Deco
Deco playing for Barcelona in 2006.
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| Full name | Anderson Luís de Souza | ||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 27 August 1977 | ||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||
| 1995–1996 | Nacional (SP) | ||||||||||||||
| 1996–1997 | Corinthians | ||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||
| 1996–1997 | Corinthians | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 1997 | CSA | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 1997–1998 | Benfica | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 1997–1998 | → Alverca (loan) | 32 | (13) | ||||||||||||
| 1998–1999 | Salgueiros | 12 | (2) | ||||||||||||
| 1999–2004 | Porto | 154 | (32) | ||||||||||||
| 2004–2008 | Barcelona | 113 | (13) | ||||||||||||
| 2008–2010 | Chelsea | 42 | (5) | ||||||||||||
| 2010–2013 | Fluminense | 56 | (2) | ||||||||||||
| Total | 411 | (67) | |||||||||||||
| National team | |||||||||||||||
| 2003–2010 | Portugal | 75 | (5) | ||||||||||||
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Honours
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
Anderson Luís de Souza (born 27 August 1977), known as Deco, is a retired Brazilian born-Portuguese footballer who played as an attacking midfielder or central midfielder.
Deco is one of the few players to have won the UEFA Champions League with two clubs – FC Porto in 2004 and FC Barcelona in 2006. He was named UEFA Club Footballer of the Year and UEFA Best Midfielder in Porto's Champions League-winning season and was named Man of the Match in the 2003–04 Champions League final. Deco was the first player to win the UEFA Best Midfielder Award with two clubs, Porto and Barcelona. He was awarded the 2006 FIFA Club World Cup Golden Ball and the Man of the Match award in the final despite losing to Internacional.
Born and raised in Brazil, Deco received Portuguese citizenship in 2002 having completed five years of Portuguese residence, and subsequently opted to play internationally for the Portugal national football team. He earned 75 caps for them, playing at two European Championships and two World Cups, reaching the final of UEFA Euro 2004, and achieving a fourth-place finish at the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
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