Personal information | |||
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Full name | Hamílton Hênio Ferreira Calheiros | ||
Date of birth | 26 June 1980 | ||
Place of birth | Murici, Brazil | ||
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
Playing position | Defensive midfielder, right midfielder | ||
Youth career | |||
2000 | Estanciano | ||
2001 | Sergipe | ||
2001–2002 | AS Togo-Port | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2002–2005 | Sergipe | – | (–) |
2005 | Mogi Mirim | – | (–) |
2006 | Sport Recife | 34 | (0) |
2006–2008 | Ankaraspor | 23 | (1) |
2008–2010 | Sociedade Boca Júnior | – | (–) |
2008 | → Naútico (loan) | 11 | (0) |
2009 | → Sport Recife (loan) | 28 | (0) |
2010 | → Naútico (loan) | 8 | (0) |
2011–2012 | Sport Recife | 31 | (2) |
2013 | ABC | ||
2013 | Ceará | ||
National team‡ | |||
2001 | Brazil U17 | 7 | (0) |
2003–2004 | Togo U20 | 15 | (9) |
2003– | Togo | 1 | (0) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 11 March 2013 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 01:41, 23 April 2009 (UTC) |
Hamílton Hênio Ferreira Calheiros (born June 26, 1980), known simply as Hamílton, is a naturalized Togolese football midfielder, who plays for Ceará in the Brazilian Série B.
Hamílton was born in Murici, a municipality located in the western of the Brazilian state of Alagoas.
Hamílton has been naturalized Togolese in 2003 across of Antônio Dumas, which this one was Togo's coach. In that time, Hamílton won the Campeonato Sergipano with Sergipe and Dumas has spoken with the president of the Fédération Togolaise de Football (FTF) and the latter agreed.
Hamílton, up to the date, was one time Togo national team's player. It was on October 11, 2003 in a World Cup 2006 Qualifying match against Equatorial Guinea in Malabo. That day Les Eperviers (the nickname of Togo national football team) lost by 1-0. Hamílton could not have played in the second leg because he had left the Togolese passport in the Federation.
In early 2004, when Dumas resigned as head coach, Hamílton, and the others Brazilian-born who made up the Togolese squad, were never called.
On July 10, 2009 appeared a news about the Fédération Togolaise de Football resumed contact with Hamílton for can be called again, almost 6 years of his unique appearance.