Brazilian footballer
Luiz Carlos Bombonato Goulart , known asLuizão (born 14 November 1975), is a Brazilianfootball pundit and retiredforward .
He was capped 12 times forBrazil , scoring two goals in the last match of the2002 FIFA World Cup qualification againstVenezuela , a 3–0 victory overall. This performance confirmed Luizão as part of the World Cup-winning squad coached byLuiz Felipe Scolari .
Luizão was born inRubinéia . He is one of the few players, alongsideAntônio Carlos ,Müller ,Neto andCésar Sampaio that played for the four major clubs ofSão Paulo :Santos Futebol Clube ,Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras ,Sport Club Corinthians Paulista andSão Paulo Futebol Clube . He managed to be the top goalscorer of at least one tournament for each one of them, except for Santos, where he underachieved.
Luizão bloomed atGuarani Futebol Clube , playing alongside close friendsDjalminha andMárcio Amoroso . Luizão (with Djalminha) was then transferred to Palmeiras, where he won many titles, including aSão Paulo State Championship under the command ofVanderlei Luxemburgo , where he scored 22 of 102 squad goals.
He then followed Djalminha toLa Liga 'sDeportivo de La Coruña , but unlike the talentedplaymaker , Luizão failed to settle. He returned to Brazil toClub de Regatas Vasco da Gama . In July 2002, he had another unsuccessful abroad stint, with GermanBundesliga sideHertha BSC , leaving the side in January 2004.
The 35-year-old forward (as of 2010[update] ), who was a free agent after terminating his contract with São Caetano. He came to sign with other teams asGuaratinguetá ,[ 2] but has not played in any match for them.
Appearances and goals by national team and year National team Year Apps Goals Brazil 1996 1 1 1997 0 0 1998 0 0 1999 0 0 2000 1 0 2001 3 2 2002 7 1 Total 12 4
Paraná
Palmeiras
Vasco da Gama
Corinthians
São Paulo
Flamengo
Brazil
Awards
1989:Gérson 1990:Bizu 1991:Gérson 1992:Gérson 1993:Gilson 1994:Paulinho McLaren 1995:Sávio 1996:Luizão 1997:Paulo Nunes 1998:Romário 1999:Romário &Petković 2000:Oséas 2001:Washington 2002:Deivid 2003:Nonato 2004:Dauri 2005:Fred 2006:Valdiram 2007:André Lima ,Dênis Marques ,Dimba &Victor Simões 2008:Edmundo ,Romerito &Wellington Paulista 2009:Taison 2010:Neymar 2011:Alecsandro ,Adriano ,Rafael Coelho ,Kléber &William 2012:Luís Fabiano 2013:Hernane 2014:Bill ,Gabriel Barbosa &Léo Gamalho 2015:Gabriel Barbosa 2016:Marinho 2017:Barrios ,Léo Gamalho &Rafael Sóbis 2018:Gabriel Barbosa ,Neilton &Rômulo 2019:Guerrero ,Luciano &Pipico 2020:Brenner ,Léo Gamalho ,Nenê &Rodolfo 2021:Hulk 2022:Cano &Giuliano 2023:Lorran ,Manga ,Pedro &Tiquinho 2024:Vegetti
1960 :Spencer 1961 :Panzutto 1962 :Coutinho ,Raymondi &Spencer 1963 :Sanfilippo 1964 :Rodríguez 1965 :Pelé 1966 :Onega 1967 :Raffo 1968 :Tupãzinho 1969 :Ferrero 1970 :Bertocchi &Más 1971 :Artime &Castronovo 1972 :Cubillas ,Ramírez ,Rojas &Toninho Guerreiro 1973 :Caszely 1974 :Morena ,Rocha &Terto 1975 :Morena &Ramírez 1976 :Palhinha 1977 :Scotta 1978 :La Rosa &Scotta 1979 :Miltão &Oré 1980 :Victorino 1981 :Zico 1982 :Morena 1983 :Luzardo 1984 :Tita 1985 :Sánchez 1986 :De Lima 1987 :Gareca 1988 :Iguarán 1989 :Aguilera &Amarilla 1990 :Samaniego 1991 :Gaúcho 1992 :Palhinha 1993 :Almada 1994 :Rivas 1995 :Jardel 1996 :De Ávila 1997 :Acosta 1998 :Sérgio João 1999 :Bonilla ,Fernando Baiano ,Gauchinho ,Morán &Sosa 2000 :Luizão 2001 :Lopes 2002 :Rodrigo Mendes 2003 :M. Delgado &Ricardo Oliveira 2004 :Luís Fabiano 2005 :Salcedo 2006 :Aloísio ,F. Borja ,Calderón ,A. Delgado ,Ereros ,Farías ,Fernandão ,Marcinho ,Nilmar ,Montenegro ,Pavone ,Quinteros ,Urrutia &Washington 2007 :Cabañas 2008 :Cabañas &Moreno 2009 :Boselli 2010 :Thiago Ribeiro 2011 :Nanni &Wallyson 2012 :Alustiza &Neymar 2013 :Jô 2014 :Dos Santos &Olivera 2015 :Bou 2016 :Calleri 2017 :Sand 2018 :M. Borja &Morelo 2019 :Gabriel 2020 :Martínez 2021 :Gabriel 2022 :Pedro 2023 :Cano 2024 :Jr. Santos