Pedro Henrique de Castro Silva (born 5 February 1993), known as Pedro Castro, is a Brazilian

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who plays as a

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for

Avaí Avaí is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 milli ...

Club career

Born in

Volta Redonda Volta Redonda () is the name of a municipality in the 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) and with a population of 273,988 inhabitants (estima ...

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, Pedro Castro finished his graduation in prolific

Santos FC Santos Futebol Clube (), commonly known simply as Santos or Santos FC and nicknamed the ''Peixe'' (; "fish"), is a Brazilian sports club based in Vila Belmiro, a '' bairro'' in the city of Santos. It is also the team with the most goals i ...

's youth setup, and was promoted to the first team in January 2012, after impressing with the U-20's. Pedro Castro made his professional debut on 5 August, starting in a 0–3 away loss against Náutico. On 24 September 2013 he signed a new deal with the club, extending his link until 2016. On 16 December, Pedro Castro was loaned to

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side

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until the end of the European season, with a

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5 million buyout clause; a few days later, it was confirmed that he will play initially for the reserves in Segunda División B. However, Pedro Castro only appeared twice with the B-side during the campaign, and subsequently returned to ''Peixe''. On 22 July 2014 he joined

Paraná Clube Paraná Clube, commonly referred to as Paraná, is a Brazilian professional club based in Curitiba, Paraná founded on 19 December 1989. It competes in the Campeonato Paranaense Série Prata, the second tier of the Paraná state football leag ...

also in a temporary deal, until the end of the year. Pedro Castro subsequently had loan spells at Santa Cruz and Botafogo-PB. On 12 January 2017, after the expiration of his contract with Santos, he signed with Tombense. On 5 June 2017, Pedro Castro signed for

on loan until the end of the year. On 4 January of the following year, he agreed to a one-year deal with

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, with his federative rights still owned by Tombense, but after being rarely used he returned to Avaí.

Career statistics

Honours

Santos *

Copa São Paulo de Futebol Júnior The Copa São Paulo de Futebol Júnior (or ''São Paulo Youth Football Cup'', in English), also known as Copa São Paulo de Juniores (''São Paulo Youth Cup'') and Copinha (''Little Cup''), is a cup competition played by Brazilian under-20 associ ...

: 2013 Santa Cruz * Campeonato Pernambucano: 2015 Avaí *

Campeonato Catarinense The Campeonato Catarinense de Futebol, known as Campeonato Catarinense or simply Catarinense, is the main competition of association football from state of Santa Catarina, in Brazil. History The Campeonato Catarinense top level has had several ...

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Botafogo * Campeonato Brasileiro Série B:

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Cruzeiro * Campeonato Brasileiro Série B:

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