Leandro "Léo" Ferreira Medeiros (born May 14, 1981, in Recreio), is a Brazilian retired

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, and the current

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of Valeriodoce.

Career

Léo Medeiros is a midfielder who was successful in

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ease of play as attacking midfielder, and without the ball as wheel being used well in the scheme of coach

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, both in mining and in the club

Flamengo Clube de Regatas do Flamengo (; English: ''Flamengo Rowing Club''), more commonly referred to as simply Flamengo, is a Brazilian sports club based in Rio de Janeiro, in the neighborhood of Gávea, best known for their professional football ...

. It has come to Fla in the middle of 2006, along with Walter Minhoca and Diego da Silva, also from Jaipur and was the only remaining trio for the year 2007. Working with the Holy Mantle, Medeiros pointed up some goals, but had a very irregular and she alternated changeover good performances in matches and not so inspired. In 2008, considered disposable by Joel Santana, Leo was on loan at

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prompted by

that this time the team trained Paraná. Failing to keep good performances, the player was still far from the starting lineup at midseason, however, remained on the coaching staff of Curitiba. In 2009, again dismissed by the coaches, the player was loaned again, this time in

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arrived at the team carrying the status and salary of crack, about $50 000, resumed between Fla and

. He played the best matches of the club from Salvador in the first half, but still not pleased the coach

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, still at the beginning of the Brazilian Championship, asked her head and put him to train separately. By luck or chance, Medeiros saw soon after the coach and disaffection,

, be dismissed. So it was then reinstated to the team by new coach

, Paulo Comelli. Though reinstated, Léo Medeiros was no more consensus in

and was eventually released as soon as that team finished the season. In 2010, he presented himself again to Most Wanted from Brazil to perform the pre-season and was eventually reinstated to the first team squad games Cariocão. But the player did not take the chance offered by then-coach

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, who used improvised on the left back and ended up forgotten in the red-black cast. In the year 2014, and hung up the boots, the Nacional de Muriaé and in 2015, assumes another function, now out of the four lines being technical assistant of Valeriodoce.

Flamengo career statistics

:''(Correct January 17, 2010)'' ''according to combined sources on the Flamengo official website and Flaestatística.Flaestatística
''

Honours

* Minas Gerais State League: 2005 *

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: 2007, 2008 * Rio de Janeiro State League: 2007

Contract

* Flamengo 3 January 2008 to 31 December 2010 * Ipatinga until 31 December 2011

References

External links

CBF

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Guardian Stats Centre
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