Leandro Damião
Awards & Honours
3
Awards Won
3
Honours
1
Records
Damião's honours list is short but it has real weight at both ends of his career. At 22 he outscored every striker at the London Olympics, six goals across the tournament, and came home with a silver medal after Brazil lost the final to Mexico. Nearly a decade later, at 32 and written off by plenty of people in Brazil, he was voted into the J.League Best XI for 2021 with Kawasaki Frontale. That second honour is the one that says the most about him. Very few Brazilian strikers who leave Europe without making it go on to earn a team-of-the-season spot in a completely different league eight years later.
Awards
Honours & Distinctions
10th-highest all-time scorer for Internacional
Recognised by the club at the time of his retirement, with 108 goals to his name.
J.League Best XI
Selected among the league's best eleven players during his Kawasaki Frontale spell.
Olympic silver medal
Part of Brazil's squad that finished second at the London Games.
Records & Feats
Top scorer at the London 2012 Olympic football tournament
Finished the men's competition with six goals, the highest total of any player at the tournament.