Aílton Gonçalves da Silva

Aílton 2007 Training at MSV Duisburg

Aílton (born 19 July 1973 in Mogeiro, Paraíba, Brazil; actually Aílton Gonçalves da Silva ) is a former Brazilian footballer. With Werder Bremen who competes quick center forward in 2004 German champions, cup winner and top scorer in the Bundesliga. In the same year he was also chosen as the first foreign footballer of the year in Germany.

In the Bundesliga, he also played for FC Schalke 04, Hamburger SV and MSV Duisburg. He scored in his entire career total of 106 Bundesliga goals, making it the third by far a total of four foreign players who scored more than 100 goals in the Bundesliga. International was the Toni and ball lightning called in Germany Brazilians in Mexico, Turkey, Ukraine, Serbia, China, Switzerland and worked in Austria as a player.

• 2.1 team title
• 2.2 scorer
• 2.3 Honours

Playing career

Brazil and Mexico (1993-1998)

Ailton's career started in Rio Grande do Sul during Ypiranga FC from Erechim. After a short trip to Mogi Mirim EC in the state of São Paulo, he returned to Ypiranga FC, ​​with whom he was sixth in the 1995 state championship and also with 16 -goal top scorer of the competition.

After that, he was briefly the capital club SC Internacional in Porto Alegre, in the Santa Cruz FC in the northeastern Brazilian Recife and the Guarani FC in Campinas, São Paulo busy.

1997 he moved abroad when he was hired by the UANL Tigres in the Mexican San Nicolás de los Garza (near Monterrey).

Werder Bremen (1998-2004)

In October 1998 Aílton moved to Bremen Werder. After initial difficulties under coach Felix Magath and only two league goals in his debut season, he grew to become progressively a top performer. 1999/2000 he scored twelve hits, 2000/ 01 13 2001/ 02 16 2002/ 03 also 16, and 2003/ 04 he was charged with 28 goals top scorer in the Bundesliga. This season he became German champion with Werder Bremen and won for the second time after 1999, the DFB Cup, whose profits he also contributed six goals as the scorer. Overall, he scored 88 Bundesliga goals, including 15 by penalty gave 30 assists and scored eleven goals in the Cup for Werder. He set a new record in the meantime conducted since the 1995/96 season scorer standings with 37 points. In addition, he was elected as the first foreign player to Germany's Footballer of the Year.

FC Schalke 04 (2004-2005)

For the season 2004 /05 he moved free transfer to FC Schalke 04 to Gelsenkirchen. There, he scored 14 goals in 29 league games and had once again boast a strong strike rate. Due to ongoing conflicts between the management of the club FC Schalke 04 and Aílton this premature end of the contract and a change of club against a transfer payment agreed. Ultimately, the Turkish giants Beşiktaş Istanbul secured for € 3.5 million for the rights to Aílton the 2005/ 06 season. With Schalke Aílton was runner-up and reached the cup final in 2005.

Between Turkey, Germany, Serbia and Switzerland (2005-2007)

In July 2005, Ailton began employment with Beşiktaş Istanbul. He achieved, inter alia, in the group stage of the UEFA Cup in 2005/ 06 against Bolton Wanderers in October 2005, a goal. In December 2005 Aílton has been deleted for the other games from the squad after he had attempted to escape in the direction of Brazil, but was stopped by Beşiktaş manager Mehmet Eski left the airport. Reason for the flight was that he was not considered for a circulatory collapse on the grid. Because he had, however, found a new club during the winter break - he wanted to return to the Premier League - he returned to the Bosphorus in January 2006.

A week before the end of the winter transfer list undertook the Hamburger SV Aílton in January 2006 for an estimated loan amount of 450,000 euros to 30 June 2006. At the hamburgers he earned 55,000 euros net per month, plus he got per Bundesliga game another 10,000 euro net. Hamburger SV also secured the option Aílton on 30 June 2006 for a total of an estimated 1.75 million euros to buy. The club but decided not to use the option. Aílton retired on 8 February 2006 in the match against Hannover 96 a mandibular fracture on, but soon returned to team training and scored a total of three hits for HSV.

Aílton was still banished after returning to Istanbul Beşiktaş from the squad, but had to twice a day to complete a single workout. An intended stay in the Bundesliga did not materialize, so he moved to the beginning of the 2006/07 season for six months in the Serbian League to Red Star Belgrade. Belgrade paid a transfer fee of 300,000 euros. Red Star won the Serbian Cup Season 2006/07.

During the winter break of the season 2006/ 07 Aílton Red Star Belgrade could leave. The Grasshopper Club Zurich signed him on loan ( with option to purchase ) by the summer of 2007. During the first game ( against FC Aarau ) on 24 February 2007, he equally scored his first and at the same time play a decisive goal in a 1-0 victory for the GCZ. In total, he scored nine goals in 13 games. However, Zurich renounced the option to buy.

Globetrotter with changing stations (2007-2009)

In the 2007 summer break Aílton moved to MSV Duisburg. But were 100,000 euros to Red Star Belgrade, formally stood by the Aílton under contract, paid. His only Bundesliga goal for MSV he scored the 1:3 home game against his former club Werder Bremen. He was replaced in the 65th minute to a standing ovation of their own and even under frenetic cheers and chants of opposing fans, with Aílton apologized after scoring during the Werder fans. On 4 January 2008 he was suspended by coach Rudi Bommer, because he did not appear to back round the start of training. On February 25, the contract was terminated.

Next, he signed a two -year contract with the Ukrainian first division team of Metalurh Donetsk. 12 April 2008 Aílton products obtained in the 2-1 win against Naftowyk -Ukrnafta Ochtyrka his first goal for the club. After only two league games but Aílton Donetsk was about to leave again, what was soon quarreled: Donetsk demanded a transfer, Aílton should terminate the contract prematurely; Aílton other hand, said that Donetsk contractual terms have not been complied with. Ultimately, it was agreed that Aílton looking on loan a new club, but Donetsk should keep the transfer rights.

On 25 August 2008 Aílton signed a contract until 2009 in the Austrian Bundesliga at Cashpoint SC Rheindorf Altach, who loaned the players of Donetsk. After initial turbulence - in an interview he said, Altach was " not professional " team - he scored on 5 October in a 3-1 away win against LASK Linz 's first goal for his new team. In January 2009 he got out of his contract for at Altach and also did not return to his old club to Donetsk. At this time Aílton was but according to his own statements clear that he did not wanted to end his career.

In March 2009, the Brazilian second division Campinense Clube Aílton took them under contract. The contract ran until the end of November 2009, but was disbanded in July 2009.

In the summer of 2009 Aílton moved to Chongqing Lifan in the Chinese Super League. This association was in the past five years already and his tenth overall its seventeenth station. This Aílton played in eight different countries. End of October 2009 ended his involvement here.

Career finale in the lower leagues (2009-2013)

In December 2009 Aílton moved to the Lower Rhine division KFC Uerdingen 05, which was initially dismissed by some as a PR stunt. There he was given a contract until 2011. On 24 February 2010 he made his debut at the league game against the second team of the Wuppertal SV Borussia (1:1 ) when he was substituted after 62 minutes, but remained scoreless. In his eighth deployment against VfB Homberg, he scored his first goal.

During the summer break in 2010 Aílton returned for season 2010/11 back to Bremen to play for the local regional league team FC Oberneuland. There he was trained by Mike Barten, who had been on his Werder time nor a teammate. The first competitive match for his new club Aílton completed on 14 August 2010 in the first round of the DFB Cup. He came on in the 61st minute, but the scarce 0-1 defeat against the Bundesliga side SC Freiburg could not prevent. In his second league game 27 August 2010 (3rd Round ), he scored the first goal of the season in the 2:3 defeat against Holstein Kiel. End of January 2011, the paths of Aílton and FC Oberneuland parted again. Previously Aílton had missed the start of training for the second half and appeared only shortly before the start of the season in Bremen. The reason for the separation was on Aílton that he was homesick for Brazil. Accordingly, he returned in February 2011 back to Brazil and signed for unterklassigen club Rio Branco Esporte Clube.

Financially saw Aílton facing an uncertain future because he could not get along with the income during his career.

In July 2012, Aílton graduated from the medical check at sechstklassigen Rhinehessen Association division Hassia Bingen and signed July 26, 2012 a one year contract with an option for extension. In his first game for the Hassia on 11 August 2012, he appeared as a substitute in the 68th minute and scored both goals for the 2-0 win against SpVgg Ingelheim. Despite its achieved until end of season 13 goals he could not avoid relegation in the national league. Nevertheless, he extended his contract at Hassia Bingen for another year. It was the first time since his departure from Werder Bremen in 2004 that he remained a club over a season beyond loyal.

On December 20, 2013 Aílton announced to have ended his career for good.

SV Werder Bremen held on 6 September 2014, a testimonial match for End of career.

Achievements

Team title

Werder Bremen

• German master ( 1): 2004
• German Cup ( 2): 1999, 2004
• German Cup finalist (1 ): 2000
• DFL League Cup finalists ( 1): 1999

Schalke 04

• UEFA Intertoto Cup winners ( 1): 2004
• German Vice Champion ( 1): 2005
• DFB Cup finalists ( 1): 2005

Beşiktaş

• Turkish Cup Winner (1): 20062

Red Star

• Serbian champions (1): 20071

Scorer

• Bundesliga ( 1): 2004 (28 goals)
• DFB Cup (1): 2004 (6 goals)
• State championship of Rio Grande do Sul (1): 1995 ( 16 goals)
• Aílton is with 106 doors behind Claudio Pizarro and Giovane Élber (along with Stephane Chapuisat ) the third best foreign scorer in the history of the Bundesliga.

Honors

• Germany's Footballer of the Year: 2004
• Player of the Month: 1st November 2003; 2nd place in February 2004; 3rd August 2003
• Most efficient footballer: 2001, 2004

Others

Due to his achievements at Werder Bremen, he was elected in 2004 as the first foreign footballer of the year in Germany. After Stéphane Chapuisat (106) and Giovane Élber (133 ) scored Aílton as the third foreign player more than 100 goals in the Bundesliga.

Aílton has a reputation as an enfant terrible. He is regarded as highly talented, cold-blooded striker, but also as a fickle character who is easily offended and gives interviews full of melodrama. This setting he maintained both in Bremen and Schalke. Nevertheless Aílton was mainly in its Bremer time as an audience favorite. This popularity he no longer reached later in Schalke despite a quite respectable goal tally. Its connected with a little leg work play did not really fit the worker mentality of Ruhr clubs. In addition Aílton was criticized for he showed no joy at gates of his team-mates, which he has also the reputation of egoists, who plays for the team less than for personal success earned.

Since Aílton saw no chance of being appointed to the Brazilian national team, he played temporarily with the idea to take up German citizenship. Also an application for naturalization in Qatar was in question after the former German coach Rudi Voeller had seen no need. The FIFA Emergency Committee observed in 2004 but found that players who take on a new citizenship, no eligibility for the national teams of this association obtained when there is no respect for this country, for example, was born there parents or grandparents.

In March 2007, auctioned Ailton's former players' agent Werner Helleckes trophies and other personal items at the Brazilian Internet auction house eBay. Among other things, was the top scorer, the Aílton was awarded 04 2003 / offered. Reason for the auction were Helleckes information According debt Ailton with his advisor. On 9 March 2007, 80 minutes before the end, ebay deleted the auction with a bid of over 600,000 €. This was due to an injunction, which was obtained by Aílton. Then put Aílton the trophy up to the end of his career Werder Museum for the exhibition.

Media

Aílton was from 13 to 25 January 2012 as the candidate in the sixth season of I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here! to see. He also was a guest at Kaya Yanar Kaya show and Stefan Raab's TV total, as well as the auto - ball World Cup 2010 and the Wok World Championship in 2012. During a series of special broadcasts of TV format Oops! - The margins show in which celebrity guest presenters were used, Aílton moderated on April 12, 2012, a version of this broadcast.