Flávio da Silva Amado (born 30 December 1979), better known as Flávio, is an Angolan former professional footballer who played as striker. He is the coach of Angola national under-20 football team.

Club career Flávio helped his team Al Ahly to participate in the FIFA Club World Championship two successive times in 2005 and 2006.

In the FIFA Club World Championship 2006 opening match against Auckland City FC of New Zealand on 10 December 2006, he scored the first goal, helping Al Ahly to a 2–0 win. In the semi-final on 13 December 2006, Al Ahly faced South American champions Internacional, and Flávio played and scored an equaliser with a header in the second half, but Al Ahly eventually lost the match 1–2.

After having a very unsuccessful first season with the team during which he scored only one goal in the league, and being jeered by fans at many times, most notably when he missed a penalty kick against rivals Zamalek in the African Champions League, Flávio had a very successful second season in 2006–2007, seeing him top the goalscorers chart of the Egyptian Premier League with 17 goals, a single goal ahead of international Egyptian teammate Emad Moteab. He proved to be instrumental in Al Ahly's formation in the next years, scoring many vital goals in critical moments. Generally, Flávio kept an extremely low profile and rarely appears in the media or give any press statements. Such attitude is highly appreciated by his club administration, since it agrees with the club's policies.

In his last season with Al Ahly (2008–2009), Flávio managed to score Al Ahly's only goal during the Egyptian Premier League play-off against Ismaily, handing the title to Al Ahly for the fifth time in row and rewarding himself with the second personal title of the Egyptian Premier League Top Goalscorer, for the third time as a foreign player in the Egyptian Premier League history after John Utaka with Ismaily during the 2000–2001 season, then Flávio himself formerly during the 2006–2007 season.

At his time with Al Ahly he was very well known in Egypt for his heading accuracy, and it was known that Al Ahly played a tactic that Flávio's fellow Angola national football team and Al Ahly teammate Gilberto would play a long ball to him from the sides, and Flávio would score with his head. He did this on multiple occasions, earning Al Ahly multiple titles domestically and continentally.

International career Flávio was a member of the Angola national team, and was called up to the 2006 FIFA World Cup, in which he scored Angola's only goal of the tournament, with a header against Iran to earn a 1–1 draw. This was Angola's only appearance at a World Cup so far, so Flávio is the only Angolan player to score at a World Cup to date.

He scored three goals for Angola in 2006 African Cup of Nations in Egypt, although they went out in the second round. His goals were against Cameroon and Togo.

Career statistics

Club

+ Appearances and goals by club, season and competitionClubSeasonLeagueLeague Cup CupContinentalOtherTotalDivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsPetro de Luanda1999Girabola125––00171020002214––00282020012523–700302120022411–31004120200320101–0042192004241043433220052113––002013157–––167201413312––166Total1769671100Al Ahly2005–06EPL201—1093003312006–072417—421464246272007–08235—0093103382008–0929122020137435022Total9635207245199515961Al Shabab2009–10SPL168—3275—2615Lierse2011–12BPL51—20——71 Notes

International + Appearances and goals by national team and yearNational teamYearAppsGoalsAngola200010200110220025020037220047320058320069620078520081362009132201043201121201241Total9134

Scores and results list Angola's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Flávio goal.

+ List of international goals scored by FlávioNo.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition1 17 June 2001 Estádio Municipal do Tafe, Cabinda, Angola 2–1 2–1 2002 Africa Cup of Nations qualification2 30 September 2001 National Sports Stadium, Harare, Zimbabwe 1–0 1–0 2001 COSAFA Cup3 6 July 2003 Estádio da Cidadela, Luanda, Angola 3–0 5–1 2004 Africa Cup of Nations qualification4 7 September 2003 Estádio da Cidadela, Luanda, Angola 2–0 2–0 Friendly5 18 July 2004 Estádio da Cidadela, Luanda, Angola 1–1 1–1 (5–3 pen.) 2004 COSAFA Cup6 19 September 2004 Estádio da Machava, Maputo, Mozambique 1–0 1–0 2004 COSAFA Cup7 10 October 2004 Estádio da Cidadela, Luanda, Angola 1–0 1–0 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification8 23 February 2005 Stade Alphonse Massemba-Débat, Brazzaville, Congo 1–0 2–0 Friendly9 27 May 2005 Stade Olympique de Radès, Radès, Tunisia 1–3 1–4 Friendly10 5 June 2005 Estádio da Cidadela, Luanda, Angola 1–0 2–1 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification11 21 January 2006 Cairo Military Academy Stadium, Cairo, Egypt 1–1 1–3 2006 Africa Cup of Nations12 29 January 2006 Cairo International Stadium, Cairo, Egypt 1–0 3–2 2006 Africa Cup of Nations13 2–114 21 June 2006 Zentralstadion, Leipzig, Germany 1–0 1–1 2006 FIFA World Cup15 8 October 2006 Estádio da Cidadela, Luanda, Angola 1–0 3–1 2008 Africa Cup of Nations qualification16 2–017 25 March 2007 Estádio da Cidadela, Luanda, Angola 1–0 6–1 2008 Africa Cup of Nations qualification18 5–119 17 June 2007 Estádio da Cidadela, Luanda, Angola 3–0 3–0 2008 Africa Cup of Nations qualification20 22 August 2007 Stade des Martyrs, Kinshasa, DR Congo 1–1 1–3 Friendly21 17 November 2007 Stade de Melun, Melun, France 2–0 2–1 Friendly22 13 January 2008 Complexo Desportivo FC Alverca, Alverca do Ribatejo, Portugal 2–2 3–3 Friendly23 16 January 2008 Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium, Rabat, Morocco 1–0 1–2 Friendly24 27 January 2008 Tamale Stadium, Tamale, Ghana 3–1 3–1 2008 Africa Cup of Nations25 1 June 2008 Estádio dos Coqueiros, Luanda, Angola 1–0 3–0 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification26 8 June 2008 Stade Général-Seyni-Kountché, Niamey, Niger 1–1 2–1 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification27 7 September 2008 Stade de l'Amitié, Cotonou, Benin 1–1 2–3 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification28 12 August 2009 Estádio do Restelo, Lisbon, Portugal 1–0 2–0 Friendly29 14 November 2009 Estádio da Cidadela, Luanda, Angola 1–0 1–1 Friendly30 10 January 2010 Estádio 11 de Novembro, Luanda, Angola 1–0 4–4 2010 Africa Cup of Nations31 2–032 14 January 2010 Estádio 11 de Novembro, Luanda, Angola 1–0 2–0 2010 Africa Cup of Nations33 4 September 2011 Estádio Nacional do Chiazi, Cabinda, Angola 2–0 2–0 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualification34 14 January 2012 Estádio Nacional do Chiazi, Cabinda, Angola 3–1 3–1 Friendly

Honours Al Ahly Egyptian Premier League: 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09 Egypt Cup: 2006, 2007 Egyptian Super Cup 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 CAF Champions League: 2005, 2006, 2008 CAF Super Cup: 2006, 2007, 2009 FIFA Club World Cup third place: 2006

Petro Atletico Girabola: 2000, 2001 Taça de Angola: 2000, 2002, 2013 Angolan SuperCup: 2002

Angola Qualified for the 2006 World Cup with Angola for the first time ever, and scored Angola's only World Cup goal in their history so far (despite playing for only thirty-nine minutes during the whole tournament). He scored 7 goals so far for Angola in African Cup of Nations so far, in Egypt 2006, Ghana 2008, Angola 2010.

Individual CAF Champions League best player: 2001 Egyptian Premier League top goalscorer: 2006–07, 2008–09 Girabola top goalscorer: 2001, 2002 CAF Champions League top goalscorer: 2001

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