Flávio Amado

Flávio Amado

Personal information
Full name	Flávio Amado da Silva
Height	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Position(s)	Centre forward , Deep-lying forward
Team information
Current team	Al-Shabab
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 11/01/2010

Flávio Amado da Silva (born 30 December 1979), better known as Flávio, is an Angolan football forward who currently, as of May 2009, plays for Al-Shabab in Saudi Arabia.

He is a member of the national team, and was called up to the 2006 World Cup, in which he scored Angola's only goal of the tournament, with a header against Iran to clinch a 1-1 draw.

He scored 3 goals for Angola in African Cup of Nations Egypt 2006, although they went out from the first round. His goals were against Cameroon and Togo.

He helped his team Al-Ahly to participate in the FIFA Club World Championship two successive times in 2005 and 2006. In FIFA Club World Championship 2006 opening match against Auckland City FC of New Zealand, 10 Dec 2006, Flavio scored the first goal with an accurate shot, giving Al-Ahly a 2-0 win.

In semi-final, Al-Ahly faced South American champions Internacional on 13 Dec 2006, and Flavio played a decent game, scoring the draw goal with a great header in the second half. However, Al-Ahly eventually lost the match 1-2.

After having a very unsuccessful first season with the team during which he scored only one goal in the league, and being jeered by fans at many times, most notably when he missed a penalty kick against rivals El Zamalek in the African Champions League, Flavio had a very successful second season in 2006-2007, seeing him top the goalscorers chart of the Egyptian Premier league with 17 goals, a single goal ahead of international Egyptian teammate Emad Moteab. He proved to be instrumental in Al-Ahly's formation in the next years, scoring many vital goals in critical moments. Generally Flavio keeps an extremely low profile and rarely appears in the media or give any press statements. Such attitude is highly appreciated by his club administration, since it agrees with the club's policies.

In his last season with Al-Ahly (2008-2009), Flavio managed to score Al-Ahly's only goal during the Egyptian Premier League play-off against Ismaily, handing the title to Al-Ahly for the fifth time in row and rewarding himself with the second personal title of the Egyptian Premier League Top Goalscorer, for the third time as a foreign player in the Egyptian Premier League history after John Utaka with Ismaily during the 2000-2001 season, then Flavio himself formerly during the 2006-2007 season.

Honours

National Team

• Qualified for the 2006 World Cup with Angola for the first time ever, and scored Angola's only World Cup goal in their history so far (despite playing for only thirty-nine minutes during the whole tournament).

Al-Ahly

• Winner of CAF Champions League 2005, CAF Champions League 2006, CAF Champions League 2008.
• Top goalscorer of Egyptian Premier League 2006/07 (17 Goals) and 2008/09 (12 Goals).
• Winner of Egyptian League 2005/06, 2006/07, 2007/08, 2008/09.
• Winner of CAF Super Cup 2006, 2007, 2009.
• Winner of Egyptian Soccer Cup 2006, 2007, .
• Winner of Egyptian Super Cup 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008.
• Bronze Medal of FIFA Club World Cup 2006.

Petro Atletico

• Winner of Angolan Girabola 2000.
• Winner of Angolan Girabola 2001.
• Winner of Angolan Cup 2000.
• Winner of Angolan Cup 2002.
• Winner of Angolan SuperCup 2002.

Individual

• Best player in the CAF Champions League 2001 playing for Petro Atletico of Luanda.

External links

• Flávio Amado – FIFA competition record (archived)
• Download Flavio's goal in Iran, World Cup 2006