Fernandão (footballer, born 1978)

Fernando Lúcio da Costa, better known as Fernandão (18 March 1978 – 7 June 2014), was a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a forward.

Having started his career at Goiás of Goiânia,[2] Fernandão had a four-year spell in France, initially moving to Marseille for R$1.4 million, before returning to Brazil to play for Internacional.

In the same year, he made his international debut against Guatemala, assisting Grafite to score Brazil's third goal.

In May 2010, São Paulo FC signed Fernandão from Goiás for an undisclosed fee.

[9] In Porto Alegre, the city where he had the most success as part of Internacional, the club proceeded to homage Fernandão by unveiling a statue of his outside Beira-Rio later that year,[10] while in 2015 one of the streets outside the stadium received his name.