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. The first or maternal

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is Matos and the second or paternal family name is Dos Santos.'' Sténio Nivaldo Matos dos Santos (born 6 May 1988), commonly known as Sténio, is a Cape Verde international

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who plays as a

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for Sacavenense.

Career

Born in

Mindelo Mindelo is a port cityCabo Verde, Statistical Yearbook ...

, Sténio started his career at hometown club

Académica do Mindelo Associação Académica do Mindelo (Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: ''Akadémika'', São Vicente Crioulo: ''Académica'' or ''Akadémika'') is a football club that had played in the Premier division and the São Vicente Island League in C ...

. In 2009, he joined the other club in the town

CS Mindelense Clube Sportivo Mindelense (Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: ''KS Mindelensi'' (''KS'' – ''Klubi Sporting''), São Vicente Crioulo: ''KS Mindelense'' (''KS'' – ''Klube or Clube (CS)'') is a football club that plays in the Prem ...

. On 1 July 2014, Sténio joined

Cherno More Varna Cherno More ( bg, Черно Море) is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in the city of Varna, which currently competes in Bulgaria's primary football competition, the First League. Founded on March 3, 1913, as an assoc ...

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on a two-year contract. On 30 May 2015, Sténio was sent off with a second yellow card after 38 minutes in the 2015 Bulgarian Cup Final against

Levski Sofia Levski Sofia ( bg, Левски София) is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia, which competes in the First League, the top division of the Bulgarian football league system. The club was founded on 24 May 1914 b ...

, but his team managed to prevail after extra time despite its numerical disadvantage. In July 2016, he signed a one-year contract with

Botev Plovdiv Profesionalen Futbolen Klub Botev, commonly referred to as Botev Plovdiv ( bg, „Ботев“ Пловдив, ) or simply Botev (within its associated city), is a Bulgarian professional football club based in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, that competes ...

. He was released in December. Sténio left

FK Ventspils FK Ventspils is a Latvian football club, based at Ventspils Olimpiskais Stadions in Ventspils city and is one of the most popular football clubs in the country. The club played in the Latvian Virsliga since 1997. It was abolished in 2020, but h ...

after one year, at the end of 2018.FK VENTSPILS TRANSFĒRU JAUNUMI
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International career

Sténio received his first call-up to the

Cape Verde , national_anthem = () , official_languages = Portuguese , national_languages = Cape Verdean Creole , capital = Praia , coordinates = , largest_city = capital , demonym ...

squad in May 2012, for the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifier against

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on 2 June. He made his debut in the match, playing from the start in central midfield. In January 2013, Sténio was named in

Cape Verde , national_anthem = () , official_languages = Portuguese , national_languages = Cape Verdean Creole , capital = Praia , coordinates = , largest_city = capital , demonym ...

's squad for the

2013 Africa Cup of Nations The 2013 Africa Cup of Nations, also known as the Orange Africa Cup of Nations South Africa 2013 for sponsorship reasons, held from 19 January to 10 February 2013, was the 29th Africa Cup of Nations, the football championship of Africa organized ...

, but did not feature in any of the four games Cape Verde played.

Career statistics

Club

Honours

Club

;Cherno More *

Bulgarian Cup The Bulgarian Cup ( bg, Купа на България, Kupa na Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian annual football competition. It is the country's main cup competition and all officially registered Bulgarian football teams take part in it. The tournament ...

: 2014–15 *

Bulgarian Supercup The Bulgarian Supercup ( bg, Суперкупа на България) is the trophy won in a football match held between the football club that has won the Bulgarian first football division in the season that ended in the year of the match and ...

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References

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Stenio 1988 births Living people Cape Verdean men's footballers Cape Verde men's international footballers Académica do Mindelo players CS Mindelense players C.D. Feirense players PFC Cherno More Varna players Botev Plovdiv players FC Politehnica Iași (2010) players FC Dacia Chișinău players FK Ventspils players Primeira Liga players First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players Liga I players Moldovan Super Liga players Latvian Higher League players 2013 Africa Cup of Nations players Men's association football midfielders Cape Verdean expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Portugal Cape Verdean expatriate sportspeople in Portugal Expatriate men's footballers in Bulgaria Cape Verdean expatriate sportspeople in Bulgaria Expatriate men's footballers in Romania Cape Verdean expatriate sportspeople in Romania Expatriate men's footballers in Moldova Cape Verdean expatriate sportspeople in Moldova Expatriate men's footballers in Latvia People from Mindelo