Paulo Vitor de Souza Barreto (born 12 July 1985), known as Barreto, is a Brazilian

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who plays as a

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Club career

Early career

Barreto grew up in the youth ranks of

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. In 2002, he was loaned to A.C. Milan where he was part of the Allievi Nazionale side that won that year's , defeating

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in the final.

Udinese

After scoring 12 goals in the 2004–05 season for Treviso, he was signed by Udinese, who gave him the opportunity to mark his debut not only in the Italian top flight but also in European competition, in which he scored two goals against RC Lens during the 2005–06

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Loan to Treviso

He returned to Treviso on loan in 2007, scoring 14 goals in 2007–08.

Bari

Barreto spent the 2008–09 season on loan at

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, with whom he scored his first

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on 21 April 2009 during a match with

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. He contributed 23 goals during the season that saw Bari crowned

champions, under

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. In 2009–10 season, his loan was extended and his goal scoring made Bari impress in the first half of the Serie A season. However, after the injury of centre-back

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and his striking partner

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, the team performance also slipped. On 25 June 2010, Bari signed him in a co-ownership bid, for €4.5 million. In the next season, despite Kutuzov was recovered from injury, the team saw the departures of Italian international centre-backs

and Leonardo Bonucci. With the failure to sign important replacements, not only for the centre-backs, the team conceded more goals and their tactics where affected. Barreto scored 4 goals before the winter break as team top-scorer, however much lesser than his performance last Christmas. The team finished as the bottom to enter the winter break. Barreto also injured in November, the match against

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. He injured again after came out from injury in December, against

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Return to Udinese and Torino

On 24 June 2011, his contract was redeemed by Udinese for €3 million, with whom he only played 12 games. On 17 January 2013,

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purchased him for €1.8 million from Udinese in another co-ownership deal, in a -year contract. Here, he found Giampiero Ventura, his coach at

. He debuted for the ''Granata'' on 20 January in an away fixture against

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won by Torino 2–0. He scored his first goal with Torino on 30 March against Napoli at the

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, his first goal in 874 days. He scored again in the next week away to

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, scoring the momentary 0–1. He ended the season with 16 appearances and three goals and on 19 June the co-ownership between the ''Friuli'' and Turin was renewed. In June 2014 Torino redeemed his entire contract in a blind auction, for an additional €859,000.

Late career

In summer 2015 Barreto was signed by Serie D club Venezia on a free transfer. He terminated the contract in December 2015. In summer 2019 he restarted his career by signing with Serie C club Gozzano.

Career statistics

Honours

Bari *

: 2008-09 Venezia *

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(Group C): 2015–16

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Barreto Living people 1985 births Footballers from Rio de Janeiro (city) Brazilian men's footballers Men's association football forwards Brazilian expatriate men's footballers Serie A players Serie B players Serie C players Serie D players Treviso FBC 1993 players AC Milan players Udinese Calcio players SSC Bari players Torino FC players Venezia FC players AC Gozzano players Expatriate men's footballers in Italy