Léo Kanu
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Leonardo Medeiros da Silva | ||
Date of birth | 14 January 1988 | ||
Place of birth | Porto Alegre, Brazil | ||
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Position(s) | Centre back | ||
Team information | |||
Current team
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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.
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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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External links
- Léo Kanu at footballzz.co.uk
- Léo Kanu profile at ForaDeJogo
- Léo Kanu at Soccerway
- Pages using infobox football biography with height issues
- No local image but image on Wikidata
- 1988 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Porto Alegre
- Brazilian footballers
- Association football defenders
- Esporte Clube Cruzeiro players
- Associação Atlética Ponte Preta players
- Clube Náutico Capibaribe players
- C.F. Os Belenenses players
- S.L. Benfica footballers
- Esporte Clube São José players
- Brazilian expatriate footballers
- Expatriate footballers in Portugal
- Brazilian expatriates in Portugal