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| Full name | Francileudo Silva dos Santos Lima[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1979-03-20)20 March 1979 (age 46) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Zé Doca,Maranhão, Brazil | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Forward | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| Sampaio Corrêa | |||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1996–1998 | Standard Liège | 10 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1998–2000 | Étoile du Sahel | 60 | (41) | ||||||||||||||
| 2000–2005 | Sochaux | 144 | (53) | ||||||||||||||
| 2005–2008 | Toulouse | 34 | (7) | ||||||||||||||
| 2007 | →Zürich (loan) | 12 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
| 2008–2009 | Sochaux | 16 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2009–2010 | Istres | 16 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| 2010–2013 | Étoile du Sahel | 31 | (9) | ||||||||||||||
| 2013–2015 | ASM Belfort | 48 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| 2015–2016 | FC Porrentruy | 6 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 377 | (124) | |||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2004–2008 | Tunisia | 41 | (22) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Francileudo Silva dos Santos Lima (Arabic:فرانسيلودو سيلفا دوس سانتوس ليما; better known asFrancileudo Santos orSantos; born 20 March 1979), is a Tunisian retired professional footballer who played as aforward.
Born in Brazil, he became a naturalised Tunisian citizen before their hosting of the2004 Africa Cup of Nations, and was joint top scorer as they won it. He also played at two more such tournaments, and the2006 FIFA World Cup.
Born inZé Doca,Maranhão, Brazil, Santos began his professional career withStandard Liège in Belgium, before spending two years withÉtoile Sportive du Sahel in Tunisia.[2] He then moved toFC Sochaux-Montbéliard in France in 2000, and was top scorer with 21 goals and player of the season as they wonLigue 2 in his first season.[3] He played as they won the2004 Coupe de la Ligue Final; in the last 32 he scored in a 3–2 extra-time home win overASOA Valence.[4] In February 2004, he was removed from the squad to avoid a doping ban due to hiscorticoid use, as the club awaited a facsimile of his prescription from Tunisia.[5]
After nine goals in his finalLigue 1 season, Santos turned down a new two-year contract to sign for fellow league teamToulouse FC on a three-year deal in May 2005.[6] Having played only four times under managerÉlie Baup in his second season, he was loaned toFC Zürich of theSwiss Super League in February 2007 for the rest of the season.[7] In May, he opened a 2–0 win against city rivalsGrasshopper Club Zürich to take the title.[8]
On 1 July 2008, Santos returned to Sochaux on a one-year deal.[9] He then had a season atFC Istres before going back to Étoile Sportive.[10]
Santos returned toFranche-Comté in September 2013, to sign forASM Belfort of the fourth-tierCFA.[11] In June 2015, he signed for a year at Swiss amateursFC Porrentruy.[12]
Santos was naturalised as a Tunisian citizen in 2003, before the country was due to host the2004 Africa Cup of Nations.[2] He debuted for theCarthage Eagles on 17 January in a 2–1 friendly win overBenin inSfax, in which he scored after eight minutes.[13] In the first two group games, he scored a goal in a 2–1 win againstRwanda and two in a 3–0 victory againstDR Congo.[14][15] He opened the scoring after five minutes inthe final, a 2–1 win over rivalsMorocco at theStade Olympique Hammadi Agrebi.[16] With four goals, he was one of five joint top scorers.[17]
In June 2004, Santos apologised for having draped himself in theBrazilian flag when celebrating Sochaux's Coupe de la Ligue win.[18] He was Tunisia's top scorer with five goals in qualification for the2006 FIFA World Cup; this included four on 26 March 2005 as they beat Malawi 7–0 at home.[19] He was also part of the squad that were eliminated from the group stage at the2005 FIFA Confederations Cup in Germany, where he scored both goals of a win overAustralia in their last game.[20]
At the2006 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt, Tunisia reached the quarter-finals. Santos scored a hat-trick in a 4–1 win overZambia in the first game and another in a 2–0 victory againstSouth Africa in the next.[21][22] ManagerRoger Lemerre called him up for the2006 FIFA World Cup, where he only played the last ten minutes of a group stage elimination by Ukraine at theBerlin Olympiastadion, as a substitute forAdel Chedli.[23]
Santos also went to the2008 Africa Cup of Nations in Ghana, another quarter-final finish. He scored twice in a 3–1 win over South Africa in the second group game.[24]
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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| 1 | 17 January 2004 |  Benin | 1–0 | 2–1 | Friendly | |
| 2 | 24 January 2004 | Stade 7 Novembre,Radès, Tunisia |  Rwanda | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2004 Africa Cup of Nations |
| 3 | 28 January 2004 | Stade 7 Novembre, Radès, Tunisia |  DR Congo | 1–0 | 3–0 | |
| 4 | 3–0 | 3–0 | ||||
| 5 | 14 February 2004 | Stade 7 Novembre, Radès, Tunisia |  Morocco | 1–0 | 2–1 | |
| 6 | 4 September 2004 | Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium,Rabat, Morocco | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification | |
| 7 | 26 March 2005 | Stade 7 Novembre, Radès, Tunisia |  Malawi | 2–0 | 7–0 | |
| 8 | 3–0 | |||||
| 9 | 5–0 | |||||
| 10 | 6–0 | |||||
| 11 | 4 June 2005 | Botswana National Stadium,Gaborone, Botswana |  Botswana | 2–1 | 3–1 | |
| 12 | 21 June 2005 | Red Bull Arena,Leipzig, Allemagne |  Australia | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup |
| 13 | 2–0 | |||||
| 14 | 11 November 2005 | Stade Sébastien Charléty,Paris,France | DR Congo | 2–1 | 2–2 | Friendly |
| 15 | 22 January 2006 | Haras El Hodoud Stadium,Alexandria, Egypt |  Zambia | 1–1 | 4–1 | 2006 Africa Cup of Nations |
| 16 | 3–1 | |||||
| 17 | 4–1 | |||||
| 18 | 26 January 2006 | Haras El Hodoud Stadium, Alexandria, Egypt |  South Africa | 1–0 | 2–0 | |
| 19 | 30 January 2006 | Stade 7 Novembre, Radès, Tunisia |  Belarus | 2–0 | 3–0 | Friendly |
| 20 | 9 September 2007 | Khartoum Stadium,Khartoum, Sudan |  Sudan | 2–3 | 2–3 | 2008 Africa Cup of Nations qualification |
| 21 | 27 January 2008 | Tamale Stadium,Tamale, Ghana | South Africa | 1–0 | 3–1 | 2008 Africa Cup of Nations |
| 22 | 2–0 |
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