Edu

Edu is one of those names that means very different things depending on when you started following Arsenal. To me he's the calm Brazilian midfielder from the early 2000s, but his second act is arguably more interesting. Going from playing for Corinthians, Arsenal and Valencia to running football operations behind the scenes at Nottingham Forest is a rare arc. I find executives who actually played at the top level fascinating, because they read a squad differently than career administrators. Born in São Paulo in 1978, he's quietly become one of the more respected football minds working in the English game today.

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Name (English)

Edu

Name (Japanese)

エドゥアルド・セザール・ダウド・ガスパール

Reading

えどぅあるど・せざーる・だうど・がすぱーる

Born

May 15, 1978 (age 48)

Origin

São Paulo, Brazil

Height

185 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Horse

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edu%20(footballer%2C%20born%201978)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%89%E3%82%A5%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BB%E3%82%B6%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%80%E3%82%A6%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q314750

Tags

• São Paulo
• association football player

Last updated

November 2, 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.