) 13 (7)
2015– Al Wasl

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 2012.

† Appearances (goals)

Caio Canedo Correa, simply known as Caio (born August 9, 1990 in Volta Redonda) is a Brazilian footballer who plays attacker. He currently plays for Al Wasl, on loan from Internacional.[1]

Career

In 2001, Caio was living with parents in the city of Nantucket, an island off Cape Cod in Massachusetts, and gained prominence playing on the soccer team at his high school. But five years and some months later, when preparing for a promising future in the sport in the United States, he decided to return to Brazil to realize the dream of being a professional.

Caio Canedo started a youth in the junior category, the basic divisions of Volta Redonda. With a good performances on the youth team, he was promoted to direct professional, with the opportunity to train with São Paulo. After four months training with the team, the managers of the two clubs failed to reach an agreement to join São Paulo. He tested with the club Udinese in Italy, but did not join the team because of the limitation on foreigners. Caio decided to return to Volta Redonda and joined the team's professional club.

In 2009, Caio moved to Botafogo on loan. Alvinegro by the attacker ran the Tournament Otávio Pinto Guimarães and Campeonato Brasileiro Sub-20, having been on the bench for the first time in the last game of the 2009 Brazilian Championship against Palmeiras. With his good performance in the juniors, the club signed him in the end, throwing him to the team working alvinegro for the 2010 season 2010.

In 2010, Caio became a kind of talisman of coach Joel Santana, getting into three games of the Taça Guanabara and making three goals, including the guarantee that the job club at the end of Guanabara Cup in play against the favorite Flamengo.

On January 2013, Caio joined to Internacional and must be a substitute for Taison, because Colorado needs a speed forward since that the current player of FC Shakhtar Donetsk left the club, in 2010.[1]

Career Statistics

As of match played on 21 March 2013.[2]
Club Season Brasileirão Copa do Brasil Copa Libertadores Sudamericana State League Total
AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Botafogo
2009 0000--003030
2010 35140--00177568
2011 20161--21154437
2012 0040--20142202
Figueirense
2012 26900--0000269
Internacional
2013 0032--00121153
Total 8111173--41611416329

Honours

Botafogo
Internacional

Contract

References

External links

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