Felipe Souza Campos (born 24 May 1981), sometimes known as just Felipe, is a Brazilian

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly ...

player, who plays for Guarani de Palhoça.

Biography

Club career

An attacking

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

who occupies the hole between midfield and the strikers, he joined the

Wellington Phoenix Wellington Phoenix Football Club is a professional association football club based in Wellington, New Zealand. It competes in the Australian A-League, under licence from Football Federation Australia. Phoenix entered the competition in the ...

prior to the 2007–08 season and signed a 9-month contract with the option of a further year at the end of that. He quickly became a crowd favourite at Wellington, showcasing skills rarely seen in the A-League. In a round 4 away clash against

Sydney FC Sydney Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Sydney, New South Wales. It competes in the country's premier men's competition, A-League Men, under licence from Australian Professional Leagues (APL). The club was f ...

managed to come out victors 2–1, with Felipe Campos scoring a stunning goal. Felipe Campos was signed by the

Gold Coast Galaxy Gold Coast United Football Club is an Australian soccer club based in Gold Coast, Queensland. The earliest incarnation of the club formed in 1966 and its home ground was at Nikiforides Family Park in Broadbeach. The first era of Gold Coast Unit ...

, but became a free agent after the FFA turned down the Gold Coast licence application for the Australian

A-League A-League Men (known as the Isuzu UTE A-League for sponsorship reasons) is the highest-level professional men's soccer league in Australia and New Zealand. At the top of the Australian league system, it is the country's premier men's competiti ...

2008–09 season. After Australia, Felipe spent 3 weeks with Wisla Krakow in Poland, but when the transfer window closed, he went back to Brazil to play with a local club. He was signed by the

North Queensland Fury Northern Fury Football Club was an Australian professional soccer club based in Townsville, Queensland. The club was founded in 2008 and competed in the A-League under the name North Queensland Fury. On 1 March 2011, the club was removed from th ...

on a 2-year contract.Fury sign up Felipe for two
Before joining up with North Queensland, Felipe decided to play in Saudi Arabia with

Al Raed Al Raed Saudi Football Club ( ''Nādī ar-Rāʾid'', "Pioneer Club") is a Saudi football club based in Buraidah, and the first of its kind in the Qassim region of Saudi Arabia. One of the club's notable founders is Abdulaziz Al-Aboudi. Established ...

, and was released by the Fury from his 2-year contract. In June 2010, he was loaned to Al-Wehda by

References

External links

CBF profile
* 1981 births Living people People from Jacareí A-League Men players Brazilian footballers Brazilian expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Croatia Expatriate association footballers in New Zealand Expatriate footballers in Saudi Arabia Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Saudi Arabia Association football midfielders Associação Desportiva Cabofriense players HNK Hajduk Split players Northern Fury FC players Wellington Phoenix FC players Al-Wehda Club (Mecca) players Al-Raed FC players Madureira Esporte Clube players Guarani de Palhoça players Saudi Professional League players Footballers from São Paulo (state) {{Brazil-footy-midfielder-1980s-stub