Kaká (footballer born 1981)

Kaka (2009)

Claudiano Bezerra da Silva (born 16 May 1981 in São José do Belmonte), known as Kaká, is a Brazilian football player in the service of Deportivo La Coruna.

Career

Association

Kaká played until 2003 for União Bandeirante in Brazil and was then loaned out to other clubs. In 2006 he went to Europe and played two years for the Portuguese side Académica Coimbra. 2008 Kaká joined for 1.9 million euros for Hertha BSC in the Bundesliga and there wrote a contract until the end of June 2012. On August 17, 2008, the 1.87 m tall defender made ​​his Bundesliga debut against Eintracht Frankfurt. In the 2008 /09 season, he had twelve Bundesliga appearances.

After he came only two appearances in the first half of the 2008/09 season, he was loaned in the second half of 2009/10 to the Cypriot first division club Omonia Nicosia, with whom he won the championship.

In the summer of 2010 he returned to Hertha, who was relegated to the 2nd Bundesliga, back. But even in the first round of the 2010/11 season he came only to use one.

During the winter break of the 2010/11 season Kaka then moved on loan to Sporting Braga and reached the Europa League final in Dublin.

In the summer of 2011, he returned to Berlin, but end of August 2011 was sold to APOEL Nicosia. With APOEL he reached surprisingly the quarterfinals of the UEFA Champions League, where they then failed to Real Madrid. In the summer of 2012, he was then the second time Cypriot champions.

End of August 2012 he signed a contract with the Hungarian first division club Videoton FC, ​​then moved in January 2013 on loan to Deportivo La Coruna and then became the 2013/14 season committed by the Spanish second division.