Cacau

Cacau

Infobox Football biography
playername = Cacau


fullname = Jeronimo Maria Barreto Claudemir da Silva
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1981|3|27
cityofbirth = Santo André
countryofbirth = Brazil
height = height|m=1.79
position = Striker
currentclub = VfB Stuttgart
clubnumber = 18
contractend = June 30 2010
youthyears =
youthclubs =
years = 1997–1999
1999–2001
2001–2003
2003–
clubs = São Paulo
Türk Gücü München
Nuremberg
Stuttgart
caps(goals) = 012 0(9)
031 0(7)
044 0(8)
130 0(42)
nationalyears =
nationalteam =
nationalcaps(goals) =
pcupdate = 4 October 2008
ntupdate =

Jeronimo Maria Barreto Claudemir da Silva (born 27 March 1981), simply known as Cacau, is a Brazilian football striker who plays for VfB Stuttgart in the Bundesliga.

Club career

Cacau's career in Germany started with fifth-division side Türk Gücü München in the 2000-01 season, after which he went on to join 1. FC Nuremberg's reserve team. Following his good performances with the reserves, he was given his Bundesliga debut against Hansa Rostock on 18 November 2001. In only his second Bundesliga match, against Bayer 04 Leverkusen on 8 December 2001, he netted a brace in Nuremberg's 4-2 defeat. He finished his first Bundesliga season with six goals in 17 appearances, but failed to repeat the success the following season, when he only scored two goals in 27 appearances and Nuremberg were relegated.

Having already signed a contract with VfB Stuttgart in January 2003, Cacau joined the club for the 2003-04 season. In his first season with Stuttgart, he also made four appearances in the UEFA Champions League. In the 2004-05 season, he scored 12 Bundesliga goals and was the club's second-best goalscorer. In the first part of the same season, he also had a successful UEFA Cup campaign, netting three consecutive braces in Stuttgart's first three matches of the competition.

After an unsuccessful season in 2005-06, in which he only scored four Bundesliga goals for Stuttgart, he went on to be one of the key players in the club's run to the league title in 2007, once again becoming their second-best goalscorer with 13 goals, crucially netting both goals in their 2-0 win over Bayern Munich as well as the winning goal in a 3-2 away win over VfL Bochum in the final five rounds of the season. During the 2006-07 season, he also helped Stuttgart reach the final of the DFB-Pokal, scoring 5 goals in 6 matches, including the opening goal in the final against his former team Nuremberg. However, he was sent off 11 minutes later and Stuttgart went on to lose the final 3-2 after extra time.

In the 2007-08 season, he made further five appearances for Stuttgart in the UEFA Champions League and also scored his first goal in the competition, netting the equaliser in a 3-2 win over Glasgow Rangers. He also helped the club finish sixth in the Bundesliga, netting nine goals in 27 appearances during the season.

Honours

VfB Stuttgart
*Bundesliga champion: 2007
*German Cup runner-up: 2007

Trivia

His brother Vlademir is also a footballer.

External links

*/pt icon [http://www.cacau.de/ Official website]
* [http://www.fussball-gott.com/cacau.php "Fussball-gott"]
* [http://picasaweb.google.com/samuel.schilling/Cacau Pictures]
* [http://youtube.com/watch?v=H125nknvj5c German Bundesliga "Goal of the month" Prize]
* [http://www.transfermarkt.de/de/spieler/1426/cacau/default/2007/leistungsdaten.html Some performance statistics]


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