Paulo Henrique Ganso
Ganso in 2009
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| Full name | Paulo Henrique Chagas de Lima | |||||||||||
| Date of birth | 12 October 1989 | |||||||||||
| Place of birth | Ananindeua, Brazil | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||
| Playing position | Attacking midfielder | |||||||||||
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Current team
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Sevilla | |||||||||||
| Number | 19 | |||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||
| 1996–2004 | Tuna Luso | |||||||||||
| 2005 | Paysandu | |||||||||||
| 2005–2008 | Santos | |||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||
| 2008–2012 | Santos | 63 | (11) | |||||||||
| 2012–2016 | São Paulo | 106 | (9) | |||||||||
| 2016– | Sevilla | 8 | (3) | |||||||||
| National team‡ | ||||||||||||
| 2009 | Brazil U20 | 7 | (1) | |||||||||
| 2012 | Brazil U23 | 3 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2010–2016 | Brazil | 8 | (0) | |||||||||
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 22:55, 22 April 2017 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 22:55, 2 June 2012 (UTC) |
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Paulo Henrique Chagas de Lima (born 12 October 1989), commonly known as Ganso (lit. goose in Portuguese), is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for the Spanish club Sevilla FC and the Brazil national team as an attacking midfielder.
In 2009, he received a nomination for the Brazilian Football Confederation award for "Breakthrough Player" of the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, given to the best rookie of the competition.
Ganso was brought to Tuna Luso after being discovered by former Brazil international Giovanni. At 15 he joined Paysandu, but he was snapped up by Santos in 2005. In 2007, after an injury that sidelined him for six months, Ganso played in and won the final of the U-20 Campeonato Paulista. He wore the number 10 jersey in Santos' campaign in the Copa São Paulo of 2008, where his team was eliminated in the quarter-finals by Sport Club Internacional. He won the 2010 Campeonato Paulista with Santos on 2 May 2010, defeating Santo André in the final. In August 2010, it was reported that Ganso would have surgery on his injured left knee and would be out for six months. In October, Santos offered "agent company" DIS Group (subsidiary of Sonda Group, a Brazil supermarket chain; the D stands for Sonda president Delcir Sonda) to buy 70% image rights of the player, but the group did not accept the offer. He had a contract which would last until 28 February 2015 with a termination fee of €50 million. Group DIS reportedly owned 45% of the sporting rights of Ganso (which made the group eligible to receive a 45% transfer fee from Santos) after the court ruled in their favour. The case was highly acclaimed by the crowd until the time of his dismissal. Ganso's nickname while at the club was "Mercenário" (mercenary).
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