António Wesllem Sousa Monteiro (born 21 April 1985), known as Wesllem, is a Portuguese

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who plays for Cypriot club

Anagennisi Deryneia FC Anagennisi Deryneia ( el, Αναγέννηση Δερύνειας) is Cypriot football team based in Deryneia, Famagusta. The club was founded in 1920 and they joined the Cyprus Football Association in 1972. The team played in the Cypriot First di ...

as a

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Club career

Born in

Marco de Canaveses Marco de Canaveses () is a city and municipality on Porto district, in northern Portugal. The population in 2011 was 53,450, in an area of 201.89 km². The city itself had a population of 9,042 in 2001. Geography The city of Marco Canaves ...

Porto District The District of Porto ( pt, Distrito do Porto ) is located on the north-west coast of Portugal. The district capital is the city of Porto, the second largest city in the country. It is bordered by the Aveiro and Viseu districts to the south, Br ...

of Brazilian descent, Wesllem played youth football for four teams including

FC Porto Futebol Clube do Porto, MHIH, OM (), commonly known as FC Porto or simply Porto, is a Portuguese professional sports club based in Porto. It is best known for the professional football team playing in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portu ...

. He spent the vast majority of his senior career also in Portugal, but mostly in the lower leagues. Wesllem's only season in the

Primeira Liga The Primeira Liga (; English: Premier League, also written as Liga Portugal 1), also known as Liga Portugal Bwin for sponsorship reasons, is the top level of the Portuguese football league system. Organised and supervised by the Liga Portugal, ...

was 2009–10, when he represented

Rio Ave FC Rio Ave Futebol Clube, commonly known as Rio Ave (), is a Portuguese professional football club based in Vila do Conde, that competes in the Primeira Liga. The club is named after the Ave River, which flows through the town and into the Atlant ...

. He only totalled 71 minutes of action during the entire campaign, his debut coming on 16 August 2009 in a 1–1 away draw with

U.D. Leiria União Desportiva de Leiria, commonly known as União de Leiria (), is a Portuguese football club based in Leiria, central Portugal. Founded on 6 June 1966, it currently plays in the Campeonato de Portugal, holding home matches at Estádio Dr. M ...

. In the summer of 2012, after a further two years in the second level, Wesllem moved to the

Cypriot Second Division The Cypriot Second Division ( el, Πρωτάθλημα Β΄ Κατηγορίας) is the second highest football division of the Cypriot football league system. Administrated by the Cyprus Football Association, it is contested by 16 teams, with th ...

with

. On 12 August 2013 he signed with another side in the country,

AEK Kouklia FC AE Kouklion ( el, Αθλητική Ένωση Κουκλιων) was a football team based in Kouklia of Paphos District. It was founded on 20 October 1968 and was dissolved on 9 June 2014, in order to be merged with AEP Paphos and create a new ...

. He made his first appearance in the First Division – as the club – against

AEK Larnaca FC AEK Larnaca FC ( el, AEK; for short Αθλητική Έvωση Κίτιον Λάρνακας , translit=''Athletiki Enosi Kition Larnakas'', "Athletic Union Kition of Larnaca") is a Cypriot professional football club based in Larnaca. The club ...

on the 31st, playing the full 90 minutes in a 2–1 home win.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Wesllem 1985 births Living people People from Marco de Canaveses Brazilian people of Portuguese descent Brazilian footballers Portuguese footballers Association football forwards Primeira Liga players Liga Portugal 2 players Segunda Divisão players Leixões S.C. players Leça F.C. players Rio Ave F.C. players F.C. Penafiel players Cypriot First Division players Cypriot Second Division players Anagennisi Deryneia FC players AEK Kouklia F.C. players Pafos FC players I liga players Olimpia Grudziądz players Brazilian expatriate footballers Portuguese expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Cyprus Expatriate footballers in Poland Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Poland Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Poland Sportspeople from Porto District