Léo Kanu

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Léo Kanu
Personal information
Full name Leonardo Medeiros da Silva
Date of birth (1988-01-14) 14 January 1988 (age 36)
Place of birth Porto Alegre, Brazil
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Position(s) Centre back
Team information
Current team
São José-PA
Youth career
2001 Vasco da Gama
2002–2004 Internacional
2005–2006 Pedrabranca
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2006 Ponte Preta
2007 São José
2008–2011 Cruzeiro-RS ? (?)
2009 Esporte Clube Taubaté(loan) ? (?)
2011–2013 Benfica 0 (0)
2011–2012 Belenenses (loan) 19 (3)
2012 Ponte Preta (loan) 0 (0)
2013 Grêmio Osasco (loan) 15 (1)
2014 Náutico 1 (0)
2015 São José-PA 11 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23 March 2015

Leonardo Medeiros da Silva (born 14 January 1988), known as Léo Kanu, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for São José-PA, as a central defender.

Career

After a series of good performances at the Campeonato Gaúcho, he was bought by Benfica for 996 thousand euros.[1]

He was immediately loaned to Belenenses for one season.[2] He managed to gain his space at the starting eleven, played the fifth round of the Taça de Portugal against Sporting CP, but by January got benched till the end of the season.

On 24 July 2012, he returned to Brazil, to play at Ponte Preta on loan from Benfica,[3] but couldn't break into the first team so on 17 December 2012, he moved to Grêmio Esportivo Osasco in Campeonato Paulista Série A3.[4] In 2014 he signed with Náutico in permanent basis, but only managed one appearance before being released.[5] In 2015, he signed with São José-PA in the Campeonato Gaúcho.[6]

Honours

Best central defender from the 2011 Campeonato Gaúcho by Federação Gaúcha de Futebol

References

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