Léo de Deus

In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is de Deus and the second or paternal family name is Santos.

Léo de Deus

Personal information
Full name	Leandro de Deus Santos
Date of birth	(1977-04-26) 26 April 1977 (age 47)
Place of birth	Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
	Atlético Mineiro
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1999–2005	Atlético Mineiro	4	(0)
1999	→ Uberlândia (loan)
2000	→ Villa Nova (loan)
2001	→ Guarani-MG (loan)	37	(8)
2002–2004	→ Borussia Dortmund II (loan)	12	(2)
2002–2004	→ Borussia Dortmund (loan)	4	(1)
2005	→ SønderjyskE (loan)
2006–2007	SønderjyskE
2008	Toledo Work
2010	Brasília
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Leandro de Deus Santos (born 26 April 1977), known as Leandro or Léo de Deus, is a Brazilian former footballer who played as a midfielder.

Football career

Léo de Deus was born in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais.

In 2002, he moved to Borussia Dortmund in Germany, on loan from Clube Atlético Mineiro. He spent the vast majority of his two-season spell with the B-team, scoring the first of his two Bundesliga goals on 15 March 2003 against Hannover 96 after only three minutes on the pitch (2–0 home win);^[1] ten of his 12 league appearances were made as a substitute – in a rare start, on 12 November 2002, he played 80 minutes in a 0–1 away loss against AJ Auxerre for the campaign's UEFA Champions League, his first and only game in the competition.^[2]

Léo de Deus then spent two seasons in Denmark with SønderjyskE Fodbold, the first still owned by Atlético. He eventually retired from football in 2010 at the age of 33, after spells with Brazilian amateur clubs.

Personal life

Léo de Deus's younger brothers, Dedê and Cacá, were also footballers. They too had spells in German football, and he coincided with the former at Borussia during his stint.^[3]

Honours

Borussia Dortmund

• DFB-Ligapokal: Runner-up 2003

References

1. "Dortmund 2:0, weil Hannover und der Schiri mithalfen…" [Dortmund 2:0, because Hannover and the ref helped…]. B.Z. (in German). 16 March 2003. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
2. "Change pays off for Auxerre". UEFA.com. 12 November 2002. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
3. "Ich hätte gerne für Deutschland gespielt" [I would have liked to play for Germany]. Der Spiegel (in German). 13 February 2004. Retrieved 15 April 2012.

External links

• Léo de Deus at fussballdaten.de (in German)