Leslie George Santos (Chinese: 山度士), born 20 July 1967, was one of the best attacking midfielder players in Hong Kong football history. He is of Portuguese and British heritage.
[edit] Career
During his peak (1983–1997), Santos played for South China Athletic Association. In 1993-1994, during a league match against Sing Tao, he suffered a major injury by Ian Docker and took 3 years for rehabilitation. He was twice awarded Footballer of the year and he rounded off his career with Sun Hei.[1]
Santos took over as coach for Sun Hei in the 2008-09 Hong Kong League Cup and took them to a 2:2 (6:4) final victory over TSW Pegasus FC, thus ending his coaching career in glory.[2]Santos was award Best Coach of the Year for this victory. Santos was surprised by the award because he only coached for a short time.[3]
[edit] Retirement
He is now a columnist for the Oriental Daily newspaper and runs his own soccer academy named after himself, known as Santos Soccer Training Limited Hong Kong. In December 2009, the school reached a long term agreement with ChelseaFC in 2009 to develop its first ever Soccer School in Asia to provide football and charity opportunities to children. The school is now known as ChelseaFC Soccer School (HK).[4][5] It is based in Lok Fu, Kowloon with its own Blue Pitch training ground.
[edit] Personal life
Santos is married and on 29 August 2010, his wife gave birth to a daughter. This was his second daughter.[6]
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