Diego de Souza Andrade

Diego Souza

Personal information
Full name	Diego de Souza Andrade
Date of birth	17 June 1985 (1985-06-17)
Place of birth	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position	Attacking Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Vasco da Gama
Number	10
Youth career
2002	Fluminense
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2003–2005	Fluminense	40	(3)
2005–2007	Benfica	0	(0)
2005–2006	→ Flamengo (loan)	22	(5)
2007	→ Grêmio (loan)	33	(8)
2008–2010	Palmeiras	67	(14)
2010–2011	Atlético Mineiro	28	(5)
2011–	Vasco da Gama	32	(11)
National team
	Brazil U-17	?	(?)
2005	Brazil U-20	2	(0)
2008	Brazil U-23	?	(?)
2009–	Brazil	2	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 5 December 2011. † Appearances (Goals).

Diego de Souza Andrade or simply Diego Souza (born 17 June 1985) is a Brazilian midfielder. He currently plays for Vasco da Gama.

Career

Fluminense

Diego Souza began playing club football for Fluminense in the Brazilian League where he quickly impressed and earned a move to Europe.

Benfica and loans

Benfica signed him from Fluminense and loaned to Flamengo. He returned to Benfica in 2006–07 Primeira Liga but only appeared on 19 September 2006 as unused bench. In 2007, he went on loan to Grêmio. He was influential at Grêmio scoring a handful of goals most notably a set-piece against Santos FC as they made the Copa Libertadores final losing out to Boca Juniors.

Palmeiras

In 2008, he moved to Palmeiras (and partner) for €3.75M total fee. He signed a contract until December 2011. Co-currently, along with Lenny, Fluminense transferred its shares on both players' economic rights to Desportivo Brasil (owned by Traffic Group) as part of the deal, made Fluminense gained a profit of R$ 1,320 thousand and R$ 1,500 thousand respectively. Both players were signed by Palmeiras as part of R$ 40 million partnership with Traffic, which Palmeiras only owned 10~20% of the rights of Diego.

On 18 April 2009, he received a red card after an argument with Domingos during the state semi finals match against Santos. He later took Domingos down after coming back to the field.

On 29 November 2009, he scored a magnificent goal against Atlético Mineiro from the mid-field area. At the same year in the Série A, Diego Souza helped Palmeiras lead until the end, but lost the title in the last rounds of the tournament.

Atlético Mineiro

On June 30, 2010, Clube Atlético Mineiro's president Alexandre Kalil announced that Diego Souza had signed a contract. After the transaction, Mineiro owned 70% and 30% owned by Traffic, and costed Atlético Mineiro a reported R$ 6.6 million.

Vasco

On 2 March 2011, he was signed by Vasco da Gama in 4-year contract.

The number 10 was sold to Vasco for about $ 1.2 million. On March 20, Diego Souza made his debut for the team in the Hill Classic against Botafogo, scoring the 1st goal of the team victory by cruzmaltino 2-0. On June 8, 2011 Diego Souza became champion of Brazil Cup by Vasco da Gama, having his best performance in the Brazil Cup in the game Avai Vasco 0 x 2 in Semi-Final where he made one goal and two hats in applied Marcinho Guerreiro. Soon after the Brazil Cup, Diego Souza fell from income and, consequently, was placed on the bench. According to Ricardo Gomes, the goal was that the player readquirisse physical form and perfect motivação.Deu right. In the game against his former club Atletico Mineiro, he returned to the starting lineup and did a great performance, scoring two goals in the 2-1 victory cruzmaltina in Minas Gerais. From that game again showed some good football. In the 24th round of the Brasileirão 2011 Vasco led the rout of Gremio 4-0 with a goal and a beautiful performance, putting the team in the championship. This coach Mano Menezes has promoted his return to Brazil squad (its second convocation) to play the game against Argentina, in September 2011 in the city of Belém do Pará Even more motivated after the convocation, Diego Souza scored four goals in two games: one against Atletico Goianiense and three against Cruzeiro, the latter applying a hat over Cruzeiro goalkeeper Fabio in what may have been one of the most beautiful goals of his career , three days before the game for the national team. Shortly after being summoned, fell a little production, having been cleared through broken off after a meeting with Vasco coach, Ricardo Gomes, Diego returned will decide important games, addition of a goal it was poorly set aside for the launch striker cross-maltino Alecsandro give assistance to Bernard who kept the Vasco da Gama in the race of the Brazilian Championship, 2011, in the next round against arch-rivals Flamengo, Diego suffered a maximum penalty unmarked after a beautiful cross-cutting and Nilton Diego opened the Score for the team cross-maltino, would soon tie with Flamengo's Renato Abreu, After Draw a 1x1 became Vice-Champion for Brazilian Team Cross-Maltina - The tie with the Arch-Rival red black not determined winning the vice championship since Vasco depended on a victory in the classic regional Palmeiras against Corinthians, held at the same time; In a win against Flamengo. Both events have not occurred, which resulted in the Brazilian champion Corinthians as the Serie A championship year. -.

After the first match in 2012 in the state championship, Diego Souza marks his first goal of the Duque de Caxias. Rio club Vitoria 3-1. In the fourth round, opening the third uniform Vasco da Gama unprecedented Blue, Diego Souza scored the only two goals in the match, Vasco 2 x 0 Friburguense thus maintaining the Vasco da Gama the only 100% Club and leader in the Guanabara Cup hitherto isolated . Since the Copa Libertadores in 2012, Vasco da Gama had a debut deleted, lost 2-1 to the National URU, starting when Diego Souza was one of the few in the regular game.

National team

Diego was part of the Brazil U-23 side.^{[citation needed]} Diego was in the winning sqaud of Brazil U-17 at the 2001 South American Under 17 Football Championship in Peru. He played twice in 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship.

Diego Souza was called to play for Brazil national football team, in a game aganist Chile. He made his debut against the Bolivia national football team on 11 October 2009.

Career statistics

As of April 3, 2011.

Club	Season	League		Cup		Continental		Total
		Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Fluminense	2003	7	0	1	0	0	0	8	0
	2004	29	3	3	1	0	0	32	4
	2005	4	0	1	0	0	0	5	0
	Total	40	3	4	1	0	0	45	4
Flamengo	2005	22	5	3	1	0	0	25	6
	2006	1	0	7	0	0	0	8	0
	Total	23	5	10	1	0	0	33	6
Benfica	2006–07	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Grêmio	2007	33	8	-	-	11	2	44	10
	Total	33	8	-	-	11	2	44	10
Palmeiras	2008	33	6	4	1	3	1	40	8
	2009	34	8	-	-	9	4	43	12
	2010	0	0	7	1	0	0	7	1
	Total	67	14	11	2	12	5	90	21
Atlético Mineiro	2010	28	5	0	0	4	0	32	5
	Total	28	5	0	0	0	0	32	5
Vasco da Gama	2011	22	9	9	3	1	1	32	13
	Total	22	9	9	3	1	1	32	13
Career total		215	44	34	7	24	8	268	54

• Tournaments such as: Campeonato Paulista, Gaúcho, Carioca, Campeonato Mineiro and Recopa Sudamericana are not included.

Honours

Clubs

• Fluminense
  • Rio de Janeiro State League: 2005

• Flamengo
  • Copa do Brasil: 2006

• Grêmio
  • Rio Grande do Sul State League: 2007

• Palmeiras
  • São Paulo State League: 2008

• Vasco da Gama
  • Copa do Brasil: 2011

National team

• Superclásico de las Américas: 2011

External links

• (English) UEFA Profile
• (English) sambafoot
• (Portuguese) zerozero.pt
• (Portuguese)Futpédia
• (English) transfermarkt
• Diego de Souza Andrade – FIFA competition record