Ady (footballer)

In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Pereira and the second or paternal family name is dos Santos.

Ady

Personal information
Full name	Adailton Pereira dos Santos
Date of birth	(1973-04-18) 18 April 1973
Place of birth	Caatiba, Brazil
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1993–1994	Poções
1994–1996	Bahia
1996–1997	Santa Cruz
1997–1998	Madureira
1998	Goiás
1998	Santos FC
1999–2000	Portuguesa
2000–2003	Espérance de Tunis
2003	Al-Qadsiah
2003–2005	Alahly Tripoli
2005–2007	TPS Turku	57	(18)
2008	JJK	25	(3)
2009–2010	MyPa	23	(2)
International career
2002	Tunisia	3	(0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Adailton Pereira dos Santos (born 18 April 1973), better known as Ady or Messias, is a former professional footballer who last played for MyPa in the Finnish Veikkausliiga. Born in Brazil, he represented the Tunisia national team.

Career

Ady started his career as a child, in the Arthur Leite stadium in his hometown. As a teenager, he started to be noted as a good soccer player in a local championship called Liga Desportiva Caatibense, and later, he moved with his agent's help to Itambé, when he played for Itambé's soccer team. Later, he was hired by Poções soccer team to dispute Bahia's state soccer championship. After a good performance in this championship, he signed a contract with Esporte Clube Bahia and then his career reached the national scope.

He also played for the Santa Cruz, Madureira and Goiás Football Club. And then became part of Santos FC, in which he played 15 matches in the Brazilian Championship of 1998. In 1999, he transferred to the Portuguesa team, but it did not last long.

Little used in "Lusa do Canindé", he received a proposal from Tunisian football. He accepted, traveled and began his international career. With a solid career and notoriety at Espérance de Tunis, he became naturalized and played for the national team of that country, playing in the World Cup qualifiers and with the intention of playing in the 2002 FIFA World Cup, but ended up not being called up for the World Cup.

After leaving Espérance, Ady played, from 2003 to 2005, for Al Ahly Tripoli in Libya. In 2005, he started his career in Finland, playing for TPS until 2007; then at JJK Jyväskylä in 2008 and from 2009 to 2010 at MyPa, where he would end his career at the age of 37.

Personal ife

Ady's son Alisson Santos is also a professional footballer.

External links

• Ady at WorldFootball.net