Cristiano

There's something quietly admirable about a player like Cristiano — a Brazilian footballer from the modest town of Campo Mourão in Paraná who's carved out a professional career in a country overflowing with talent. He's not the Cristiano you find on billboards, but that's almost the point: this is the version of the story where grit quietly outlasts the spotlight. Playing as an attacking midfielder or forward, he wore the number 10 for Red Bull Salzburg and helped them to an Austrian league-and-cup double in his first season there, which is no small feat for a late bloomer from Paraná. Not every career is about trophies — some are just about showing up and doing the work in a league that chews people up.

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Name (English)

Cristiano

Name (Japanese)

クリスティアーノ・ダ・シウヴァ

Reading

くりすてぃあーの・だ・しうゔぁ

Born

January 12, 1987 (age 39)

Origin

Campo Mourão, Paraná, Brazil

Height

183 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Rabbit

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/cristiano9oficial/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristiano%20(footballer%2C%20born%20January%201987)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8E%E3%83%BB%E3%83%80%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A6%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q537739

Tags

• Paraná
• association football player

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.