Luiz Eduardo Azevedo Dantas (born 24 May 1985 in

Parelhas Parelhas is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Norte in the Northeast region of Brazil. See also *List of municipalities in Rio Grande do Norte Rio Grande do Norte ( en, Great River of the North) is a state located in the Northeas ...

) is a former Brazilian

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who played as a

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Career

Brazil

For four years in his country, Luiz Eduardo played for

ABC Futebol Clube ABC Futebol Clube, commonly referred to as ABC, is a Brazilian professional club based in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte founded on 29 June 1915. It competes in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série B, the second tier of Brazilian football, as well as i ...

Ceará Sporting Club Ceará Sporting Club, or Ceará, as they are usually called, is a Brazilian football team from the city of Fortaleza, capital city of the Brazilian state of Ceará, founded on June 2, 1914, by Luís Esteves and Pedro Freire. Ceará is one of ...

Santa Cruz Futebol Clube Santa Cruz Futebol Clube is a Brazilian professional football club based in Recife, Pernambuco, that competes in the Série D, the fourth tier of Brazilian football, as well as in the Campeonato Pernambucano, the top flight of the Pernambuco ...

Social Futebol Clube Social Futebol Clube, usually known simply as Social, is a currently inactive Brazilian football club from Coronel Fabriciano, founded in 1944. Their home stadium is Louis Ensch Stadium, which has a maximum capacity of 6,000 people. The club co ...

, Caldense,

Volta Redonda Volta Redonda () is the name of a Municipalities of Brazil, municipality in the Rio de Janeiro (state), Rio de Janeiro state of Brazil with an area of 182.81 km2, located from 350m to 707m above the sea level (22°31'23" S, 44°06'15" W) an ...

and

Londrina Esporte Clube Londrina Esporte Clube, more commonly referred to as Londrina, is a Brazilian professional association football club in Londrina, Paraná which currently plays in Série B, the second tier of Brazilian football, after being promoted from Sé ...

Montana

In June 2009, Eduardo relocated to

Bulgaria Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedon ...

, signing a contract with

PFC Montana FC Montana ( bg, ФК Монтана) is a Bulgarian association football club based in Montana, which currently plays in the Second League, the second level of Bulgarian football league system. Montana plays its home matches at the Ogosta Sta ...

. On 22 August 2009, he made his

A Group 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 ...

debut in a match against

Minyor Pernik FC Minyor ( bg, ФК Миньор) is a football club in Pernik, Bulgaria, that competes in the Second League, the second tier of Bulgarian football. Founded in 1919 as SC Krakra, the club's home ground since 1954 has been Stadion Minyor. The c ...

. Eduardo scored a goal for the first time in Bulgaria on 17 October 2009 against

Lokomotiv Plovdiv PFC Lokomotiv Plovdiv ( bg, ПФК Локомотив Пловдив), commonly known as Loko Plovdiv, is a Bulgarian professional football club based in Plovdiv. Lokomotiv's home ground is the Lokomotiv Stadium which is situated in Lauta Park ...

, netting twice in a 2–3 loss. In January 2010, it was reported in the Bulgaria media that he was a target for Armenian side

FC Banants Football Club Urartu ( hy, Ուրարտու Ֆուտբոլային Ակումբ, translated ''Futbolayin Akumb Urartu''), commonly known as Urartu, is an Armenian professional football team based in the capital Yerevan that currently plays in the ...

. He left

at the end of 2011–12 season when his contract expired.

References

External links

Profile at jogadoresdobrasil.com
* 1985 births Living people Brazilian men's footballers ABC Futebol Clube players Esporte Clube Bahia players Ceará Sporting Club players Santa Cruz Futebol Clube players FC Montana players FC Etar 1924 Veliko Tarnovo players Adana Demirspor footballers Associação Atlética Caldense players Boa Esporte Clube players Luverdense Esporte Clube players América Futebol Clube (RN) players Expatriate men's footballers in Bulgaria Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Bulgaria Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players Men's association football forwards {{Brazil-footy-forward-1980s-stub