Baiano: the numbers of a successful career
26 Feb 2023
Seventeen years after the beginning, the end point arrives. Baiano hung up his boots and announced, at the age of 36, the end of a long and successful career, which began in Brazil, his native country, but clearly had Portugal as its biggest backdrop.
Since his debut at Vila Nova, where he completed his youth career, in the already distant year of 2006, until the end of last season, playing for Nacional da Madeira, the last club he represented, there were many stories of a path that speaks for itself.
Baiano represented 10 clubs and played almost 400 games, 183 of them at the service of SC Braga, the club he represented the longest and which, therefore, marks his career.
However, it was not even the gateway to Portugal. After Vila Nova, CRAC and Anápolis, Baiano arrived in Portugal in 2008/09, to play for Belenenses. The season was not even the most productive, with only 11 games played, but it ended up serving as an adaptation to the country. Success would come to the north.
The following season he signed for Paços de Ferreira and that's when he started to emerge. In two seasons he became undisputed at Mata Real and in the second of them he even scored his first League goal. The quality became undisguised and SC Braga wasted no time. Baiano arrived in Braga in 2011 and stayed there until 2017, always as a key part of the team that helped win two titles: the 2013 League Cup and the 2016 Taça de Portugal.
In 2017/18 he went to Spain, to Rayo Vallecano, an historic Madrid club. The team competed in the II Division and was crowned champion, adding to Baiano's record, which contributed to 36 games in the campaign. The following year, he moved to Turkey, to Alanyaspor and, last season, after a brief return to Brazil at Grémio Anápolis, he helped Nacional on their way in the II Liga.
It was his last club. Wanderson de Souza Carneiro, born in Correntina, a city in the interior of Bahia, became known in football as Baiano and is now ending his career, aged 36, and certainly with a lot of good things to remember.
Since his debut at Vila Nova, where he completed his youth career, in the already distant year of 2006, until the end of last season, playing for Nacional da Madeira, the last club he represented, there were many stories of a path that speaks for itself.
Baiano represented 10 clubs and played almost 400 games, 183 of them at the service of SC Braga, the club he represented the longest and which, therefore, marks his career.
However, it was not even the gateway to Portugal. After Vila Nova, CRAC and Anápolis, Baiano arrived in Portugal in 2008/09, to play for Belenenses. The season was not even the most productive, with only 11 games played, but it ended up serving as an adaptation to the country. Success would come to the north.
The following season he signed for Paços de Ferreira and that's when he started to emerge. In two seasons he became undisputed at Mata Real and in the second of them he even scored his first League goal. The quality became undisguised and SC Braga wasted no time. Baiano arrived in Braga in 2011 and stayed there until 2017, always as a key part of the team that helped win two titles: the 2013 League Cup and the 2016 Taça de Portugal.
In 2017/18 he went to Spain, to Rayo Vallecano, an historic Madrid club. The team competed in the II Division and was crowned champion, adding to Baiano's record, which contributed to 36 games in the campaign. The following year, he moved to Turkey, to Alanyaspor and, last season, after a brief return to Brazil at Grémio Anápolis, he helped Nacional on their way in the II Liga.
It was his last club. Wanderson de Souza Carneiro, born in Correntina, a city in the interior of Bahia, became known in football as Baiano and is now ending his career, aged 36, and certainly with a lot of good things to remember.
