Dodo playing for Dinamo Zagreb
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Luiz Paulo Hilário | ||
Date of birth | 16 October 1987 | ||
Place of birth | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | ||
Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) | ||
Playing position | Left Winger, Centre Forward | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
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AEL | ||
Number | 54 | ||
Youth career | |||
Juventus–RJ | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2007–2009 | Juventus–RJ | ||
2008 | → Profute (loan) | ||
2009–2010 | Inter Zaprešić | 30 | (9) |
2010–2011 | Dinamo Zagreb | 16 | (3) |
2011 | → NK Lokomotiva (loan) | 12 | (2) |
2011–2016 | Gabala | 131 | (23) |
2016 | Joinville | 3 | (0) |
2016– | AEL | 9 | (1) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20:00, 18 January 2017. |
Luiz Paulo Hilário, most commonly known as Dodô (born 16 October 1987 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian footballer who currently plays for Greek Super League club AEL.
Dodô signed for Inter Zaprešić in January 2009, on recommendation by Eduardo da Silva, another football player from Rio de Janeiro who played for Inter Zaprešić earlier in his career.
Dodô came to the club during the winter break of the 2008–09 season and since then he scored five goals in 13 league appearances for the Croatian club, including a hat-trick against Rijeka on the final day of the season, on 31 May 2009.
After scoring another four goals in the first half of the 2009/10 season, bring his total to nine goals in 30 games for Inter, Dodô was signed by Croatian giants GNK Dinamo Zagreb. In total he spent 12 months at Dinamo, scoring three times in 20 appearances. He was loaned out to NK Lokomotiva Zagreb for the second half of the 2010/11 season, where he scored twice in 12 appearances.
In the summer of 2011, Dodô signed a two-year contract with Azerbaijan Premier League side Gabala FC, taking the number 77 jersey.
Dodô made his debut in the first game of the season against Baku in a 0-0 draw on 7 August 2011. His first goal for Gabala came in the 5th minute of his second game for the club away to Sumgayit in a game that finished in a 1-2 victory to Gabala. He ended his first season in Gabala with 10 goals in all competitions. Following the departure of Deon Burton, Dodô took the number 10 jersey for his second season with Gabala, which saw him score 4 times in 33 appearances in all competitions to leave him in 5th place in Gabala's all time goal scorers chart with 14 goals.