Léo Moura

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Léo Moura
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Léo Moura (2010)
Personnel
Surname Leonardo da Silva Moura
birthday October 23, 1978
place of birth Niterói ,  Brazil
size 176 cm
position Defender
Juniors
Years station
Botafogo FR
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1997-1999 Botafogo FR
1999 Linhares EC
1999-2000 Germinal beerschot 24 0(0)
2000-2001 ADO The Hague 29 (12)
2001 Botafogo FR 24 0(1)
2002 CR Vasco da Gama 0 0(0)
2002 Palmeiras São Paulo 9 0(0)
2003 Sao Paulo FC 24 0(1)
2004 Fluminense Rio de Janeiro 44 0(0)
2005 Sporting Braga 8 0(0)
2005-2015 Flamengo Rio de Janeiro 432 (31)
2015 Fort Lauderdale Strikers 9 0(2)
2015 FC Goa 16 0(2)
2016 CA Metropolitano 6 0(0)
2016 Santa Cruz FC 34 0(3)
2017– Gremio Porto Alegre 75 0(3)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2008 Brazil 1 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of season 2019

Léo Moura , full name Leonardo da Silva Moura , (born October 23, 1978 in Niterói ) is a Brazilian football player . He is used in the position of right- back . Alternatively, he is also used in the right midfield. His strong foot is the right one.

Career

Beginnings and Europe

Léo Moura started his career in the junior division of the Botafogo FR in Rio de Janeiro . At the club he made the leap into the professional squad in 1997. Léo Moura changed clubs for the first time in 1999. He came to the Linhares EC , in the same year he went to Europe for the first time. He signed a contract with Germinal Beerschot from Antwerp . After the end of the 1999/00 season , Léo Moura went to the Netherlands for ADO Den Haag . With the club he appeared in the 2000/01 season in the second division of the Netherlands. After the end of the season, Léo Moura returned to Brazil. for the remainder of the 2001 championship he went back to Botafogo .

At the start of the season, Léo Moura began with Botafogo's local rival , the CR Vasco da Gama , to compete with this in the state championship in Rio de Janeiro . For the championship in 2002 went to Palmeiras São Paulo . In the next few years he also changed clubs every season. During the European winter break in 2004/05, he went to Europe a second time. He signed a contract with Sporting Braga from Portugal . After the end of the season, Léo Moura returned to Brazil.

CR Flamengo

He signed a contract with Flamengo Rio de Janeiro . Having been at the Big Three rivals before Botafogo , Vasco and Fluminense of FLA had signed it, the fans of the club first against Léo Moura. At the club he quickly developed into a regular player. In his second year at the club, he won his first big title with FLA with the Copa do Brasil . In 2007 Léo Moudra was awarded the Bola de Prata and the Prêmio Craque do Brasileirão . He was also awarded the Prêmio for the national team in 2008. After several victories in the national championship, the second national title came in 2009 with the national championship . The second success in the cup followed in 2013 . On February 22, 2014, Léo Moura played his 468 competitive game for the club, becoming the player with the tenth most appearances. In the same year he reached the mark of 500th games. The championship game against FC Santos on October 4, 2014 was rated here. When he left, he was honored by Zico , for whom Léo Moura himself played as a young player in his FLA farewell game .

USA and India

After the games for the 2015 national championship, Léo left Moura. He went to the United States in April to join the Fort Lauderdale Strikers . After just two months, he left the club again in June. He played his first game in NASL on April 4, 2015 against New York Cosmos . In the game against Jacksonville Armada a week later, he scored his first league goal for the club. After three months without a contract, he moved to India in September , where he worked with FC Goa with coach Zico . With this he played the rest of the season in the Indian Super League . With the club he made it to the final, where they lost 3-2 to Chennaiyin FC . Then he went back to Brazil.

Return and Gremio

To host the national championships, Léo Moura joined the CA Metropolitano for games in Santa Catarina . In the course of the ongoing competition, he moved on to Santa Cruz FC . With the club he was able to win the state championship of Pernambuco and the Copa do Nordeste and again compete in the top division of the championship in 2016 .

After the end of the season, it became known that Léo Moura had again received a contract with one of the big clubs in Brazil. He signed with Gremio Porto Alegre . With the club he was able to win the biggest title of his career in the same year in 2017 . At the beginning of 2018, the success in the Recopa Sudamericana 2018 followed .

National team

Léo Moura during his international match

In 2008 Léo Moura made his first and only international appearance under assistant coach Jorginho (national coach Dunga was suspended). In the friendly against the Irish national football team in Dublin on February 6, 2008, he was in the starting line-up.

successes

Botafogo

  • Torneio Octávio Pinto Guimarães: 1997
  • Campeonato Carioca de Juniores: 1998

Flamengo

Santa Cruz

Gremio

Awards

Web links

Commons : Leonardo da Silva Moura  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 468 games for FLA , report on globo.com from February 22, 2014, page in portug., Accessed on August 5, 2019
  2. ↑ 500 games for FLA , report on globo.com from October 4, 2014, page in portug., Accessed on August 5, 2019
  3. ↑ Farewell to FLA , report on globo.com from March 4, 2015, page in portugal, accessed on August 5, 2019
  4. ↑ Change to Lauderdale , report on sportingnews.com from February 19, 2015, page in English, accessed on August 5, 2019
  5. ↑ First NASL game , game report on fussballzz.de, accessed on August 5, 2019
  6. ↑ First NASL goal , match report on fussballzz.de, accessed on August 5, 2019
  7. ↑ Change to Goa , report on globo.com from September 3, 2019, page in portugal, accessed on August 5, 2019
  8. ↑ FC Goa match statistics , on indiansuperleague.com, accessed on August 5, 2019
  9. ↑ Change to Grêmio , report on clicrbs.com.br from March 28, 2017
  10. ↑ International match , report on rsssfbrasil.com, accessed on August 5, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Moura, Léo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Silva Moura, Leonardo da (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Niterói , Brazil