Grafite
Grafite training with VfL Wolfsburg in 2009
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Edinaldo Batista Libânio | ||
| Date of birth | 2 April 1979 | ||
| Place of birth | Jundiaí, São Paulo, Brazil | ||
| Height | 1.89 m (6 ft 2 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Atlético Paranaense | ||
| Number | 23 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1999–2000 | Matonense | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2001 | Ferroviária | 0 | (0) |
| 2001–2002 | Santa Cruz | 22 | (5) |
| 2002–2003 | Grêmio | 6 | (0) |
| 2003 | Anyang LG Cheetahs | 9 | (0) |
| 2003–2004 | Goiás | 20 | (12) |
| 2004–2006 | São Paulo | 44 | (17) |
| 2006–2007 | Le Mans | 51 | (17) |
| 2007–2011 | VfL Wolfsburg | 107 | (59) |
| 2011–2015 | Al-Ahli | 79 | (63) |
| 2015 | Al Sadd | 9 | (4) |
| 2015–2016 | Santa Cruz | 26 | (15) |
| 2017– | Atlético Paranaense | 0 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2005–2010 | Brazil | 4 | (1) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 16:33, 3 July 2016 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 25 June 2010 |
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Edinaldo Batista Libânio (born 2 April 1979 in Campo Limpo Paulista, São Paulo), commonly known as Grafite (pronounced [ɡɾaˈfit͡ɕ]) is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Brazilian club Atlético Paranaense.
In 2005 he won the Copa Libertadores and the Club World Championship with São Paulo FC. With Wolfsburg he won the 2008–09 Bundesliga, and was the league's top scorer and German Player of the Year.
Edinaldo Libânio grew up in modest circumstances in the hinterland of the State of São Paulo. He made his first money with the door to door sales of rubbish bags. His talent as football player however earned him his first professional contract in 1999 with the Matão based club SE Matonense with which he played in the first division of the State Championship. In the beginning of 2000 he moved from there for a brief period to the fourth division club Ferroviária in the neighboring town of Araraquara – a club that actually had seen some quite gifted players in its teams in better seasons.
In the middle of the year he signed on with the first division club Santa Cruz FC of the north-eastern Brazilian city Recife. There he scored 5 goals in 22 league matches, which did not aid in preventing relegation to Série B.
However, he attracted the attention of Grêmio Porto Alegre, another first division club, which hired him for a transfer fee of one million Real – of this sum Santa Cruz had to forward about 700,000 real to Matonense.
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