Name – Luis Fabiano Clemente a.k.a Luis Fabiano
Affiliation - Sevilla
Reason for coolness – 15 goals in 14 games so far this season. Also, his mum was held hostage for 61 days in 2005 before the police stormed the gunmen’s hideout and presumably killed them. Gangsta.
Reason for obscurity – Labelled a ‘bad boy’ early on in his career following numerous brawls on the pitch, and then in a 2004 match for São Paulo against River Plate of Argentina, studded someone violently in the neck and was banned for three games. As you can see from this though, he’s actually a bit of lady when it comes to fighting, not that I’d tell him that :
Yet another fantastic striker with a great career record that has never really made an impact for the Brazilian national side, playing only 14 times since his debut in 2003. At aged 27 however, it seems that Fabiano is now finally starting to settle down as a regular goal machine for the third best team in
He enjoyed great success for home sideSao Paulo, notching up a phenomenal 118 goals in 160 games at the start of his career, but faltering spells in
On paper, Fabiano has everything you want from a striker; he’s big, strong, fast and can finish with any appendix on his body (well maybe not that one.) With Sevilla going well in the Champions League this season, hopefully we will see if Fabiano can cut it at the very top level, and if his form this season has been anything to go by, a move to one of Europe’s footballing elite may not be too far off.
See some of his 118 goals for
