The Official Adriano Thread

[Gunplay]

All the news you'll need to know about the next Pele *cough*

[Del Boy]

Well Chelsea are the only team to have bid £14 million for him, yet he wants to join Real Madrid.

Oh, i thought you said the next Pele so i assumed you meant Robinho.

Right Adriano, huh, too big for his boots, need an attitude change or will never settle at any club.

[Fab]

Attitude?
And what makes you think this?
If your going by on the thread about Pele and Adriano then that isnt enough evidence about his attitude.

And to big for his boots he is not, read that thread again, he says he is still young and says that Shevchenco deserves the Balon D'Or.

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personally i feel that with his goal scoring record over the last year.. he has the right to be a little errogant.. and cocky.. because he has delivered the goods...

[Gunplay]

Originally Posted by Fab

Juventus' star midfielder Pavel Nedved has pinpointed Adriano as the danger when they clash with Internazionale on Sunday.

The Italian giants meet at Giuseppe Meazza this weekend and Nedved wants his colleagues to keep the Brazilian superstar quiet.

Juventus, who currently top Serie A, come into the game in form following their UEFA Champions League win over Ajax while Inter secured a point away to Werder Bremen.

"Adriano is who I fear the most," said Nedved. "His strength is not human. We will have to be really attentive. He's extraterrestrial.

"We won't be complacent due to the difference in the standings between us and Inter. We know they are a strong side, like us and we'll play our normal game."

Inter coach Roberto Mancini is hoping to use the game to bring the Nerazzurri to within 12 points of the summit of the Serie A table.

"We are behind them in the standings and we must try to beat Juve in order to close the gap and play our coming matches with confidence," said Mancini.

"We had the right mentality in the Champions League against Werder Bremen. We'll need to concentrate hard and be very relaxed."

Inter owner Massimo Moratti, who has been critical of the club's defence this season, was happy with the back-line against Werder on Wednesday.

The Nerazzurri supremo was also pleased with the forwards consisting of Christian Vieri, Julio Cruz and Obafemi Martins ahead of the Juve tie.

"The defence played really well and the team deserved the result," said Moratti. "I like Inter this evening. Vieri, Cruz and Martins, also played really well too."

Source: http://skysports.planetfootball.com/...points+Adriano

[Fab]

nice one Gunplay, cheers for putting my post here , i forgot about this thread.

[Fisherman]

Adriano was voted Inter's Gentlemen of the season 2003/2004

He is apparently extremely humble, But has confidence in himself. You'd have to have confidence to be that good.

[fatsooo25]

so whats this about robinho then, chelsea have bid 14 million ehh, everyone wants to play 4 real lol is robiniho just very talnted and a play maker sriker or is he a goalscorer like adriano. adriano resembles a young ronaldo, if ronaldo diddnt get injured i think he would be getting 30 goals a season even now, hopefully adriano can live up to this, he has better tsrength than ronaldo had.

[label]

Adriano really is something. May be the best forward in the world in some years. And with his goal record, and skills, he really has the right to be a little cocky. Although I don't support acting like that.
He's strong, he's skillful, has a fiery shot. He's everything that you would want your teams top striker to be. I mean, Henry. He has a great technique, and his fast, but so is Adriano. Henry doesn't have the strength that Adriano has. That's why I would put Adriano over Henry in my team always.
For RVN. He's the most dangerous striker, when he's inside the penalty box, but outside it, he can't do so many good things. Adriano with his technique and shot, can score from 20-30 metres.
Hopefully he keeps going. The football world needs guys like him.

[S-D-P]

Originally Posted by Del Boy

Well Chelsea are the only team to have bid £14 million for him, yet he wants to join Real Madrid.

Oh, i thought you said the next Pele so i assumed you meant Robinho.

Right Adriano, huh, too big for his boots, need an attitude change or will never settle at any club.

wouldn't you be a bit big for your boots if you were scoring goals for fun and half of europe were after you.

[Fisherman]

Adriano takes hard route to the top

Simon Evans | December 01, 2004 11:30 IST



Inter Milan striker Adriano was recently described by his Brazil coach Carlos Alberto Parreira as being like a horse and it is not only his physique that makes the simile appropriate.

Adriano has the pedigree, having learnt the game of soccer at Brazilian club Flamengo and then at Parma, the breeding ground for so many of Serie A's top performers.

But his background also means he has had to leap many hurdles as he has battled his way from poverty to become one of the most feared and respected strikers in the game.

The 22-year-old Adriano's record this season for Inter speaks for itself -- in 19 Serie A and Champions League matches he has scored 17 times, many of them spectacular solo strikes.

It was always going to take someone special to help Inter fans forget the 'great betrayal', when another Brazilian, Ronaldo, walked out on them for Real Madrid.

Inter have gained a reputation for expensive mistakes in the transfer market -- bringing in players who fail to perform while selling others who go on to enjoy great careers elsewhere -- and Adriano so nearly became another who slipped through their hands.

Given Adriano's personal history it is not surprising that he has been able to adapt and survive the difficult early experiences in Serie A.

He grew up in the Vila Cruzeiro, a shanty town in Rio de Janeiro, his father Almir Ribeiro worked as an office boy and his mother Rosilda was only 17 when he was born.

"They didn't earn much and life was tough," the player said in a recent interview.

DRUGS GANGS

When he was seven years old, Adriano was playing with other children when he saw a youth shot dead, apparently victim of a drugs-related fight. A number of his childhood friends have ended up as members of drugs gangs.

Then when he was 10 years old his father was shot in the head by a stray bullet during a shootout.

Almir Ribeiro survived but, as he could not pay for surgery, the bullet remained lodged in his head.

Adriano's father died earlier this year, apparently from a heart condition.

The striker's route out of the shanty was to join Flamengo's youth scheme but as could not afford the bus fares for the journey across Rio to training he wore his school shirt to get a free ride.

It was worth the trick. At Flamengo he worked his way up to the first team and while the fans were unimpressed by his clumsiness, Emerson Leao, Brazil's coach at the time, quickly saw his potential and he was given his international debut in November 2000 at the age of 18.

His arrival at Inter in the close season of 2001 was barely noticed -- he was young and one of the lesser known players among a raft of new faces.

But he made an instant impact in a pre-season friendly against Real Madrid when he scored with a thundering, long-range free-kick that was replayed throughout the summer weeks.

That was enough to ensure that he at least started the season with Inter rather than being loaned out to a minor club -- the fate of so many young new arrivals at top Serie A clubs.

But after just eight appearances and a single goal he was loaned to Fiorentina.

PARMA SALE

The Florence club, fighting a doomed battle against relegation and bankruptcy, hardly seemed the ideal place for an inexperienced youngster to learn his trade but his six goals in 15 games and determined displays showed he had a future in Serie A.

But it was not a future with Inter.

As part of a series of transfer deals, Adriano was sold to Parma but the move at least allowed the Brazilian to get regular action at a club where there was not the instant pressure for success that afflicts Inter.

It took just one season for Inter to regret the sale as, alongside another Inter 'reject', Romanian Adrian Mutu, Adriano scored 15 times for Parma.

He was in even better form in the following campaign when he struck eight goals in the opening nine games before he was sidelined by a knee injury.

While he was recovering, Parma slumped into a financial crisis due to a scandal at their owners Parmalat, and it became clear that the club would have to offload the striker who had become their biggest asset.

There was no shortage of clubs interested in signing him but for once Inter had been smart in their dealings and, having retained part-ownership of his registration, they had first option on buying him.

Since establishing himself at Inter Adriano has also fought his way into the Brazil side and his goals helped them to win the Copa America when he finished top scorer in the tournament with seven goals.

Despite that achievement he is not yet a regular starter in the Brazil line-up, with Parreira preferring to pair Barcelona's Ronaldinho with Ronaldo in attack.

Adriano says he is willing to be patient but he will be ready when his chance comes again.

"I'm happy to be part of Parreira's plans," he told Reuters recently. "I see myself as part of the group. From now on, I'm going to try and stay in the squad and show what I'm worth. I'm still very young".

[Gunplay]

Nice post Fisherman. I didn't know Adriano went from rags to riches.

[S-D-P]

i remember a few years ago when united played parma in the amsterdam tournament adriano was a right mess,he was overweight and a pile of shit and he has improved so much.I think he was unhappy at parma wich contributed to his slow start in italian football,but look at him now.

[Fisherman]

Adriano has never been fat!!! He is just a ox, a pure beast

Don't be decieved, When you see him you think typical target man until you see him play

Unstoppable striker

[S-D-P]

Originally Posted by Fisherman

Adriano has never been fat!!! He is just a ox, a pure beast

Don't be decieved, When you see him you think typical target man until you see him play

Unstoppable striker

don't fuckin patronise,it was known when he was younger he was overweight because the parma boss lambasted him about it,then he lost weight and became much sharper.