Airton Ribeiro Santos

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This name uses Portuguese naming customs. The first or maternal family name is Ribeiro and the second or paternal family name is Santos.

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Airton
Personal information
Full name Airton Ribeiro Santos
Date of birth (1990-02-21) 21 February 1990 (age 34)
Place of birth Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Position(s) Defensive midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Botafogo
Youth career
2003–2008 Nova Iguaçu
2007 → Mesquita (loan)
2008 → Flamengo (loan)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2007–2008 Nova Iguaçu 0 (0)
2007 → Mesquita (loan) 0 (0)
2008 → Flamengo (loan) 16 (0)
2009 Flamengo 30 (0)
2010–2015 Benfica 19 (0)
2011–2012 → Flamengo (loan) 31 (1)
2013 → Internacional (loan) 13 (0)
2014–2015 → Botafogo (loan) 25 (0)
2015– Botafogo 0 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23 May 2015

Airton Ribeiro Santos (born 21 February 1990), known simply as Airton, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Botafogo.

Club career

Early career

Airton started his career at Nova Iguaçu at the age of 13. At the end of 2007, Flamengo's youth coach Adílio asked for his loan. Airton also spent four months on loan at Mesquita in 2007, playing on the youth team.

Flamengo

Airton arrived at Flamengo, on loan, on 7 January 2008 to play for the club's youth team. His rights belonged to, at the time, Nova Iguaçu, which had him under contract until 2010. He would play for Flamengo until the end of 2008, but in 2008, Flamengo officially signed him, acquiring part of his rights — Nova Iguaçu and Traffic, an investors group, shared the other parts of his rights.[1][2]

His first match in the first-team was in a 1–1 draw against Vasco da Gama on 6 April 2008, and his debut in the Brazilian Série A was at Mineirão Stadium, coming off the bench in a 1–1 draw against Atlético Mineiro on 9 July.[3]

Benfica

In December 2009, after much speculation, Benfica signed Airton to a five-year contract.[4][5] Flamengo received a sum around €1.1 million for 15% of his rights. In Portugal, he acted mainly as a back-up for starter Javi García for the second part of the 2009-10 season. After struggling to perform on the same level in the following season, Airton was loaned to Flamengo.[6]

Return to Brazil

Airton returned to Flamengo from Benfica almost a year and a half after his original loan deal to Flamengo ended, penning a season-long loan deal on 10 June 2011.[7] On May 2012, it was extended until June 2013,[8] but was eventually cut short as he moved teams. On February 2013, Internacional, signed Airton on loan until December 2013, for a reported €300,000 fee.[9][10]

In January 2014, Airton moved to Botafogo until June 2014,[11] with the loan deal being later extented until 30 June 2015, effectively meaning Airton will not return to Benfica.[12][13] On 10 September 2014, Airton was sentoff in a match against São Paulo after deliberately stepping on Alexandre Pato head, being suspended for two matches.[14] He also faced a two year suspension for refusing to take a anti-doping test, which he was later acquitted off.[15]

On 10 September 2015, after his contract with Benfica ended, Airton signed a one-season deal with Botafogo.[16]

Club statistics

As of 24 December 2014[17][18]
Club Season League Cup Regional League Continental Other[nb 1] Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Flamengo 2008 16 0 — 1 0 0 0 — 17 0
2009 30 0 6 0 14 0 2 0 — 52 0
Total 46 0 6 0 15 0 2 0 — 69 0
Benfica 2009–10 4 0 — — 1 0 1 0 6 0
2010–11 15 0 4 0 — 4 0 4 0 27 0
Total 19 0 4 0 — 5 0 5 0 33 0
Flamengo 2011 18 0 — — 2 0 — 20 0
2012 13 1 — 3 0 2 0 — 18 1
Total 31 1 — 3 0 4 0 — 38 1
Internacional 2013 13 0 5 0 9 1 — — 27 1
Total 13 0 5 0 9 1 — — 27 1
Botafogo 2014 24 0 — 8 0 1 0 — 33 0
Total 24 0 0 0 8 0 1 0 — 33 0
Career total 133 1 15 0 35 1 12 0 5 0 200 2

Honours

Flamengo
Benfica
Internacional

Notes

  1. ↑ Includes other competitive competitions, including the Supertaça and Taça da Liga

References

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  4. ↑ Volante Airton fecha com o Benfica, afirma jornal português (Portuguese)
  5. ↑ Águia assegura negócio de Airton (Portuguese)
  6. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  7. ↑ Mais experiente, Airton quer conquistar novamente o Brasileirão (Portuguese)
  8. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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  15. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  16. ↑ http://www.ojogo.pt/Futebol/1a_liga/Benfica/interior.aspx?content_id=4772335
  17. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  18. ↑ Airton Ribeiro Santos at Soccerway. Retrieved 16 June 2015.

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