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Cláudio Maradona
Personal information
Full name	Cláudio Oliveira de Souza
Date of birth	July 15, 1994 (age 30)
Place of birth	Duque de Caxias-RJ, Brazil
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Winger
Youth career
2013–2014	Ferroviário
Senior career*
Years	Team
2014	Itabaiana
2014–2016	Alcanenense
2016–2023	São José
2017	→ Macaé (loan)
2017–2018	→ Sampaio Corrêa (loan)
2018	→ Boavista (loan)
2018	→ Americano (loan)
2019	→ Madureira (loan)
2020	→ Americano (loan)
2022	→ Al-Dahab (loan)
2022–	→ Newroz (loan)
2023–2024	Dibba Al-Hisn
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 9 April 2023

Cláudio Oliveira de Souza or simply Cláudio Maradona (born July 25, 1994), is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder.^[1]

Club career

Maradona started playing football in Ferroviário and Itabaiana, and also played for the Portuguese club Alcanenense, and in July 2016 he moved to São José, and he was with the Copa Metropolitana winning team in 2016, and part of the team when it won the 2018 Copa do Nordeste and was the third scorer. After that, he played on loan to several Brazilian clubs: Macaé,^[2]^[3] Sampaio Corrêa, Boavista, Americano,^[4]^[5] and Madureira. He then returned to play for his club in Série C.^[6]

In August 2022, Maradona moved to play in the Iraqi Premier League, where he signed a one-year contract with Newroz.^[7]^[8]^[9] After only fourteen league matches, Maradona scored eight goals and became the interim top scorer of the league.^[10]