Pablo Campos
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Pablo Campos | ||
| Date of birth | January 29, 1983 | ||
| Place of birth | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | ||
| Height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Carolina RailHawks | ||
| Number | 9 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1997–2000 | Guarani | ||
| 2000–2002 | Botafogo | ||
| 2005–2006 | Oklahoma Baptist Bison | ||
| 2007–2008 | Fresno Pacific Sunbirds | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 2007–2008 | Fresno Fuego | 25 | (32) |
| 2008–2009 | GAIS | 8 | (0) |
| 2009 | San Jose Earthquakes | 14 | (2) |
| 2009–2010 | Real Salt Lake | 27 | (2) |
| 2011– | Carolina RailHawks | 26 | (12) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of September 27, 2011. † Appearances (Goals). |
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Pablo Campos (born October 13, 1983 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian footballer who currently plays for Carolina RailHawks in the North American Soccer League.
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[edit] Career
[edit] College and Amateur
Campos began his amateur career at Fresno Pacific University, and was named to the 2007 NSCAA/adidas NAIA Men's All-America Team, but it was with Fresno Fuego in the USL Premier Development League where Campos truly excelled.
In his first year with Fresno in 2007, he scored 18 goals in 15 appearances, ending the year as the top scorer in the entire PDL,[1] and PDL MVP. After being courted by several Major League Soccer teams in the 2007-08 offseason, notably Real Salt Lake, Campos decided to forego a professional career in the USA, where his salary as a developmental player would have been small, and instead chose to continue his college studies and play for Fresno Fuego for one more season; he subsequently scored 14 goals in 10 games for the Fresno Fuego in the PDL in 2008.
[edit] Professional
Campos was signed by GAIS on July 9, 2008.[2] He made his debut for GAIS on September 24, 2008, coming on as a substitute for Björn Andersson in an Allsvenskan game against Gefle,[3] and made his first professional start two weeks later, against Norrköping.[4]
On February 9, 2009, Campos joined the San Jose Earthquakes after the team won a weighted Major League Soccer lottery for his services.[5] He scored his first professional goal on April 18, 2009, in a 1-1 tie with Los Angeles Galaxy.[6]
Campos was later traded to Real Salt Lake on July 15, 2009. Campos scored his first goal for Salt Lake on August 26, 2009 in a home match against Chivas USA at Rio Tinto Stadium. The strike turned out to be the winning goal in a 4-0 RSL triumph. A few days later, he scored the lone goal in Real Salt Lake's 1-0 victory against the Kansas City Wizards - the club's first-ever win in Kansas City. Campos and Real Salt Lake won the MLS Cup in 2009 after a great season.
Campos played sparingly for RSL in 2010 and was released by the club on February 28, 2011.[7]
He signed with Carolina RailHawks FC of the North American Soccer League in April 2011.[8]
[edit] Honors
[edit] Real Salt Lake
- Major League Soccer MLS Cup (1): 2009
- Major League Soccer Eastern Conference Championship (1): 2009
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.uslsoccer.com/stats/2007/Top10.6187507.html
- ^ http://www.socceramerica.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=27217
- ^ http://www.gais.se/Fotboll/gais.nsf/0/389DF8455461FF17C12574470029E095
- ^ http://www.gais.se/Fotboll/gais.nsf/0/270F9262504BE0DBC1257447002A23C7
- ^ San Jose Earthquakes Media Relations, Quakes acquire Brazilian Pablo Campos, http://sjearthquakes.mlsnet.com/news/team_news.jsp?ymd=20090209&content_id=216821&vkey=pr_sje&fext=.jsp&team=t110, retrieved 2009-02-09
- ^ Quakes suffer another late breakdown
- ^ http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/blogsrsl/51331282-49/campos-rsl-deadline-released.html.csp
- ^ http://www.nasl.com/index.php?id=3&newsid=263
[edit] External links
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- 1983 births
- Living people
- Brazilian footballers
- Brazilian expatriate footballers
- Fresno Fuego players
- GAIS Göteborg players
- San Jose Earthquakes players
- Real Salt Lake players
- Carolina RailHawks players
- Oklahoma Baptist University alumni
- Fresno Pacific University alumni
- USL Premier Development League players
- Allsvenskan players
- North American Soccer League players
- Expatriate soccer players in the United States
- Expatriate footballers in Sweden
