Cacau
Cacau in 2016.
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Claudemir Jerônimo Barreto | ||
| Date of birth | 27 March 1981 | ||
| Place of birth | Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil | ||
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1994–1997 | Palmeiras | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1997–1999 | Nacional (SP) | ||
| 1999–2001 | Türkgücü München | 31 | (7) |
| 2001–2002 | 1. FC Nürnberg II | 18 | (9) |
| 2001–2003 | 1. FC Nürnberg | 44 | (8) |
| 2003–2014 | VfB Stuttgart | 263 | (80) |
| 2014–2015 | Cerezo Osaka | 24 | (7) |
| 2016 | VfB Stuttgart II | 9 | (3) |
| Total | 389 | (121) | |
| National team | |||
| 2009–2012 | Germany | 23 | (6) |
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Claudemir Jerônimo Barreto (born 27 March 1981), commonly known as Cacau (Portuguese pronunciation: [kaˈkaw], German: [kaˈkaʊ]), is a Brazilian-born retired German football striker.
Cacau received German citizenship in February 2009 and made his international debut in May that year in a friendly match against China. He was part of the German national team at the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Cacau's career in Germany started with fifth-division side Türkgücü München in the 1999-2000 season, after which he went on to join 1. FC Nürnberg's reserve team. Following his good performances with the reserves, he was given his Bundesliga debut against on 18 November 2001. In only his second Bundesliga match, against Bayer Leverkusen on 8 December 2001, he scored two goals in Nürnberg's 4–2 defeat. He finished his first Bundesliga season with 6 goals in 17 appearances, but failed to repeat the success the following season, when he only scored 2 goals in 27 appearances and Nürnberg 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 five goals in six matches, including the opening goal in the final against his former team Nürnberg. However, he was sent off 11 minutes later and Stuttgart went on to lose the final 3–2 after extra time.
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