Givanildo Vieira de Sousa (born 25 July 1986), known as Hulk (), is a Brazilian professional

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who plays as a forward for Atlético Mineiro. After starting out professionally with Vitória and then playing three years in Japan, he played several seasons in Portugal with

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, winning ten titles – including the

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and three national championships. He was crowned the league's top scorer once. In 2012, he joined

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side Zenit Saint Petersburg for €60 million, winning all three domestic honours and being named the competition's best player and being top scorer, once each. He was transferred to Shanghai SIPG for an Asian record €58.6 million in 2016. Hulk made his international debut in 2009, and played for

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at the

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as one of the three permitted over-age players. He went on to represent the Brazilian senior team in their victory at the

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and fourth-place finish at the

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. He is described by

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's official website as "a direct powerhouse of a centre- or wide-forward who knows his way around the box". He is strongly built for a footballer and acquired his nickname due to his likeness to actor Lou Ferrigno, who played the Incredible Hulk on the eponymous television show in the 1970s.

Club career

Brazil and Japan

Born in

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, Hulk started playing professionally with Esporte Clube Vitória in

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, then went on loan to Japan to play for

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. Despite having been purchased on 15 January 2006, he was loaned to second division Consadole Sapporo, effective on 1 February, where he played all the 2006 season and scored 25 goals, one less than the top scorer. In

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, he was loaned again to a second division team, Tokyo Verdy, where he was even more effective, scoring 37 goals in 42 matches and being the top goal scorer of the season. He briefly returned to Kawasaki in 2008 and rejoined Verdy after only 18 matches.

Porto

After Hulk's stay in Japan, he moved to Portugal to join defending champions

, who purchased 50% of his playing rights for €5.5 million from Uruguayan side Rentistas, with the transfer fee being received by an unnamed investor. When Moroccan teammate Tarik Sektioui suffered an injury, Hulk was given an opportunity to play forward and scored his first official domestic league goal for Porto in a 2–0 home win against C.F. Os Belenenses, later adding against F.C. Paços de Ferreira (same venue and result), both as a second-half substitute. As the season advanced, he became an undisputed starter, forming an attacking trio with Cristian Rodríguez and Lisandro López, with the trio often shifting positions. After some stellar performances in the season's

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, he was elected as one of the ''Top 10 Rising Stars'' by

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.com. In late August 2009, he extended his contract to June 2014, with a buy-out clause increased to €100 million. In the 2009–10 season, Hulk established as an automatic first-choice. However, following a tunnel brawl during the

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loss against S.L. Benfica (1–0) on 20 December 2009, he received a four-month ban (if the disciplinary hearing upheld the ban, he faced up to three years on the sidelines), only for the domestic competitions, as did his teammate Cristian Săpunaru. The ban was later reduced to four matches, and the player returned to league action on 28 March 2010 after missing 3 months and 18 matches, scoring in a 3–0 win at Belenenses. One week later, he also scored in a 4–1 home victory over

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. With six less matches played than the previous season, he ended with five league goals. Hulk started the 2010–11 season scoring 16 times in his first 16 official matches, including a

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against K.R.C. Genk in the

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play-off stage, on 26 August 2010 (4–2 home win, 7–2 on aggregate). From September to January, he won the Portuguese Championship Player of the Month, making him the only player to have won the award six times. On 7 November 2010, he scored the last two goals as Porto trounced Benfica 5–0 at home, creating a ten-point difference between the two teams, with the northerners leading the league, and eventually winning it, with the player leading the goalscoring charts. On 13 May 2011, Porto paid €13.5 million to Rentistas for another 40% of Hulk's playing rights, bringing their total stake to 85% (Porto sold back 5% after renewing his contract in 2009), with the player signing a new contract valid until 2016 and with a buy-out clause of €100 million. He finished the season with 36 goals in 53 official matches, with his team winning four major titles, including a league/

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. On 7 April 2012, Hulk scored the solitary goal as Porto defeated S.C. Braga away to go four points clear at the top of the Primeira Liga table. He scored six goals in the following three matches, including a brace in a 2–0 home defeat of

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, and finished the 2011–12 season with 16 league goals as his team won another national championship. In May 2012, he was voted the Player of the Month for April for a record sixth time, and he added 11 assists, a competition best. On 17 February 2014, Hulk was ordered to pay a €45,000 fine for assaulting two stewards at the Estádio da Luz.

Zenit

On 3 September 2012, Hulk completed a transfer of €60 million, with Porto receiving €40 million, to

club

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, reuniting with former Porto teammate

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; Porto's official website, 3 September 2012 (Portuguese) This transfer fee caused a lot of debate and a great stir since Mitrofanov, General director from Zenit denied publicly. Russian media R-Sport even claimed that Mitrofanov had shown the media the sales contract and the fee on the contract was €40 million and not €60 million. However, Porto also confirmed in its unaudited quarterly report in Q1 2012–13 that the club did not pay for third parties ownership (15%), agent fee nor solidarity contribution (5%), which all normally included in the transfer fee, as in the case of

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. Hulk scored his first goal for his new club in only his second league match, against

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, finding the net with a trademark shot from outside the box in a 2–2 away draw. In the second half of September, media speculation reported that teammates Igor Denisov and

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were unsatisfied with Hulk's wage, and that they demanded renegotiation of their contracts. As a result, they were sent to the youth squad. Denisov replied in an interview with ''Sport Express'' stating that his stand-off with club management was over "the proper organisation of the team. And respect for the Russian players which Zenit has always relied upon". A few days after the feud, he scored and assisted in a 2–1 win against

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for the fifth round of the Russian Cup. A few weeks later, he scored his first Champions League goal for Zenit and provided an assist in a 3–2 loss against A.C. Milan in the second matchday of group stage. Zenit-CSKA (2)

After falling out with head coach

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, Hulk declared he was seeking to leave the club in January. However,

regulations ban players from playing for more than two clubs in a season, forcing him to stay in Russia at least until June 2013. Eventually, he revealed he made amends with the club's management and that things have been resolved. In a 3–1 loss against the Ukrainian side of Shakhtar Donetsk, he suffered a head injury after falling under a challenge and connecting his head with a Shakhtar defender's studs in the second half. He was then taken to a local

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hospital. Following Zenit's third-place finish in the Champions League group stage, the club entered into the Europa League. He scored a goal in each leg of Zenit's knockout phase match to eliminate English side

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from the Europa League in the

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by away goals, despite losing 3–1 in the second leg. On 4 May 2013, he scored his first hat-trick of his Zenit career and assisted a goal, in a 4–0 win over league strugglers

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. On 16 February 2015, Hulk signed two-year contract extension with the club. On 17 May, his free kick in a 1–1 draw at

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gave Zenit the league title with two matches to spare. Hulk was due to be an assistant at the draw for

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, but withdrew due to commitments with Zenit, being replaced by

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. Hulk was named by UEFA as one of the top XI players of the 2015–16 UEFA Champions League group stage.

Shanghai SIPG

On 30 June 2016, Hulk joined Chinese club Shanghai SIPG from Zenit for a reported £45 million, an Asian football record. He would earn £320,000 per week, accumulating to £16.6 million per year. On 10 July, Hulk forced

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's own goal nine minutes into his debut in a 5–0 win over Henan Jianye. However, just 12 minutes later, he was stretchered off the pitch with a muscle injury. On 9 September, Hulk scored his first two goals for Shanghai SIPG against

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after a two-month injury lay-off. Hulk made a total of 145 appearances and scored a total of 77 goals across all competitions during his time in Shanghai.

Atlético Mineiro

On 29 January 2021, Hulk returned to Brazil and joined Atlético Mineiro on a two-year contract. He made his debut on 7 March, assisting the fourth goal for

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in a 4–0

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win over

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. On 19 March, he scored his first goal for the club, from a penalty kick, in a 3–0 win over

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. After a tough spell in April, with six games without scoring and being relegated to the bench, Hulk picked up his form in the

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against

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and

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, scoring a brace in each game. On 22 May, Atlético were crowned the Campeonato Mineiro champions, and Hulk was voted by journalists into the team of the tournament. On 17 July, Hulk scored both goals in a 2–1 turnaround win over

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, in the Série A. In the next round, he again scored twice in a 3–0 win over

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. On 21 November, he became top scorer of the league after yet another brace in a 2–0 win over Juventude. On 2 December, when Atlético played for the league title and was 2–0 down against Bahia at the Fonte Nova arena, Hulk kick-started a comeback by scoring from a penalty; five minutes later, a brace from Keno snatched the three points that secured the 2021 Série A trophy to ''Galo''. In the following match, a 4–3 win over Red Bull Bragantino at the Mineirão, Hulk scored his 19th goal in 35 appearances, ending the league season as top scorer. Hulk appeared in all ten matches of Atlético's

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-winning campaign, scoring once in eight of them, including both legs of the

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against

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. He became only the second player to be top scorer in both the Série A and Copa do Brasil in a same season, repeating Gabriel Barbosa's feat in 2018. Hulk was the country's top scorer in 2021, with a total of 36 goals in 68 appearances, while also providing 13 assists. His central role in Atlético's treble-winning season earned him the Bola de Ouro, Craque do Brasileirão and Copa do Brasil Golden Ball awards. He was also included in

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's Libertadores Team of the Tournament and

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' South American Team of the Year.

International career

Hulk made his debut for

on 14 November 2009 in a

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against

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, as the ''Seleção'' managed a 1–0 victory. On 26 May 2012, he scored his first three international goals in a 3–1 win against

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at the Imtech Arena,

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. On 9 June 2012, in a friendly with

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, Hulk scored in a 3–4 loss. In July, he was named as one of three overaged players for Mano Menezes' Brazilian squad for the

in London, and he appeared in all but one of the matches during the tournament, netting in the 1–2 final loss against

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. In June 2013, Hulk represented Brazil at the

. He played in every match as the team's starting right-winger, including

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, where Brazil defeated world champions

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to win its fourth

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title. At the 2014 World Cup, in the round of 16 match against

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, Hulk had a goal disallowed for a handball. In the shootout, he had his penalty saved by

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, although Brazil nonetheless advanced. In August 2021, after 5 years of exclusion, Hulk was recalled to the Brazil national team for the

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qualifiers.

Personal life

Hulk was previously married to Iran Angelo de Souza, who he met in Japan. The pair married in 2007 before separating in July 2019. They have two sons, Ian and Tiago, and a daughter, Alice. After splitting from Iran, Hulk began dating her niece, Camila Angelo in October 2019. It was reported in March 2020 that Hulk had married Camila, in part due to her needing a visa to stay in China with Hulk. They have since revealed they are expecting their first baby together. The baby will be Hulk's fourth child.

Career statistics

Club

International

:''Scores and results list Brazil's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Hulk goal.'' Goals in the Summer Olympics

Honours

Porto *

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: 2008–09, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13 *

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: 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11 * Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira:

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: 2010–11 Zenit Saint Petersburg *

: 2014–15 * Russian Cup: 2015–16 * Russian Super Cup:

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Shanghai SIPG *

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Atlético Mineiro *

Campeonato Brasileiro Série A The Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (; English: "Brazilian Championship A Series"), commonly referred to as the Brasileirão (; English: "Big Brazilian"), and also known as Brasileirão Assaí due to sponsorship with Assaí Atacadista, is a Br ...

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, 2022 * Supercopa do Brasil: 2022 Brazil Olympic *

Summer Olympic Games The Summer Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'été), also known as the Games of the Olympiad, and often referred to as the Summer Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The ina ...

Silver Medal:

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Brazil *

FIFA Confederations Cup The FIFA Confederations Cup was an international association football tournament for men's national teams, held every four years by FIFA. It was contested by the holders of each of the six continental championships (AFC, CAF, CONCACAF, CONMEBOL, ...

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Individual * J2 League Top scorer:

(37 goals) * Primeira Liga Breakthrough Player of the Year: 2008–09 * Primeira Liga Player of the Year: 2010–11, 2011–12 * Primeira Liga Top goalscorer: 2010–11 * SJPF Player of the Month: February 2009, September 2010, October 2010, December 2010, January 2011, April 2012 * Russian Premier League Top goalscorer: 2014–15 *

Best Right Winger: 2012–13, 2013–14 *

Player of the Month: September 2013 *

Footballer of the Year in Russia (Sport-Express) Footballer of the Year in Russia is an annual award given by ''Sport-Express'' daily to the Russian Premier League The Russian Premier League (RPL; russian: Российская премьер-лига; РПЛ), also written as Russian Premie ...

: 2014–15 * Footballer of the Year in Russia (Futbol): 2015 * UEFA Champions League Team of the Group Stage: 2015 *

Team of the Year:

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Team of the Tournament:

, 2022 * South American Team of the Year: 2021 * Campeonato Brasileiro Série A Player of the Year: 2021 * Campeonato Brasileiro Série A Team of the Year: 2021 * Campeonato Brasileiro Série A Top goalscorer:

* Bola de Ouro: 2021 * Bola de Prata: 2021 *

Best Player:

Top goalscorer:

Top goalscorer: 2022

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