Diego de Souza Xavier (born 16 January 1993), known as Diego Souza, is a Brazilian

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who plays for Treze as an

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Club career

Born in

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, Diego Souza joined

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' youth setup in 2010, aged 17, after starting it out at

. On 25 November 2012 Diego Souza made his first team – and Série A – debut for the former, coming on as a second-half substitute for

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in a 1–2 home loss against

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. After appearing in only one further match during the year, he was loaned to Oeste on 25 July 2013. Diego Souza returned to ''Verdão'' on 3 January 2014, but was subsequently loaned to União Barbarense,

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, Portuguesa, Ferroviária and Juventude. In December 2018, after a period out of the game due to a cruciate ligament injury, he signed for Noroeste. He moved to Comercial for the 2020

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, but again suffered a knee injury and missed the first half of the 2021 season. In January 2022 he signed for Treze.

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