Diego Souza (footballer, born 1985)
Diego with Metalist Kharkiv in 2013
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Diego de Souza Andrade | ||
| Date of birth | 17 June 1985 | ||
| Place of birth | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | ||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Playing position | Attacking midfielder / Forward | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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São Paulo | ||
| Number | 9 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2002–2003 | Fluminense | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2003–2005 | Fluminense | 40 | (3) |
| 2005–2007 | Benfica | 0 | (0) |
| 2005–2006 | → Flamengo (loan) | 23 | (5) |
| 2007 | → Grêmio (loan) | 33 | (8) |
| 2008–2010 | Palmeiras | 67 | (14) |
| 2010–2011 | Atlético Mineiro | 28 | (5) |
| 2011–2012 | Vasco da Gama | 22 | (9) |
| 2012 | Al-Ittihad | 4 | (1) |
| 2013 | Cruzeiro | 6 | (1) |
| 2013–2015 | Metalist Kharkiv | 18 | (1) |
| 2014–2015 | → Sport Recife (loan) | 53 | (13) |
| 2016 | Fluminense | 0 | (0) |
| 2016–2017 | Sport Recife | 61 | (25) |
| 2018– | São Paulo | 8 | (4) |
| National team‡ | |||
| Brazil U-17 | |||
| 2005 | Brazil U-20 | 2 | (0) |
| 2009– | Brazil | 7 | (2) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 11 June 2018 ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 7 January 2018 |
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Diego de Souza Andrade (born 17 June 1985), or simply Diego Souza, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for São Paulo FC as an attacking midfielder.
Diego Souza began playing club football for Fluminense in the Brazilian League where he quickly impressed and earned a move to Europe.
Benfica signed him from Fluminense and loaned to Flamengo. He returned to Benfica in 2006–07 Primeira Liga but only appeared on 19 September 2006 as unused bench. In 2007, he went on loan to Grêmio. He was influential at Grêmio scoring a handful of goals most notably a set-piece against Santos FC as they made the Copa Libertadores final losing out to Boca Juniors.
In 2008, he moved to Palmeiras (and partner) for €3.75M total fee. He signed a contract until December 2011. Co-currently, along with Lenny, Fluminense transferred its shares on both players' economic rights to Desportivo Brasil (owned by Traffic Group) as part of the deal, made Fluminense gained a profit of R$ 1,320 thousand and R$1,500 thousand respectively. Both players were signed by Palmeiras as part of R$40 million partnership with Traffic, which Palmeiras only owned 10~20% of the rights of Diego.
On 18 April 2009, he received a red card after an argument with Domingos during the state semi finals match against Santos. He later took Domingos down after coming back to the field.
On 29 November 2009, he scored a magnificent goal against Atlético Mineiro from the mid-field area. At the same year in the Série A, Diego Souza helped Palmeiras lead until the end, but lost the title in the last rounds of the tournament.
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