David Henrique dos Santos (born 19 March 1990 in
Maceió
Maceió (), formerly sometimes Anglicised as Maceio, is the capital and the largest city of the coastal state of Alagoas, Brazil. The name "Maceió" is an Indigenous term for a spring. Most maceiós flow to the sea, but some get trapped and form l ...
) is a Brazilian
footballer
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who currently plays as a
defensive 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 boundari ...
.
Manteiga formerly played for
Gama in his country Brazil before signing for
Feyenoord
Feyenoord Rotterdam () is a Dutch professional football club (association football), football club in Rotterdam, which plays in the Eredivisie, the top tier in Dutch football. Founded as Wilhelmina in 1908, the club changed to various names bef ...
in 2008.
After loan spells
Excelsior
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* ''Excelsior'' (Macedo ...
and
Ponte Preta he returned to Brazil to play for
Grêmio Prudente.
References
External links
*
1990 births
Living people
Brazilian men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Esporte Clube Vitória players
Criciúma Esporte Clube players
Sociedade Esportiva do Gama players
CR Vasco da Gama players
Feyenoord players
Associação Atlética Ponte Preta players
Grêmio Barueri Futebol players
Eredivisie players
Brazilian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands
Footballers from Maceió
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