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Personal information
Full name
Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite
Date of birth
April 22, 1982 (1982-04-22) (age 27)
Place of birth
Brasília,
BrazilHeight
1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position
Attacking midfielder /
Second strikerClub information
Current club
Real MadridNumber
8
Youth career
1990–2000
São PauloSenior career*
Years
Club
Apps†
(Gls)†
2001–2003
São Paulo59
(23)
2003–2009
Milan193
(70)
2009–
Real Madrid0
(0)
National team‡
2002–
Brazil70
(26)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 14:53, 15 June 2009 (UTC).
† Appearances (Goals).‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 14:53, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite (Portuguese pronunciation:
[xiˈkaɾdʊ iˈzɛksõ dʊsˈsɐ̃tʊs ˈleɪ̯tʃɪ]; born 22 April 1982), commonly known as Kaká, is a
Brazilian football midfielder who currently plays for
Real Madrid[1] and the
Brazilian national team. He is widely considered as one of the best footballers of his generation
[2], often drawing comparisons in style and ability to other great footballers as
Michel Platini,
Sócrates,
Zico, and
Pelé. His footballing style is unique as he has the technique of a Brazilian and the physical qualities of a
European.
[3] Kaká started his footballing career at the age of eight when he began playing for a local club called "Alphaville". By then, he also played
tennis and it was not until he moved on to
São Paulo FC and signed his first professional contract with the club at the age of 15 that he chose to focus on football. He was the recipient of both the
Ballon d'Or and
FIFA World Player of the Year awards in 2007. Besides his contributions on the pitch, Kaká is also famous for his humanitarian works and work against poverty. In 2004, by the time of his appointment, he became the youngest Ambassador of the
UNICEF food program. Having coming back from an almost paralyzing accident in 2001 at the age of 18, Kaká attributes his recovery to
God.
Contents[
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1 Early life2 Club career2.1 São Paulo2.2 Milan2.3 Real Madrid3 International career4 Personal life5 Nickname6 Career statistics6.1 Club6.2 International goals7 Honours7.1 International7.2 Individual8 References9 External links//
Early life
Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite was born in
Brasília to Bosco Izecson Pereira Leite (a
civil engineer) and Simone Cristina Santos Leite.[
citation needed] He had a financially-secure upbringing that allowed him to focus on both school and football at the same time.
[4] His younger brother Rodrigo (known as
Digão) is also a professional footballer.
When he was seven, his family moved to
São Paulo.
[5] His school had arranged him in a local youth club called "Alphaville," who qualified to the final in a local tournament.
[6] There he was discovered by hometown club
São Paulo FC, who offered an assignment.
[7]At the age of 18, Kaká suffered a career-threatening and possibly paralysis-inducing spinal fracture as a result of a swimming pool accident,
[8] but remarkably made a full recovery. He attributes his recovery to God and has since
tithed his income to his Church.
[9]Club career
São Paulo
Kaká began his career with grassroots club
São Paulo FC at the age of eight. He signed a contract at 15 and led the São Paulo youth squad to Copa de Juvenil glory. Kaká made his senior side debut in January 2001 and scored 12 goals in 27 appearances, in addition to leading São Paulo to its first and only
Torneio Rio-São Paulo championship where he scored two goals in two minutes in his first team debut as a substitute against
Botafogo in the final, which São Paulo won 2–1. He scored 10 goals in 22 matches the following season and by this time his performance was soon attracting attention from European clubs. Kaká made a total of 58 appearances for São Paulo, scoring 23 times.
[10]Milan
Kaká and Brazilian President
Lula.
The steady European interest in Kaká culminated in his signing with Italian club
AC Milan in 2003 for a fee of €8.5 million, described in retrospect as "peanuts" by club owner
Silvio Berlusconi.
[11] Within a month, he cracked the starting lineup, and his
Serie A debut was in a 2–0 win over
Ancona. He scored 10 goals in 30 appearances that season, as Milan won the
Scudetto and the
UEFA Super Cup. Kaká also finished his first season with an average game-score of 7.69 per game, ahead of Golden ball winner
Pavel Nedvěd, who had a 7.30 score. In comparison, other great playmakers of world football recorded considerably lower ratings during their debut seasons, such as
Diego Maradona (6.93),
Falcão (6.79),
Zico (6.74), and
Michel Platini (6.48).
[3]Kaká was a part of the five-man midfield in the
2004–05 season, usually playing in a withdrawn role behind striker
Andriy Shevchenko. He scored seven goals in 36 domestic appearances as Milan finished runner-up in the Scudetto race. Despite Milan losing the
2004–05 Champions League final to
Liverpool on penalties, he was nonetheless was voted the best midfielder of the tournament.
2005–06 saw Kaká score his first hat-tricks in domestic competition. On 9 April 2006, he scored his first Rossoneri hat-trick against
Chievo; all three goals were scored in the second half. The following season, he scored his first Champions League hat-trick in a 4–1 group stage win over the Belgian side
Anderlecht.
Andriy Shevchenko's departure to
Chelsea for the
2006–07 season allowed Kaká to become the focal point of Milan's offense as he alternated between the midfield and striker positions. He finished as the top scorer in the
2006–07 Champions League campaign with ten goals. One of them helped the Rossoneri eliminate
Celtic in the quarter-finals on a 1–0 aggregate, and three others proved fatal for
Manchester United in the semi-finals, despite Milan losing the first leg.
Kaká added the Champions League title to his trophy case for the first time when Milan defeated Liverpool on 23 May 2007. Though he went scoreless, he won a free kick that led to the first of
Filippo Inzaghi's two goals, and provided the assist for the second. For his stellar play throughout the competition, he was voted the
Vodafone Fans' Player of the Season in a poll of over 100,000 UEFA.com visitors. On 30 August, Kaká was named by UEFA as both the top forward of the
2006–07 Champions League season and
UEFA Club Footballer of the Year.
[12]He played his 200th career match with Milan in a 1–1 home draw with
Catania on 30 September, and on 5 October, he was named the 2006–07
FIFPro World Player of the Year. On 2 December 2007, Kaká became the eighth Milan player to win the
Ballon d'Or, as he finished with a decisive 444 votes, long ahead of runner-up
Cristiano Ronaldo.
[13] He signed a contract extension through 2013 with Milan on February 29, 2008.
[14]Due to his contributions on and off the pitch,
Time magazine named Kaká in the
Time 100, a list of the world's 100 most influential people, on 2 May.
[15] On 14 October, he cast his footprints into the
Estádio do Maracanã's sidewalk of fame, in a section dedicated to the memory of the country's top players.
[16] He won the honor again in 2009.
[17]The
BBC reported on 13 January 2009 that
Manchester City made a bid for Kaká for over £100 million. Milan director Umberto Gandini replied that Milan would only discuss the matter if Kaká and Manchester City agreed to personal terms.
[18] Kaká initially responded by telling reporters he wanted to "grow old" at Milan and dreamed of captaining the club one day, but later said, "If Milan want to sell me, I’ll sit down and talk. I can say that as long as the club don’t want to sell me, I'll definitely stay."
[19] On 19 January,
Silvio Berlusconi announced that Manchester City had officially ended their bid after a discussion between the clubs, and that Kaká would remain with Milan.
[20] Milan supporters had protested outside the club headquarters earlier that evening, and later chanted outside Kaká's home, where he saluted them by flashing his jersey outside a window.
[21]Real Madrid
Kaka,
Pepe and
Ronaldo in
Toronto,
Ontario (2009)
On 3 June 2009, Football Italia reported that newly-elected
Real Madrid president
Florentino Pérez had offered Milan a ₤68.5 million deal for Kaká,
[22] two days after the player had left for international duty with Brazil.
[23] Milan vice president
Adriano Galliani did not deny the reports, and confirmed that he and Kaká's father, Bosco Leite, had traveled to
Mexico to meet with La Volpe. "We had lunch and spoke about Kaká. I don't deny it. Negotiations exist, but a deal has yet to be done."
[24] On 4 June, Galliani told
Gazzetta dello Sport that financial reasons were his motive for the talks with La Volpe. "We cannot allow [Milan] to lose €70 million [...] The reasons behind Kaká's departure would be economic."
[24] On 8 June, Milan and Real Madrid confirmed Kaká has moved to the
Bernabéu on a six-year deal.
[25]Kaká made his unofficial debut in a friendly against
Toronto FC. He scored his first goal for
Real Madrid in the
pre-season from a penalty kick against
Borussia Dortmund, and Real Madrid won the game 5-0.
[26]International career
Kaká with Brazil
Kaká was called up for the
2001 FIFA World Youth Championship, but the
Brazilians crashed out to
Ghana in the quarter-finals. Several months later, he made his debut for the senior Brazil squad in a friendly match against
Bolivia on 31 January 2002. He was part of the
2002 FIFA World Cup-winning squad, but played only 25 minutes,
[27] all of which were in the first round match against
Costa Rica.
In 2003, Kaká was the captain for the
2003 CONCACAF Gold Cup tournament, where Brazil, competing as with their
under-23 team, finished as runner-up to
Mexico. He scored three goals during the tournament. He was included in Brazil's squad for
2005 FIFA Confederations Cup in
Germany. He appeared in all five matches and scored one goal in a 4–1 win over
Argentina in the final.
Kaká started in his first
FIFA World Cup finals in
2006 and scored his first and only goal of the tournament in Brazil's 1–0 victory over
Croatia in Brazil's opener, for which he was named
Man of the Match.
[28] He was unable to keep up the momentum for the remainder of the tournament, as Brazil was eliminated by
France in the quarter-finals. In a friendly against rivals Argentina on 3 September 2006, after entering as a substitute, he received the ball off a deflection from an Argentina corner kick and outran
Lionel Messi while taking the ball down three quarters of the field to score.
[29]On 12 May 2007, citing an exhaustive schedule of
Serie A,
Champions League, and national team play, Kaká bowed out of the
2007 Copa América, which Brazil won.
[30] After missing out on the Copa América, he returned to play in Brazil's friendly match against
Algeria on 22 August 2007.
Kaká participated in the
2009 FIFA Confederations Cup, marking his first international tournament since the 2006 World Cup. His only two goals came in Brazil's group stage opener against
Egypt on 14 June, when he scored a goal in the fifth minute and then added a 90th-minute penalty in Brazil's 4–3 victory.
[31] He received the Golden Ball as the player of the tournament at the Confederations Cup and was also named the Man of the Match in the final after helping Brazil to a 3-2 win against the
United States.
[32][33][34]Personal life
Kaká with his wife Caroline
A devout
evangelical Christian, Kaká became engrossed in religion at the age of 12: "I learnt that it is faith that decides whether something will happen or not." He removed his jersey to reveal an "I Belong to
Jesus" t-shirt and openly engaged in prayer moments after the final whistle of Brazil's 2002 World Cup, and Milan's 2004 Scudetto and 2007 Champions League triumphs. He also had the same phrase, along with "God Is Faithful," stitched onto the tongues of his boots.
[35] During the postmatch celebration following Brazil's 4–1 win over
Argentina in the
2005 FIFA Confederations Cup final, he and several of his teammates wore t-shirts that read "Jesus Loves You" in various languages.
Kaká is a member of the organization Atletas de Cristo ("Athletes of Christ").
[36] His goal celebration consists of him pointing to the sky as a gesture of thanks to God. Kaká's favourite music is
gospel,
[37] and his favourite book is the
Bible.
[38] Since November 2004, he has served as an Ambassador Against Hunger for the
United Nations'
World Food Programme, the youngest to do so at the time of his appointment.
Kaká was sworn in as an Italian citizen on 12 February 2007.
[39] He features prominently in
adidas advertising and also has a modeling contract with
Armani, the latter preventing him from appearing in a photo collection alongside his Milan teammates that was published by
Dolce & Gabbana in early 2007.
He married his childhood sweetheart Caroline Celico on 23 December 2005 at the evangelical
Reborn in Christ Church in
São Paulo.
[40] Their first child, Luca Celico Leite, was born in São Paulo on 10 June 2008.
[41]Raí, the former
Brazilian and
São Paulo FC captain, has always been the idol of Kaká.
[3]Kaká's best friend is
Chivas USA midfielder and fellow Brazilian
Marcelo Saragosa. They both served as best man at each other's wedding
[42].[
citation needed]
Nickname
His nickname is pronounced as it is spelled, with stress on the second syllable, and is a common
term of endearment of "Ricardo" in Brazil. In Kaká's case, it was born from younger brother
Rodrigo calling him "Cacá" due to his inability to pronounce "Ricardo" when they were young; it eventually evolved into Kaká.
[35]Career statistics
Club
Updated to games played 31 May 2009
[43]Club
Season
DomesticLeague
DomesticCups
ContinentalCompetitions1
OtherTournaments2
Total
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
São Paulo200127
12
1
2
5
0
-
-
33
14
200222
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
22
9
200310
2
10
5
-
-
-
-
20
7
Total
59
23
11
7
5
0
-
-
75
30
Milan2003–0430
10
4
0
10
4
1
0
45
14
2004–0536
7
1
0
13
2
1
0
51
9
2005–0635
14
2
0
12
5
-
-
49
19
2006–0731
8
2
0
15
10
-
-
48
18
2007–0830
15
-
-
9
3
2
1
41
19
2008–0931
16
1
0
4
0
-
-
36
16
Total
193
70
10
0
63
24
4
1
270
95
Real Madrid2009–10-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Total
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Career Totals
252
93
21
7
68
24
4
1
345
125
1Continental competitions include the
Copa Libertadores,
UEFA Champions League,
UEFA Super Cup and
UEFA Cup2Other tournaments include the
Supercoppa Italiana,
Intercontinental Cup and
FIFA Club World CupInternational goals
#
Date
Venue
Opponent
Score
Result
Competition
1.
March 7, 2002
Cuiabá, BrazilIceland6–1
Win
Friendly2.
July 19, 2003
Miami, USAColombia2–0
Win
CONCACAF Gold Cup 20033.
July 19, 2003
Miami, USAColombia2–0
Win
CONCACAF Gold Cup 20034.
July 23, 2003
Miami, USAUnited States2–1
Win
CONCACAF Gold Cup 20035.
September 7, 2003
Barranquilla, ColombiaColombia1–2
Win
FIFA World Cup Qualification 20066.
October 11, 2003
Curitiba, BrazilUruguay3–3
Draw
FIFA World Cup Qualification 20067.
April 28, 2004
Budapest, HungaryHungary1–4
Win
Friendly8.
October 10, 2004
Maracaibo, VenezuelaVenezuela2–5
Win
FIFA World Cup Qualification 20069.
October 10, 2004
Maracaibo, VenezuelaVenezuela2–5
Win
FIFA World Cup Qualification 200610.
March 27, 2005
Goiânia, BrazilPeru1–0
Win
FIFA World Cup Qualification 200611.
June 29, 2005
Frankfurt, GermanyArgentina4–1
Win
FIFA Confederations Cup 200512.
November 10, 2005
Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates0–8
Win
Friendly13.
June 4, 2006
Geneva, SwitzerlandNew Zealand4–0
Win
Friendly14.
June 13, 2006
Berlin, GermanyCroatia1–0
Win
FIFA World Cup 200615.
September 3, 2006
London, EnglandArgentina3–0
Win
Friendly16.
October 10, 2006
Stockholm, SwedenEcuador2–1
Win
Friendly17.
November 15, 2006
Basel, SwitzerlandSwitzerland1–2
Win
Friendly18.
March 24, 2007
Göteborg, SwedenChile4–0
Win
Friendly19.
September 12, 2007
Foxborough, USAMexico3–1
Win
Friendly20.
October 17, 2007
Rio de Janeiro, BrazilEcuador5–0
Win
FIFA World Cup Qualification 201021.
October 17, 2007
Rio de Janeiro, BrazilEcuador5–0
Win
FIFA World Cup Qualification 201022.
November 18, 2007
Lima, PeruPeru1–1
Draw
FIFA World Cup Qualification 201023.
October 11, 2008
San Cristobal, VenezuelaVenezuela4–0
Win
FIFA World Cup Qualification 201024.
June 6, 2009
Montevideo, UruguayUruguay4–0
Win
FIFA World Cup Qualification 201025.
June 15, 2009
Bloemfontein, South AfricaEgypt4–3
Win
2009 FIFA Confederations Cup26.
June 15, 2009
Bloemfontein, South AfricaEgypt4–3
Win
2009 FIFA Confederations CupHonours
São PauloCopa São Paulo de Juniores: 2000
Torneio Rio-São Paulo: 2001
MilanSerie A:
2003–04Italian Super Cup:
2003–04UEFA Champions League:
2006–07UEFA Super Cup:
2003-04,
2007–08FIFA Club World Cup:
2007–08International
FIFA World Cup:
2002FIFA Confederations Cup:
2005,
2009Individual
Revista Placar Bola de Ouro: 2002
Campeonato Brasileiro Bola de Prata (best player by position): 2002
CONCACAF Gold Cup Best XI: 2003
Serie A Best new player: 2003
Serie A Foreign Footballer of the Year: 2004, 2006, 2007
Serie A Footballer of the Year: 2004, 2007
UEFA Champions League Bronze Top scorer: 2005–06
UEFA Champions League Best Midfielder: 2005
UEFA Team of the Year: 2006, 2007
FIFPro World XI: 2006, 2007, 2008
Pallone d'Argento: 2006–07
UEFA Champions League Top Scorer: 2006–07
UEFA Champions League Best Forward: 2006–07
UEFA Club Footballer of the Year: 2006-07
FIFPro World Player of the Year: 2007
Ballon d'Or:
2007FIFA Club World Cup Golden Ball: 2007
Toyota Award: 2007
FIFA World Player of the Year: 2007
Onze d'Or: 2007
IFFHS World‘s Best Playmaker: 2007
IAAF Latin Sportsman of the Year: 2007
Time 100: 2008, 2009
Maracanã Hall Of Fame: 2008
Samba d'Or: 2008
FIFA Team of the Year: 2008
FIFA Confederations Cup Golden Ball: 2009
FIFA Confederations Cup Best XI: 2009
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