Leomir Soares Cruz (born 7 April 1987), commonly known as Leomir, is a Brazilian
footballer
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who plays as a
midfielder
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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 ...
Criciúma
Criciúma is a city in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina. At , it is located 180 km south of Florianópolis, the state capital and around 900 km south of São Paulo. The city is the center of Brazil's flooring and home materials in ...
in 2010, before a move to Moto Club. His third club was Ituano, he didn't make a league appearance but did play 12 times for the club in the 2011 Campeonato Paulista; a season in-which Ituano survived relegation on goal difference. One year later, Leomir made a move to
Red Bull Brasil
Red Bull Brasil is a professional association football club based in Bragança Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil. The team currently plays in the Campeonato Paulista Série A3, the third tier of the São Paulo state football league. As it is also Red ...
and then
Mirassol
Mirassol is a municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The city is located in the northern part of the state, 453 km from the city of São Paulo and 15 km from São José do Rio Preto. Mirassol has 60,303 inhabitants (IBGE/2020). ...
, he made his debut for the latter on 1 July 2012 against
Arapongas
Arapongas is a municipality within the state of Paraná, South Region, Brazil. It is located in the Metropolitan area of Londrina, Microregion Apucarana and Mesoregion North Central Paranaense, being located at a distance of 386 km from the ...
in Série D. He went on to make 7 further league appearances in his first season with Mirassol, the following season saw Leomir make 16 appearances in the club's relegation campaign in the 2013 Campeonato Paulista.
Shortly after the state championship season had ended Leomir left Mirassol to join Série C side Mogi Mirim. He made 12 appearances in Brazil's third tier before departing. After leaving Mogi Mirim, he signed for fellow Série C club
Botafogo
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, he played in 11 matches for Botafogo over the course of 2014 in three different competitions before moving clubs once again. Leomir's next club was
Marília
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, he made 8 appearances for the club in
Campeonato Paulista
The Campeonato Paulista Série A1, commonly known as Campeonato Paulista, nicknamed Paulistão, is the top-flight professional association football, football league in the Brazilian States of Brazil, state of São Paulo (state), São Paulo. Run b ...
before departing to make a move to Toledo and subsequently moving outside of Brazil for the first time as he agreed to sign for Albanian Superliga side Kukësi in 2015.
He participated in 15 matches between September and December for the
Kukës
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based club. January 2016 saw Leomir leave Kukësi and return to Brazil as he signed for
Campeonato Mineiro
Campeonato Mineiro is the state football league of the state of Minas Gerais and is controlled by the Minas Gerais Football Federation FMF (Federação Mineira de Futebol).
The history of Campeonato Mineiro can be divided into two parts: befor ...
, he left and eventually completed a transfer to
São Paulo
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Ipatinga
Ipatinga is a municipality in eastern Minas Gerais state, Brazil. The city was founded on 29 April 1964 and covers a total area of . Its population is 267,333 as of 2021. It is part of the Vale do Aço (Steel Valley) metropolitan area (populati ...
. Leomir subsequently scored four goals in twelve as Guarani won promotion to the Campeonato Mineiro after defeating
Uberaba
Uberaba () is a city in the state of Minas Gerais, southeast Brazil. It is located in the Brazilian Highlands at above sea level on the Uberaba River, and away from the state capital, Belo Horizonte. The city status was granted in 1856, and i ...
on 21 April. On 5 May, Gurani won the Mineiro II title after defeating Tupynambás.
Three months later, in 2018, Leomir was on the move again as he signed for
CRAC
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Plot
The story follows the experiences of a rocking chair, from its creation from a tree through its time as a member of a Canadian farming family.
Recept ...
of the
Campeonato Goiano
The Campeonato Goiano is the football league of the state of Goiás, Brazil.
Format
First Division
First stage
*Teams are divided in two groups of six teams.
*Double round-robin, in which all teams home-and-away games against the team fr ...
lower leagues; his fourteenth senior club. They won the second tier title in September 2018, with Leomir netting two goals throughout the campaign. He rejoined Guarani in the following November ahead of the 2019 campaign. He subsequently featured nine times as they suffered relegation. Across the following twelve months, Leomir had spells with
Bagé
Bagé () is a city located in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. In 2020, its population was 121,335 in a total area of 4,096 km2. It was the seventeenth largest city in the state according to the 2011 census. The city was founded in 18 ...
(in Divisão de Acesso) and Jaraguá (in Campeonato Goiano).
Career statistics
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Honours
;Botafogo
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Campeonato Paraibano
The Campeonato Paraibano is the football league of the state of Paraíba, Brazil.
Format
As in any other Brazilian soccer championship, the format can change and be adapted every year, mostly to avoid conflicts for the teams that will compete ...
Campeonato Mineiro Módulo II
The Campeonato Mineiro Módulo II is the second tier of football league of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Participants
''2022 edition''
List of champions
Amateur era
The first era of second tier of Minas Gerais football was the Serie B ...