João Natailton Ramos dos Santos or simply Joãozinho (russian: Жоао Натаилтон Рамос Дос Сантос; born 25 December 1988) is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a right or left winger for

Sochi Sochi ( rus, Со́чи, p=ˈsotɕɪ, a=Ru-Сочи.ogg) is the largest resort city in Russia. The city is situated on the Sochi River, along the Black Sea in Southern Russia, with a population of 466,078 residents, up to 600,000 residents in ...

Career

Levski Sofia

He signed his five-year-contract with

Levski Sofia Levski Sofia ( bg, Левски София) is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia, which competes in the First League, the top division of the Bulgarian football league system. The club was founded on 24 May 1914 b ...

on 7 December 2007. The same day he made his first training with his new club. Joãozinho made his unofficial debut in a friendly match against

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on 20 January 2008. He played for 45 minutes. Levski lost the match with a result of 1–2. His initial number was supposed to be 20, but when

Hristo Yovov Hristo Georgiev Yovov ( bg, Христо Георгиев Йовов) (born 4 November 1977) is a Bulgarian former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. He spent all of his club career in his native Bulgaria with the exc ...

left

there were no troubles for Joãozinho to play with number 10. He scored his first goal for Levski on 10 February 2008 in a friendly match against

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. Joãozinho scored a

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. Joãozinho made his official debut for Levski on 24 February 2008 in a match against Chernomorets Burgas, the match from Bulgarian

A PFG The First Professional Football League ( bg, Първа професионална футболна лига, Parva Profesionalna Futbolna Liga), also known as the Bulgarian First League or Parva Liga, currently known as the efbet League for spon ...

. Levski won the match. The result was 2–1, after goals from Jean Carlos and

Daniel Borimirov Daniel Borimirov Borisov ( bg, Даниел Боримиров Борисов; born 15 January 1970) is a Bulgarian former professional Association football, footballer who played mainly as an attacking midfielder. Borimirov's professional playi ...

. He scored his first goal for Levski on 22 March 2008 against

Belasitsa Petrich OFC Belasitsa ( bg, ОФК Беласица Петрич) is a Bulgarian football club from the town of Petrich, currently playing in the Second League. The team was founded in 1923. They play at the Stadion Tsar Samuil in Petrich, which has a ...

in the 87th minute, making the result 4-0 for Levski. He directed the ball into the net after a shot by

Darko Tasevski Darko Tasevski ( bg, Дарко Тасевски; born 20 May 1984) is a Macedonian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Bulgarian First League club Slavia Sofia. He holds also Bulgarian citizenship. Club career Prior to joini ...

which was going out of the goalkeeper's frame. He became a Champion of Bulgaria in 2009. He was also honoured with a fairplay award for 2009 due to not receiving a single booking in the

during that year.

Krasnodar

On 30 January 2011, after days of speculations, Joãozinho revealed that he had moved to

Krasnodar Krasnodar (; rus, Краснода́р, p=krəsnɐˈdar; ady, Краснодар), formerly Yekaterinodar (until 1920), is the largest city and the administrative centre of Krasnodar Krai, Russia. The city stands on the Kuban River in southern ...

. In early February 2011, the transfer was finalized and the Brazilian signed his contract with the Russian club. On 6 February 2011, Joãozinho made his unofficial debut for the team from

, playing the first 63 minutes in the 2–2 draw with

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side

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in a

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. On 15 February 2011, he scored a goal and provided an assist in the 4–0 rout against

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club

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. Joãozinho's official debut came on 6 March 2011 in the 1–0 win against

Amkar Perm FC Amkar Perm (russian: link=no, Футбо́льный клуб "Амка́р" Пермь ) is a professional association football, football club. Originally founded in 1994, it is based in the city of Perm, Russia, Perm. It was a participant in ...

in a Russian Cup match, with the Brazilian being in the starting line-up. His

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debut occurred 6 days later in the 0–0 away draw with

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. On 14 June 2011, the Brazilian opened his account for the team, netting twice in the 4–2 home win against

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. He suffered a broken foot in a March 2015 match. He left Krasnodar at the end of the 2017–18 season.

Dynamo Moscow

On 23 July 2018, he signed a one-year contract with

FC Dynamo Moscow FC Dynamo Moscow (''FC Dynamo Moskva'', russian: Дина́мо Москва́ ) is a Russian football club based in Moscow. Dynamo returned to the Russian Premier League for the 2017–18 season after one season in the second-tier Russian Footb ...

. On 10 June 2019, he extended his contract for another year with an option to extend it for the 2020–21 season as well.

Sochi

On 11 August 2020, he signed with

Career statistics

Honours

Club

;Levski Sofia *

(1): 2009 *

Bulgarian Supercup The Bulgarian Supercup ( bg, Суперкупа на България) is the trophy won in a football match held between the football club that has won the Bulgarian first football division in the season that ended in the year of the match and ...

(1): 2009

Individual

– Krasnodar fans' and footballers' player of the

season A season is a division of the year based on changes in weather, ecology, and the number of daylight hours in a given region. On Earth, seasons are the result of the axial parallelism of Earth's tilted orbit around the Sun. In temperate and pol ...

: 2013–2014 * List of 33 top players of the Russian league: 2013/14.

Personal life

In August 2016, he received

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...

n citizenship. Joãozinho is dating the Russian model Lera Yalovets. In the fall of 2017 the couple announced that they are expecting their first child.

References

External links

Joãozinho`s profile on Levski Sofia web-site

Joãozinho`s profile on LevskiSofia.info

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Joaozinho 1988 births Sportspeople from Sergipe Naturalised citizens of Russia Living people Brazilian footballers Russian footballers Association football midfielders Associação Portuguesa de Desportos players PFC Levski Sofia players FC Krasnodar players FC Dynamo Moscow players PFC Sochi players First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players Russian Premier League players Brazilian expatriate footballers Russian expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Bulgaria Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Bulgaria Expatriate footballers in Russia Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Russia Russian expatriate sportspeople in Bulgaria