Antonio Ferreira de Oliveira Junior (born October 24, 1984), often known as Ferreira, is a
football defender from
Brazil
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who plays for
São Bernardo.
Career
Ferreira began his career at Rio de Janeiro club,
Profute Futebol Clube in Brazil. In 2004, he moved to Latvia to play for
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where he scored seven goals in 46 appearances. He scored four goals in the
2006 season as the club finished in 6th place.
[
] On 6 April 2007 he signed for
Virslīga
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champions Liepājas Metalurgs. On 19 July he scored for Metalurgs in their 1–1 home draw against
FC Dinamo Brest
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from
Belarus
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in the
UEFA Cup
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[
]
On 4 January 2010, Ferreira signed a three-year contract with
FC Terek Grozny
Republican Football Club Akhmat ( ce, футболан клуб Ахмат Соьлжа-ГӀала; russian: Республиканский футбольный клуб Ахмат Грозный), commonly known as Akhmat Grozny, is a Russian ...
. Antonio left Terek Grozny five years later on 31 December 2014, when his contract with the club expired.
In July 2015, Ferreira signed for
Kazakhstan Premier League
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side
FC Irtysh Pavlodar
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.
In 2016, during a 2-0 loss against Boa Esporte Clube when he was playing for Guarani, Ferreira pushed the referee to the ground after he was sent off and some of his teammates wanted to calm him down. Ferreira pushed one of his teammates and then after the linesman guarded the referee, he still wanted to hurt the referee but later was removed from the pitch.
Career statistics
Honours
Club
;Liepājas Metalurgs
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Baltic League
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2007
References
External links
Antonio at soccerfactsuk
1984 births
Living people
Brazilian footballers
Brazilian expatriate footballers
Footballers from Rio de Janeiro (city)
FK Liepājas Metalurgs players
Expatriate footballers in Latvia
PFC Spartak Nalchik players
Expatriate footballers in Russia
Russian Premier League players
FC Akhmat Grozny players
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Latvia
Association football defenders
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