Léo Itaperuna
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Leonardo de Oliveira Clemente | ||
Date of birth | April 12, 1989 | ||
Place of birth | Itaperuna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | ||
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||
Position(s) | Striker | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Vila Nova Futebol Clube | ||
Youth career | |||
2006 | Fluminense | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2007–2011 | Fluminense | 10 | (1) |
2008 | → Paulista (loan) | 0 | (0) |
2009 | → America-RJ (loan) | 0 | (0) |
2010 | → CRAC (loan) | 0 | (0) |
2010 | → Duque de Caxias (loan) | 4 | (0) |
2011 | → Cabofriense (loan) | 10 | (2) |
2011 | Anápolis | 0 | (0) |
2011–2012 | Arapongas | 24 | (10) |
2012–2017 | Sion | 108 | (19) |
2015 | → Suwon Samsung Bluewings (loan) | 11 | (1) |
2015 | → Jiangxi Liansheng (loan) | 13 | (2) |
2017 | Aarau | 10 | (1) |
2018– | São Bento | 0 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 29 October 2017 |
Leonardo de Oliveira Clemente (born April 12, 1989 in Itaperuna, state of Rio de Janeiro), or simply Léo Itaperuna, is a Brazilian striker who currently plays for Vila Nova futebol Clube.
Historic and Actuality
Formed in Fluminense Leo made an immediate impact in Swiss Football after his arrival at Sion, scoring in every friendly game played by his team during the summer preparation. He is currently the top scorer of Swiss Super League with 5 goals in 7 games.
He was discovered in a small club in the interior of Brazil (Arapongas), seen by media and professionals in Swiss football as: "A strong talented striker, natural finisher."[citation needed] His speed and technique have surprised the football world along with his very strong physical abilities despite his relative small size and undeniable goal scoring skills.
Said about him
Laurent Fournier, his coach at Sion said of him in an interview: "He's really a refreshing and good surprise for us. Leo have all the kit of the modern perfect striker, he's never short on efforts for the team, fights on every ball, is Lethal on 1 v 1 and despite his short size for a No. 9 (1.73m), he jumps 70cm off the ground. For me, even more important than that in the modern game, he's humble and always starving for work, the key for any talented player to reach success. If he continues this way he will go very far."[citation needed]
His Representative, Rui Alves was quoted lately in an interview saying about: "Leo progressed in a exponential way in the past year. I've have been bluffed by the way he's adapting to Europe and with his progression all this pasts months. I truly believe that the kid will break through really fast in European football if he continues to be focus and committed like this. Switzerland is being the perfect adaptation championship for Leo. You will heard very highly about him very soon without a doubt, if he keeps with this kind of exigences and standards in his game, he's a very very good young man in and out the pitch what makes everything much more easy for him in all senses".[citation needed]
Leo is married to Paola with whom he moved from Rio de Janeiro to Sion.
Contract
He's tied to FC Sion until 2016 on an undisclosed deal. Atualmente joga no Paraná Clube
External links
- Léo Itaperuna – K League stats at kleague.com (in Korean)
- Léo Itaperuna at Soccerway
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- Guardian Stats Centre at the Wayback Machine (archived 2012-08-23)
- Léo Itaperuna at BDFA.com.ar Template:Es icon
- Mais um título para a base Template:Pt icon at the Wayback Machine (archived 2007-10-08)
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- tnonline.com.br Template:Pt icon
- romandie.com Template:Fr icon
- espoirsdufootball.com Template:Fr icon
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- 1989 births
- Living people
- Brazilian footballers
- Brazilian expatriate footballers
- Fluminense Football Club players
- Duque de Caxias Futebol Clube players
- Associação Desportiva Cabofriense players
- FC Sion players
- Suwon Samsung Bluewings players
- Jiangxi Liansheng players
- FC Aarau players
- Swiss Super League players
- China League One players
- K League 1 players
- Expatriate footballers in Switzerland
- Expatriate footballers in South Korea
- Brazilian expatriates in South Korea
- Brazilian expatriates in China
- Expatriate footballers in China
- Itaperuna
- Association footballers not categorized by position