Leonardo dos Santos Silva

This article deals with the soccer player Leonardo dos Santos Silva (* 1976). For the football player * 1980 see Leonardo Bruno dos Santos Silva .

Leonardo
Personnel
Surname	Leonardo dos Santos Silva
birthday	August 21, 1976
place of birth	Rio de Janeiro ,  Brazil
size	176 cm
position	External defense (right)
Juniors
Years	station
0000-1997	Flamengo Rio de Janeiro
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1997-2001	FC Groningen	118 (7)
2001-2004	Feyenoord Rotterdam	10 (0)
2003	→  BV De Graafschap  (loan)	14 (0)
2003-2004	→  ADO Den Haag  (loan)	23 (0)
2004-2005	MVV Maastricht	14 (2)
2006-2007	FC Dordrecht
2007	Lorca Deportiva
2008	Deportes Quindío
2009	Veranópolis ECREC	1 (0)
2009-2011	FC Emmen	19 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2015–	BVCB (D youth)
1 Only league games are given.

Leonardo dos Santos Silva (born August 21, 1976 in Rio de Janeiro ), or Leonardo for short , is a former Brazilian soccer player and today's coach .

Career

At the beginning of August 1997, the Dutch Eredivisie club FC Groningen signed the then 20-year-old right-back Leonardo together with Hugo Alves Velame from Flamengo Rio de Janeiro . The Brazilian made his debut on August 20, 1997 in a 3-0 victory over FC Volendam ; he came in the following four years on seven hits in 118 league games for the Groninger in the Eredivisie and the Eerste Divisie .

For the 2001/02 season he moved to Feyenoord Rotterdam , where he also played in the Champions League . With Feyenoord, Leonardo celebrated the greatest success of his career in his first year by winning the UEFA Cup . In the final, he came on for Robin van Persie in the 63rd minute , in the competition he had already made four more appearances as a substitute and scored a goal in the third round in a 2-2 draw against SC Freiburg . During his time at Feyenoord he was called Leonardo II because at that time Leonardo Santiago was also playing for Feyenoord. In order to collect match practice, dos Santos Silva moved in the winter break of the 2002/03 season until the end of the season to BV De Graafschap based in Doetinchem . Feyenoord loaned Leonardo to ADO Den Haag until his contract ended in summer 2004 .

One season later, Leonardo moved to MVV Maastricht . The 2006/07 season he played at FC Dordrecht in the Eersten Divisie . After the end of the season he moved to the Spanish third division club Lorca Deportiva , which he left at the end of the year in the direction of Colombia to Deportes Quindío . In February 2009 he completed a league game for the Brazilian club Veranópolis ECREC . He then ended his career at FC Emmen , back in the Netherlands, for which he made 19 appearances in the Eersten Divisie between 2009 and 2011.

Leonardo has been training the BVCB D youth team since the end of 2015 .

Web links

• Leonardo in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Leonardo in the soccerway.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Leonardo dos Santos Silva ( Memento from July 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), in: ronaldzwiers.0catch.com .
2. ↑ Nog twee Brazilians at FC Groningen! ( Memento of the original from January 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: fcgroningen.nl (accessed January 26, 2016). 
3. ↑ UEFA Europa League 2001/02 - History - Feyenoord ( Memento of the original from January 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: uefa.com (accessed January 26, 2016). 
4. ↑ Leonardo dos Santos secures De Graafschap loan , in: feyenoord.com (accessed January 26, 2016).
5. ↑ Leonardo dos Santos debuts with goal , in: feyenoord.com (accessed on January 26, 2016).
6. ↑ Erin geloven - BVCB D2 , in: bvcb.nl (accessed on January 26, 2016).