Diego Souza (footballer, born 1985)

Diego Souza
Diego with Metalist Kharkiv in 2013
Personal information
Full name Diego de Souza Andrade
Date of birth (1985-06-17) 17 June 1985
Place of birth Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position Attacking midfielder / Forward[1][2]
Club information
Current team
 São Paulo
Number 9
Youth career
2002–2003 Fluminense
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2003–2005 Fluminense 40 (3)
2005–2007 Benfica 0 (0)
2005–2006 → Flamengo (loan) 23 (5)
2007 → Grêmio (loan) 33 (8)
2008–2010 Palmeiras 67 (14)
2010–2011 Atlético Mineiro 28 (5)
2011–2012 Vasco da Gama 22 (9)
2012 Al-Ittihad 4 (1)
2013 Cruzeiro 6 (1)
2013–2015 Metalist Kharkiv 18 (1)
2014–2015 → Sport Recife (loan) 53 (13)
2016 Fluminense 0 (0)
2016–2017 Sport Recife 61 (25)
2018– São Paulo 8 (4)
National team‡
Brazil U-17
2005 Brazil U-20 2 (0)
2009– Brazil 7 (2)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 11 June 2018
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 7 January 2018

Son of the goalkeeper Cássio Ramos, Diego de Souza Andrade (born 17 June 1985), or simply Diego Souza, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for São Paulo FC as an attacking midfielder or forward.

Career

Fluminense

Diego Souza began playing club football for Fluminense in the Brazilian League where he quickly impressed and earned a move to Europe.

Benfica and loans

Benfica signed him from Fluminense and loaned to Flamengo.[3] He returned to Benfica in 2006–07 Primeira Liga but only appeared on 19 September 2006 as unused bench. In 2007, he went on loan to Grêmio.[4] He was influential at Grêmio scoring a handful of goals most notably a set-piece against Santos FC as they made the Copa Libertadores final losing out to Boca Juniors.[5]

Palmeiras

In 2008, he moved to Palmeiras (and partner) for €3.75M total fee.[6] He signed a contract until December 2011.[7] Co-currently, along with Lenny, Fluminense transferred its shares on both players' economic rights to Desportivo Brasil (owned by Traffic Group) as part of the deal, made Fluminense gained a profit of R$ 1,320 thousand and R$1,500 thousand respectively.[8] Both players were signed by Palmeiras as part of R$40 million partnership with Traffic, which Palmeiras only owned 10~20% of the rights of Diego.[9]

On 18 April 2009, he received a red card after an argument with Domingos during the state semi finals match against Santos. He later took Domingos down after coming back to the field.

On 29 November 2009, he scored a magnificent goal against Atlético Mineiro from the mid-field area. At the same year in the Série A, Diego Souza helped Palmeiras lead until the end, but lost the title in the last rounds of the tournament.

Atlético Mineiro

On 30 June 2010, Clube Atlético Mineiro's president Alexandre Kalil announced that Diego Souza had signed a contract.[10] After the transaction, Mineiro owned 70% and 30% owned by Traffic, and costed Atlético Mineiro a reported R$6.6 million (2.2M€).[11]

Vasco

The Atlético Mineiro number 10 was sold to Vasco for about $1.2 million.(0.9M€) On 20 March, Diego Souza made his debut for the team in the match against a local rival Botafogo. He is remembered scoring the first goal in the 2x0 victory. On 8 June 2011 Diego Souza became a winner of the Brazilian Cup with Vasco da Gama, having his best performance in the Brazil Cup in the game Avai Vasco 0x2 in the semi-final of this competition. Soon after winning the Cup of Brazil, Diego Souza was placed on the bench due to poor performances. Nevertheless, he returned to the starting line-up and did a great performance against Atlético Mineiro, scoring two goals in the away 2x1 victory. In the 24th round of the Brasileirão 2011 has an excellent performance against Gremio (4x0) scoring onr of the goals. He finished with Vasco as a runner-up of the Brasileirão.

Al Ittihad

On 10 July 2012, he was signed by Saudi Professional League club Al-Ittihad Jeddah on a 3-year contract.[12] On 6 August, he started an impressive game. His first shot ever was in the crossbar, he assisted 3 goals and one of them was an own goal. He helped to a 3–0 victory against Al-Ettifaq.

Metalist Kharkiv

In July 2013, Diego Souza moved to Metalist Kharkiv in Ukraine. For his transfer Metalist paid four million €.[13] In January 2014, Diego wanted to return to Brazil to escape the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine.[14] A loan deal with Sport Club do Recife was set in September 2014.[15]

São Paulo

After a successful spell playing for Sport Recife, Souza signed, on January 7, 2018, with São Paulo, for R$10 million.[16] On January 24, 2018, he netted for the first time wearing Tricolor kit: the goal that opened the victory against Mirassol by 2-0, in a game valid for São Paulo State League.[17][18]

National team

Diego was part of the Brazil U-23 side. Diego was in the winning squad of Brazil U-17 at the 2001 South American Under 17 Football Championship in Peru. He played twice in 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship.

Diego Souza was called to play for Brazil national football team, in a game against Chile. He made his debut against the Bolivia national football team on 11 October 2009.

Souza scored his first international goal after eleven seconds, before scoring another in injury-time in a 4-0 win over Australia in a June 2017 friendly.[19]

Career statistics

As of 14 December 2017.[20]
Club Season League Cup Continental Total
AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Fluminense 2003 70100080
2004 2933100324
2005 40100050
Total 4034100454
Flamengo 2005 2253100256
2006 10700080
Total 23510100336
Benfica 2006–07 00000000
Total 00000000
Grêmio 2007 338--1124410
Total 338--1124410
Palmeiras 2008 3364131408
2009 348--944312
2010 00710071
Total 67141121259021
Atlético Mineiro 2010 2850040325
Total 2850000325
Vasco da Gama 2011 22993113213
Total 22993113213
Al Ittihad 2012–13 41001152
Total 41001152
Cruzeiro 2013 6142--103
Total 6142--103
Metalist Kharkiv 2013–14 1811020211
Total 1811020211
Sport Recife 2014 194--10204
2015 34922303911
2016 341464104118
2017 2711229615521
Total 11438301511115554
São Paulo 2018 00000000
Total 00000000
Career total 32170421232941176

International

International goals

Scores and results list Brazil's goal tally first.[21]
#DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.13 June 2017Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, Australia Australia
1–0
4–0
Friendly
2.
4–0

Honours

Club

Fluminense
Flamengo
Grêmio
Palmeiras
Vasco da Gama
Sport

International

Individual

References

  1. ↑ Vickery, Tim. "Tite's Seleção entitled to dream of glory in Russia". The World Game. Special Broadcasting Service. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
  2. ↑ Diego Souza Football Statistics, WhoScored.com
  3. ↑ "Diego é para fazer a pré-época no Benfica". MaisFutebol.com. 22 May 2006.
  4. ↑ "Benfica: Grémio anuncia contratação do médio Diego Souza". MaisFutebol.com. 26 December 2006.
  5. ↑ "Grêmio perde para o Santos, mas decide Libertadores". Terra.com.br. 6 June 2007. Retrieved 13 September 2014.
  6. ↑ Palmeiras anuncia Diego Souza. (in Portuguese). Globo Esporte. 12 January 2008. Retrieved 10 February 2010.
  7. ↑ "Diego Souza acerta com o Palmeiras". Palmeiras (in Portuguese). 11 January 2008. Archived from the original on 15 January 2008. Retrieved 23 April 2011.
  8. ↑ "Balanço Patrimonial de 2008". Fluminense FC (in Portuguese). Retrieved 23 April 2011.
  9. ↑ Costa, Juliano (7 January 2008). "Palmeiras acerta a contratação do meia Diego Souza". Jornal da Tarde. Archived from the original on 25 September 2012. Retrieved 23 April 2011.
  10. ↑ Alexandre Kalil anuncia a contratação de Diego Souza pelo Atlético-MG. (in Portuguese). Globo Esporte. 30 June 2010. Retrieved 30 June 2010.
  11. ↑ "Vasco quer Diego Souza, mas Atlético-MG pede muito alto". Terra Brasil (in Portuguese). 20 February 2011. Retrieved 23 April 2011.
  12. ↑ "Diego Souza é o novo reforço do Vasco". CR Vasco da Gama (in Portuguese). 2 March 2011. Archived from the original on 30 September 2011.
  13. ↑ "Cruzeiro's Diego Souza set to join Metalist". Sambafoot. 13 July 2013.
  14. ↑ "Diego Souza revela que vai voltar ao Vasco e não pensa em Seleção". estadiovip.com. 10 January 2014.
  15. ↑ "Sport deve esvaziar departamento médico nesta segunda e Diego Souza fica perto da volta". superesportes.com.br. 12 September 2014.
  16. ↑ São Paulo oficializa contratação de Diego Souza por duas temporadas
  17. ↑
  18. ↑ 'Mesmo quem está fora, tem alegria', diz Diego Souza no São Paulo
  19. ↑ https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/australia-vs-brazil-live-score-10613921
  20. ↑ Futpédia (in Portuguese). Globoesporte.com. Retrieved April 2011.
  21. ↑ "Souza, Diego". National Football Teams. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
  22. ↑ "Hexacampeão, São Paulo domina também o Prêmio Craque Brasileirão" (in Portuguese). Globo Esporte. 8 December 2008. Retrieved 21 June 2009.
  23. 1 2 "Hexacampeão, Flamengo recebe troféu de campeão nacional" (in Portuguese). Globo Esporte. 8 December 2009. Retrieved 9 December 2009.
  24. ↑ "Os eleitos do Prêmio Craque do Brasileirão!" (in Portuguese). Lance!. December 6, 2011. Retrieved December 24, 2011.
  25. ↑ "Artilharia - Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol - Série A 2016" (in Portuguese). Confederação Brasileira de Futebol (CBF). 4 April 2017. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
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