Cassio's 150 reasons to celebrate

Defender ... Cassio celebrates a special milestone against Wellington. Source: Liam Driver / News Limited

Adelaide United's most loved player Cassio will celebrate his 150th Reds match on Sunday.

The Brazilian is Adelaide's current longest-serving player after joining the Reds in 2007.

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His milestone will be played out in New Zealand, which was the scene of the worst moment in his Reds career.

Although Adelaide faces Wellington Phoenix in Wellington for the first time since Cassio was forced out of the game with a foot injury in 2011, the Brazilian-born new Australian remembers the Auckland incident well.

That injury forced Cassio to seek medical help in Brazil where he made a return to Adelaide after just 40 days, without surgery.

The original prognosis in Adelaide was surgery and possibly a year out of the game.

But he said Adelaide had given him some of the most unbelievable experiences in his career.

"The best moment as a player with the club is the (AFC) Champions League campaign in 2008," he said.

"We went through the whole system and we got to the grand final. We did very good and we should be proud of that."

Cassio, skipper Eugene Galekovic, Fabian Barbiero, Osama Malik and former skipper and current coach Mike Valkanis are the only survivors from 2008.

Bruce Djite played in the group stages before heading to Turkey and returning to the Reds in 2011.

Djite had another setback this week when he rolled his ankle at training.

Djite was coming back from a groin injury and missed this morning's session at Santos Stadium.

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