Caio Canedo Corrêa

Caio

Personal information
Full name	Caio Canedo Corrêa
Date of birth	August 9, 1990
Place of birth	Volta Redonda, Brazil
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Playing position	Forward / Attacking midfielder
Club information
Current team	Al Wasl
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)	13	(7)
2015–	Al Wasl
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 2012. † Appearances (goals)

Caio Canedo Correa, simply known as Caio (born August 9, 1990 in Volta Redonda) is a Brazilian footballer. He currently plays for Al Wasl as a attacker.^[1]

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.

On 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]

Career Statistics

As of match played on 21 March 2013.^[2]

Club	Season	Brasileirão		Copa do Brasil		Copa Libertadores		Sudamericana		State League		Total
		Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Botafogo
	2009	0	0	0	0	-	-	0	0	3	0	3	0
	2010	35	1	4	0	-	-	0	0	17	7	56	8
	2011	20	1	6	1	-	-	2	1	15	4	43	7
	2012	0	0	4	0	-	-	2	0	14	2	20	2
Figueirense
	2012	26	9	0	0	-	-	0	0	0	0	26	9
Internacional
	2013	0	0	3	2	-	-	0	0	12	1	15	3
Total		81	11	17	3	-	-	4	1	61	14	163	29

Honours

Botafogo

• Campeonato Carioca: 2010

Internacional

• Campeonato Gaúcho: 2013, 2014

Contract

• Botafogo.^[3]

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
2. "Leandro Damião da Silva dos Santos". Soccerway. Global Sports Media. Retrieved 19 July 2011.
3. CBF Registry (in Portuguese)

External links

• Caio Canedo Corrêa at footballzz.co.uk