Leandro Amaro dos Santos Ferreira (born June 19, 1986 in

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) is a Brazilian

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defender, who plays for São Bernardo.

Career

Contracted since his youth with

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, Leandro Amaro had several loan spells with Cabofriense, Villa Nova, Marilia, Villa Nova, Goianiense and

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before signing for

Palmeiras Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras (), commonly known as Palmeiras, is a Brazilian professional football club based in the city of São Paulo, in the district of Perdizes. Palmeiras is one of the most popular clubs in South America, with around ...

in 2010. After two years in the Palmeiras team he was loaned out successively to

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, Náutico and Chapecoense in 2013 and 2014 before his contract expired. In 2015 he was contracted to

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, but agreed a mutual termination in August. He played with

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in early 2016, but was signed by

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in April of that year to strengthen their side in the quarter-final stages of the

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second division. At the end of that campaign he moved to Guarani for the

2016 Campeonato Brasileiro Série C The Serie C of the Brazilian Championship 2016 is a football competition being held in Brazil, equivalent to the third division. It is being contested by 20 clubs in two geographic groups. Teams Number of teams by state League table Group ...

, winning promotion. He was not retained by Guarani, and signed for Ferroviária for the

2017 Campeonato Paulista The 2017 Campeonato Paulista de Futebol Profissional da Primeira Divisão - Série A1 was the 116th season of São Paulo's top professional football league. Format *In the first stage the sixteen teams are drawn, with seeding, into four groups o ...

. From there he agreed a contract with Oeste for the

2017 Campeonato Brasileiro Série B The Serie B of the Brazilian Championship 2017 was a football competition held in Brazil, equivalent to the second division. It was contested by 20 clubs, between 12 May and 25 November. The top four teams were promoted to Série A in 2018 and t ...

. The club finished 6th, and he renewed for the 2018 season, but after a poor start to the Série B campaign he was released and immediately re-signed for Mirassol for their 2018 Copa Paulista and

2019 Campeonato Paulista The 2019 Campeonato Paulista de Futebol Profissional da Primeira Divisão - Série A1 was the 118th season of São Paulo's top professional football league. Format *In the first stage the sixteen teams were drawn, with seeding, into four groups ...

campaigns. He signed for

, newly promoted to Série B, in April 2019.

Career statistics

Honours

;Palmeiras *

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References

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