Lorik Cana
Lorik Agim Cana (Albanian pronunciation: [ˈlɔɾik ˈtsana]) (born 27 July 1983) is an Albanian professional footballer who plays as a defender for French club Nantes and captains the Albania national football team. He used to primarily play as a defensive midfielder.
Club career
Early life
Cana was born in Kosovo to Agim Cana, a former football player of KF Prishtina. Cana watched every game of KF Prishtina since he was five years old and describes himself as an avid Prishtina fan. Cana's father's experience in football inspired him to take up the sport.
Early career
In 1997, he joined the local team Dardania Lausanne, an amateur football club founded by the Albanian community in Lausanne, coached by his father. He played at Dardania until 2000, when he was spotted and signed by Paris Saint-Germain.
Paris Saint-Germain
Cana was invited to Arsenal at the age of 16 for trial, but failed to attend because he was denied a British visa. At PSG, he spent three years working through the ranks of the French club. Cana finally made the first team in 2003 and quickly became a main player. During the 2003–04 season, he played in 32 games and scored one goal as the team won the Coupe de France and finished second in the Ligue 1, proving to be one of the most successful seasons of his career so far. This was repeated the next season, when he also played 32 games for the Paris team and scored one goal. In his senior debut for PSG, he was awarded man of the match.
Cana
The Gospel of John refers a number of times to a town called Cana of Galilee (Greek: κανα της γαλιλαιας).
Written references to Cana
Biblical references
Among Christians and other students of the New Testament, Cana is best known as the place where, according to the Fourth Gospel, Jesus performed "the first of his signs", his first public miracle, the turning of a large quantity of water into wine at a wedding feast (John 2:1–11) when the wine provided by the bridegroom had run out. Although none of the synoptic gospels record the event, mainstream Christian tradition holds that this is the first public miracle of Jesus.
The other biblical references to Cana are also in John: John 4:46, which mentions that Jesus is visiting Cana when he is asked to heal the son of a royal official at Capernaum; and John 21:2, where it is mentioned that Nathanael (sometimes identified with the Bartholomew included in the synoptic gospels' lists of apostles) comes from Cana. The Book of Joshua mentions one city (19:28) and one brook (16:8; 17:9) named Cana – neither is likely to be the Cana of Galilee.
Canaã
Canaã (Portuguese for "Canaan") is a municipality (município) in the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. The population is 4,713 (2015 est.) in an area of 175 km².
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