Givanildo Vieira de Sousa (born twenty-five July 1986), known since Hulk (Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈhuwki]), can be a Brazilian professional footballer which plays for Shanghai SIPG as well as the Brazil national team, being a forward, though he also can operate as a winger.
After beginning professionally with Vitória and playing 36 months in Japan, he proceeded to play several periods in Portugal with Porto, winning ten major titles – like the 2010–11 UEFA Europa Little league and three national competition – and being crowned the particular league's top scorer when. In 2012, he joined up with Russian Premier League part
Zenit Saint Petersburg regarding €60 million, winning almost all three domestic honours and also being named the competition's finest player and top scorer when each. He transferred with an Asian record €55. 8 thousand to Shanghai SIPG inside 2016.
Hulk made his international debut in '09, and played for Brazil on the 2012 Summer Olympics as one of the three permitted overage participants. He went on to be able to represent the Brazilian senior team inside their victory at the 2013 FIFA Confederations Pot and fourth-place finish on the 2014 FIFA World Pot.
He is described simply by FIFA's official website since "a direct powerhouse of your centre- or wide-forward which knows his way across the box". [3] He is strongly built to get a footballer and acquired his nickname as a result of his likeness to the particular actor Lou Ferrigno which played the Incredible Hulk around the eponymous television show inside the 1970s.
