Leandro de Deus Santos

Leandro

Personal information
Full name	Leandro de Deus Santos
Date of birth	26 April 1977
Place of birth	Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Playing position	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1999–2006	Atlético Mineiro
2001	→ Guarani-MG (loan)
2002–2004	→ Borussia Dortmund II (loan)	35	(8)
2002–2004	→ Borussia Dortmund (loan)	12	(2)
2005	→ SønderjyskE (loan)	4	(1)
2006–2007	SønderjyskE
2008	Toledo Work
2010	Brasília
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (goals)

Leandro de Deus Santos (born 26 April 1977 in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais), known as Leandro or Léo de Deus, is a Brazilian retired footballer who played as a midfielder.

Football career

In 2002, Leandro 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); 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.

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

Honours

• DFB-Ligapokal: Runner-up 2003

Personal life

Leandro's younger brothers, Dedé and Cacá, are also footballers. Both also had spells in German football, and he coincided with the former at Borussia during his stint.^[1]

References

1. "Ich hätte gerne für Deutschland gespielt" [I would have liked to play for Germany] (in German). Der Spiegel. 13 February 2004. Retrieved 15 April 2012.

External links

• Léo de Deus profile at Fussballdaten