Diego de Souza Andrade
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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 | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Sport Recife | ||
| Number | 87 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2002–2003 | Fluminense | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2003–2005 | Fluminense | 40 | (3) |
| 2005–2007 | Benfica | 8 | (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 | 41 | (14) |
| 2012 | Al Itthad | 8 | (3) |
| 2013 | Cruzeiro | 6 | (6) |
| 2013–2015 | Metalist Kharkiv | 19 | (1) |
| 2014–2015 | → Sport Recife (loan) | 53 | (13) |
| 2016 | Fluminense | 0 | (0) |
| 2016– | Sport Recife | 25 | (10) |
| National team‡ | |||
| Brazil U-17 | |||
| 2005 | Brazil U-20 | 2 | (0) |
| 2009– | Brazil | 3 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 13:42, 4 October 2016 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 25 January 2017 |
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Diego de Souza Andrade, or simply Diego Souza (born 17 June 1985), is a Brazilian footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Sport Recife in Campeonato Brasileiro Série A.
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.
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