Fred

Fred is one of the greatest strikers in the history of modern Brazilian football. A native of Teófilo Otoni, in Minas Gerais, he built a career marked by important goals and a special connection with Fluminense Football Club, where he became the club's all-time leading goalscorer and absolute idol of an entire generation of tricolor supporters. He started his career at Cruzeiro, where he showed his striking potential with impressive numbers before venturing into Europe. At Olympique Lyonnais in France, he won the Ligue 1 title and expanded his game vision, returning to Brazil to live his most glorious phase at Fluminense, for which he scored more than two hundred goals. His imposing physique, dominance in aerial play and clinical finishing made him one of the most feared strikers in South American football for over a decade. At Fluminense, he was a key piece in the conquests of the Brazilian Championship, especially in the 2012 title, when he lived the best football of his career. For the Brazilian national team, he was the main goalscorer in the qualifiers for the 2014 World Cup and competed in the tournament held at home carrying the weight of expectations of an entire country, becoming a symbol of a generation that dreamed of a sixth World Cup on its own soil.