Adriano de Lima

Adriano de Lima, (born 30 July 1981 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian retired footballer who last played for Los Angeles Blues in the USL Professional Division.

Adriano de Lima
Personal information
Full name Adriano Vieira de Lima
Date of birth (1981-07-30) July 30, 1981
Place of birth São Paulo, Brazil
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Playing position(s) Midfielder/Forward
Youth career
1988–1990 Pequeninos do Jóquei
1990–1997 Itaguá
1999–2000 Cypress College
2001–2003 Cal State Fullerton Titans
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1997–1998 Itaguá
2003 San Diego Sockers (indoor)
2003 Flamengo
2003–2010 SoCal Beach
2011 Los Angeles Blues 35 (26)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Career

Youth and amateur

Adriano played in many youth clubs in Brazil, including Itaguá and Pequeninos do Jóquei, and briefly played professionally in Brazil for Itaguá, before moving to the United States in 1999 to play college soccer at Cypress College in Cypress, California. He transferred to California State University, Fullerton in 2001, and played three more seasons there.

Professional

After playing professional indoor soccer for the San Diego Sockers in the MISL in 2003, De Lima returned to Brazil to join Flamengo. After returning to the United States, Adriano played professional beach soccer for SoCal Beach in Oceanside, California, and in 2007 participated in the Futsal World Club Championship in the Algarve in Portugal for World United.

Adriano signed with the Los Angeles Blues in the USL Professional Division in 2011; he made his debut for the Blues on May 1, 2011 in a 1-0 defeat to Antigua Barracuda[1]

Personal

Adriano coaches soccer and owns Culture FC Sports, a sports travel company that provides soccer players and teams with opportunities in Brazil and U.S.

Adriano has also been part of the Nike skills team as a sponsored athlete, promoting and helping develop the game in the United States. He traveled all over the country and the world as an ambassador of the sport, entertaining and influencing soccer players of all ages and levels. He also participated in many soccer ads and campaigns, and in the video game FIFA Street 2.

gollark: Yes; it's *very hard* to go around editing the FS API such that other stuff isn't affected.
gollark: ```pythonfrom requests_futures.sessions import FuturesSessionimport concurrent.futures as futuresimport randomtry: import cPickle as pickleexcept ImportError: import pickletry: words_to_synonyms = pickle.load(open(".wtscache")) synonyms_to_words = pickle.load(open(".stwcache"))except: words_to_synonyms = {} synonyms_to_words = {}def add_to_key(d, k, v): d[k] = d.get(k, set()).union(set(v))def add_synonyms(syns, word): for syn in syns: add_to_key(synonyms_to_words, syn, [word]) add_to_key(words_to_synonyms, word, syns)def concat(list_of_lists): return sum(list_of_lists, [])def add_words(words): s = FuturesSession(max_workers=100) future_to_word = {s.get("https://api.datamuse.com/words", params={"ml": word}): word for word in words} future_to_word.update({s.get("https://api.datamuse.com/words", params={"ml": word, "v": "enwiki"}): word for word in words}) for future in futures.as_completed(future_to_word): word = future_to_word[future] try: data = future.result().json() except Exception as exc: print(f"{exc} fetching {word}") else: add_synonyms([w["word"] for w in data], word)def getattr_hook(obj, key): results = list(synonyms_to_words.get(key, set()).union(words_to_synonyms.get(key, set()))) if len(results) > 0: return obj.__getattribute__(random.choice(results)) else: raise AttributeError(f"Attribute {key} not found.")def wrap(obj): add_words(dir(obj)) obj.__getattr__ = lambda key: getattr_hook(obj, key)wrap(__builtins__)raise __builtins__.quibble()```
gollark: table.deepcopy, table.shallowcopy, table.slice, table.filter, table.map
gollark: Same with many other utility thingies.
gollark: Not really. They could have table.copy but they don't.

References

  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-05-05. Retrieved 2011-05-06.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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