| Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Leandro Ferreira Medeiros | |||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1981-05-14)May 14, 1981 (age 44) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Recreio, Brazil | |||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Defensive midfielder | |||||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2000–2001 | Cruzeiro | |||||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2001–2004 | Cruzeiro | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2001–2002 | →Ipatinga (loan) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2003 | →Ceará (loan) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2003 | →Gama (loan) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2004–2006 | Ipatinga | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2006–2010 | Flamengo | 60 | (6) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2008 | →Atlético Paranaense (loan) | 3 | (1) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2009 | →Bahia (loan) | 10 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2011 | Ipatinga | 3 | (1) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2011 | Brasil de Pelotas | 6 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2012 | Guarani-MG | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2012 | Remo | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2013 | Rio Verde | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2014 | Nacional de Muriaé | |||||||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015 | Valeriodoce (assistant) | |||||||||||||||||||
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||||||||
Leandro "Léo" Ferreira Medeiros (born May 14, 1981, in Recreio), is a Brazilian retired player, manager and politician.[1]
Léo Medeiros was adefensive midfielder who was successful inIpatinga ease of play as attacking midfielder, and without the ball as wheel being used well in the scheme of coachNey Franco, both in mining and in the clubFlamengo.
It has come to Fla in the middle of 2006, along withWalter Minhoca andDiego da Silva, also from Jaipur and was the only remaining trio for the year 2007. Working with the Holy Mantle, Medeiros pointed up some goals, but had a very irregular and she alternated changeover good performances in matches and not so inspired.
In 2008, considered disposable byJoel Santana, Leo was on loan atAtlético Paranaense prompted byNey Franco that this time the team trained Paraná. Failing to keep good performances, the player was still far from the starting lineup at midseason, however, remained on the coaching staff of Curitiba.
In 2009, again dismissed by the coaches, the player was loaned again, this time inBahia. Bahia arrived at the team carrying the status and salary of crack, about $50 000, resumed between Fla and Bahia. He played the best matches of the club fromSalvador in the first half, but still not pleased the coachGallo, still at the beginning of the Brazilian Championship, asked her head and put him to train separately.
By luck or chance, Medeiros saw soon after the coach and disaffection,Gallo, be dismissed. So it was then reinstated to the team by new coach Bahia,Paulo Comelli. Though reinstated, Léo Medeiros was no more consensus in Bahia and was eventually released as soon as that team finished the season.
In 2010, he presented himself again to Most Wanted from Brazil to perform the pre-season and was eventually reinstated to the first team squad gamesCariocão. But the player did not take the chance offered by then-coachAndrade, who used improvised on theleft back and ended up forgotten in the red-black cast.
In the year 2014, and hung up the boots, theNacional de Muriaé and in 2015, assumes another function, now out of the four lines being technical assistant ofValeriodoce.[2]
In the2024 Brazilian municipal elections, Medeiros ran for mayor on his hometown of Recreio, and won. He's expected to assume the office on January 1, 2025.[1]
| Club | Season | Carioca League | Brazilian Série A | Brazilian Cup | Copa Libertadores | Copa Sudamericana | Total | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Goals | Assists | Apps | Goals | Assists | Apps | Goals | Assists | Apps | Goals | Assists | Apps | Goals | Assists | Apps | Goals | Assists | ||
| Flamengo | 2006 | - | - | - | 27 | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 27 | 3 | 2 |
| 2007 | 7 | 2 | ? | 26 | 3 | ? | - | - | - | 3 | 0 | ? | - | - | - | 36 | 5 | 3 | |
| 2008 | 2 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 10 | 2 | ? | 53 | 6 | ? | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ? | 2 | 0 | 0 | 66 | 8 | 5 | |
according to combined sources on the Flamengo official website[3] and Flaestatística.[4]