Wellington Teixeira dos Montes, also known as Tom (born 21 June 1988), is a Brazilian footballer.

Club career

Brusque

Tom began his career with Brazilian side Brusque in January 2007, signing a 5-year contract. With Brusque, he won ''

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'' as well as ''

Recopa Sul-Brasileira The Recopa Sul-Brasileira was a Brazilian football competition reuniting the champions of four other competitions, which are the Copa FPF, the Copa Paraná, the Copa Santa Catarina and the Copa FGF, respectively played by teams of São Paulo, ...

'' in 2008. He never established himself as a first team player in the squad, however, and left on loan to other clubs, such as União de Timbó in 2007,

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in 2009,

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in 2012, and Hercílio Luz in 2011. All four of the aforementioned loan deals took place in the second half of each year, when the Campeonato Catarinense state league had ended. He briefly played in the national level for

in 2010 Campeonato Brasileiro Série D and he also scored 3 goals in the 2011 state league second division. Tom also scored once for

in 2009

Copa Paulista The Copa Paulista de Futebol, formerly known as Copa FPF, also sometimes called Copa Federação Paulista de Futebol or, in English, São Paulo State Cup, is a tournament organized by Federação Paulista de Futebol Company every second half of ...

. (round 5 winning São Bernardo 2–0) After just 7 national league appearances for Brusque during his four-year tenure, Tom transferred to

Uberaba Sport Club Uberaba Sport Club is a traditional List of football clubs in Brazil, Brazilian football club from Uberaba, Minas Gerais, Minas Gerais state. Their colors are red and white and their nicknames are "Colorado" and "Zebu" (mascot of the team and sy ...

Uberaba

Shortly after his contract with Brusque expired, Tom signed a short-term contract with

Uberaba Uberaba () is a city in the state of Minas Gerais, southeast Brazil. It is located in the Brazilian Highlands at above sea level on the Uberaba River, and away from the state capital, Belo Horizonte. The city status was granted in 1856, and i ...

until the end of Campeonato Mineiro. Tom only played once for the club on 29 January 2012 in a match against América de Teófilo Otoni.

Calcio Catania

On 31 January 2012 (around 30 January Brazil time), Tom was signed by Italian

Serie A The Serie A (), also called Serie A TIM for national sponsorship with TIM, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and the winner is awarded the Scudetto and the Cop ...

club

Calcio Catania Catania S.S.D., commonly known as Catania, is an Italian football club based in the city of Catania, Sicily, that plays in . Originally founded in 1908 as ''Associazione Sportiva pro Educazione Fisica'', the club boasts 17 appearances in the ...

on a -year contract. His transfer was mostly down to the will of former club CEO, Pietro Lo Monaco, who, upon Tom's arrival, was quoted, "He is a left back capable of running on the whole side. He's a pure left handed. I took him because I think he will be the new Martinho. By his style of play, he reminds me of him a lot." Tom wore no.15 shirt for Catania. Tom made his

debut on 13 May 2012, as an 85th-minute substitute on the 38th and final match-day against

Udinese Udinese Calcio, commonly referred to as Udinese, is a professional Italian football club based in Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, that currently plays in Serie A. It was founded on 30 November 1896 as a sports club, and on 5 July 1911 as a ...

. This would eventually turn out to be his only appearance for the Sicilian club.

Koper

On 19 July 2012, Tom signed for the

Slovenian PrvaLiga The Slovenian PrvaLiga ( sl, Prva slovenska nogometna liga, ), currently named Prva liga Telemach due to sponsorship reasons, also known by the abbreviation 1. SNL, is the top level of the Slovenian football league system. Contested by ten club ...

club Koper for an undisclosed fee.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tom 1988 births Living people Sportspeople from Santa Catarina (state) Brazilian footballers Association football fullbacks Brusque Futebol Clube players Associação Atlética Portuguesa (Santos) players Clube Atlético Metropolitano players Uberaba Sport Club players Catania S.S.D. players FC Koper players Campeonato Brasileiro Série D players Serie A players Slovenian PrvaLiga players Brazilian expatriate footballers Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Italy Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Slovenia Expatriate footballers in Italy Expatriate footballers in Slovenia