Caio Canedo Corrêa

Caio Canedo Correa is an association footballer who plays for Al Ain.[1] Born in Brazil, he represents the United Arab Emirates team.

Caio Canedo
Personal information
Full name Caio Canedo Corrêa
Date of birth (1990-08-09) August 9, 1990
Place of birth Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Forward / Attacking midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Al Ain
Number 7
Youth career
2007–2009 Volta Redonda
2008 → São Paulo (loan)
2009 → Botafogo (loan)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2008–2009 Volta Redonda 0 (0)
2009 → Botafogo (loan) 0 (0)
2010–2012 Botafogo 55 (2)
2012 → Figueirense (loan) 26 (9)
2013–2015 Internacional 12 (2)
2014 → Vitória (loan) 18 (5)
2014–2015 → Al Wasl (loan) 22 (16)
2015–2019 Al Wasl 66 (37)
2019– Al Ain 18 (6)
National team‡
2020– United Arab Emirates 2 (1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 10:31, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 10:31, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

Career

In 2001, Caio was living with parents in the city of Nantucket, an island off Cape Cod in Massachusetts, and gained prominence playing on the soccer team at his high school. But five years and some months later, when preparing for a promising future in the sport in the United States, he decided to return to Brazil to realize the dream of being a professional.

Caio Canedo started a youth in the junior category, the basic divisions of Volta Redonda. With a good performances on the youth team, he was promoted to direct professional, with the opportunity to train with São Paulo. After four months training with the team, the managers of the two clubs failed to reach an agreement to join São Paulo. He tested with the club Udinese in Italy, but did not join the team because of the limitation on foreigners. Caio decided to return to Volta Redonda and joined the team's professional club.

In 2009, Caio moved to Botafogo on loan. Alvinegro by the attacker ran the Tournament Otávio Pinto Guimarães and Campeonato Brasileiro Sub-20, having been on the bench for the first time in the last game of the 2009 Brazilian Championship against Palmeiras. With his good performance in the juniors, the club signed him in the end, throwing him to the team working alvinegro for the 2010 season 2010.

In 2010, Caio became a kind of talisman of coach Joel Santana, getting into three games of the Taça Guanabara and making three goals, including the guarantee that the job club at the end of Guanabara Cup in play against the favorite Flamengo.

In January 2013, Caio joined to Internacional and must be a substitute for Taison, because Colorado needs a speed forward since that the current player of FC Shakhtar Donetsk left the club, in 2010.[1]

International career

In January 2020, Caio, who is Brazilian-born, acquired Emirati citizenship which qualified him to play for United Arab Emirates national football team to compete at the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC).[2] Together with Sebastián Tagliabué, they would be the first Latin Americans to represent the United Arab Emirates in football, in a rare move by the country to change the country's football fortune in the qualification. Caio debuted with the United Arab Emirates in a friendly 3-2 win over Tajikistan on 12 November 2020.[3]

An inquiry held by the Prime Minister of East Timor in 2016 heard that Caio was one of seven Brazilian footballers to receive falsified baptism documents from Timor's Catholic Church, in order to make it appear he was eligible for Timorese nationality.[4]

All seven players are based in Asia, but only one, Juninho, has played for Timor's controversial national side.

Caio received his Timorese passport in 2015,[5] despite having no known means of eligibility, such as a family connection, or residency.[6]

His Dubai-based club, Al Wasl, delayed playing him until his new passport arrived, therefore meaning he could be used as an Asian player, rather than an international player.

Career statistics
As of match played on 11 April 2017.[7]
Club Season League Cup International Others State League Total
AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Botafogo
2009 0000--003030
2010 35140--00177568
2011 20161--21154437
2012 0040--20142202
Total 552141--41491312217
Figueirense
2012 26900--0000269
Total 26900------269
Internacional
2013 0032--00121153
Total 0032----121153
Al Wasl
2015-16 23965--00002914
2016-17 201182--00002813
Total 4320147------5727
Career Total 124313110--41611422056

Honours
Botafogo
Internacional

References
  1. "Inter apresenta Vítor Júnior e Gilberto; Caio deve ser anunciado em breve Inter presents Vítor Júnior and Gilberto; Caio must be announced soon". Archived from the original on 2013-02-19. Retrieved 2013-01-11.
  2. "Al Ain FC's Caio Canedo Correa gets UAE citizenship". Khaleej Times. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
  3. Jose, James. "Saleh strikes in stoppage time as UAE edge past Tajikistan". Khaleej Times.
  4. "Deskonfia Paroquia Balun Falsifika Dokumentu, Kontribui Instabilidade – STL Online". Suara-timor-lorosae.com. 2016-01-06. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
  5. "'Al Wasl have to fight at the top': Caio Canedo talks Dubai club's ambitions". The National.
  6. Jack Kerr. "Success Is No Longer Foreign to East Timor, but the Players Are - The New York Times". Nytimes.com. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
  7. Caio Canedo Corrêa at Soccerway
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