Ady (footballer)
Tunisian footballer (born 1973)
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Adailton Pereira dos Santos (Arabic: أديلتون بيريرا دوس سانتوس ; born 18 April 1973), better known as Ady or Messias, is a former professional footballer who last played for MyPa in the Finnish Veikkausliiga.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Adailton Pereira dos Santos | ||
| Date of birth | 18 April 1973 | ||
| Place of birth | Caatiba, Brazil[1] | ||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Position | Midfielder | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1993–1994 | Poções | ||
| 1994–1996 | Bahia | 17 | (2) |
| 1996–1997 | Santa Cruz | ||
| 1997–1998 | Madureira | ||
| 1998 | Goiás | ||
| 1998 | Santos FC | 14 | (2) |
| 1999–2000 | Portuguesa | 12 | (2) |
| 2000–2003 | Espérance Tunis | 8 | (2) |
| 2003 | Al-Qadsiah | 26 | (4) |
| 2003–2005 | Alahly Tripoli | ||
| 2005–2007 | TPS Turku | 57 | (18) |
| 2008 | JJK | 25 | (3) |
| 2009–2010 | MyPa | 23 | (2) |
| Total | 150+ | (28+) | |
| International career | |||
| 2001 | Tunisia | 2[2] | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Born in Brazil, he became a naturalized Tunisian citizen, and represented the Tunisia national football team.[3][2]
Club career
Ady started his career as a child, in the Arthur Leite stadium in his hometown.[citation needed] As a teenager, he started to be noted as a good soccer player in a local championship called Liga Desportiva Caatibense, and later, he moved with his agent's help to Itambé, playing for the local soccer team. Later, he was hired by Poções soccer team to contest Bahia's state soccer championship. After a good performance in this competition, he signed a contract with Esporte Clube Bahia and then his career reached the national level.
He also played for the Santa Cruz, Madureira and Goiás Football Club. And then became part of Santos FC, in which he played 15 matches in the Brazilian Championship of 1998. In 1999, he transferred to the Portuguesa team, but it did not last long.
Little used in "Lusa do Canindé", he received a proposal from Tunisian football. He accepted, traveled and began his international career. With a solid career and notoriety at Espérance de Tunis, he became naturalized and played for the national team of that country, playing in the World Cup qualifiers and with the intention of playing in the 2002 FIFA World Cup,[4] but ended up not being called up for the World Cup.
After leaving Espérance, Ady played for Al Ahly Tripoli in Libya from 2003 to 2005. In 2005, he started his career in Finland, playing for TPS until 2007; then at JJK Jyväskylä in 2008 and from 2009 to 2010 at MyPa, where he would end his career at the age of 37.[2]
International career
After playing for Espérance de Tunis for one year, he became naturalized and made two friendly appearances for Tunisia against Togo and Liberia with the intention of playing in the 2002 FIFA World Cup,[5] but he ended up not being called up for the World Cup and ended his international career with two caps for Tunisia.[2]
Personal life
Ady's son Alisson Santos is also a professional footballer.[6]