Diogo Santos
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Diogo de Almeida Santos[1] | ||
Date of birth | [1] | 13 November 1984||
Place of birth | Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal[1] | ||
Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)[1] | ||
Position(s) | Defensive midfielder | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Retired | ||
Youth career | |||
1995–2003 | Oliveirense | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2003–2008 | Oliveirense | 143 | (11) |
2008–2009 | Gil Vicente | 8 | (0) |
2010–2012 | Arouca | 53 | (5) |
2012–2013 | Oliveirense | 45 | (4) |
2013–2015 | Brașov | 25 | (0) |
2015–2016 | Famalicão | 37 | (1) |
2016–2019 | Santa Clara | 66 | (6) |
2019–2021 | Académico Viseu | 46 | (5) |
2021–2022 | Felgueiras 1932 | 19 | (3) |
2022-2023 | A.D. Castro Daire | 25 | (1) |
Total | 466 | (35) | |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 18:36, 31 August 2024 (UTC) |
Diogo de Almeida Santos (born 13 November 1984) is a retired Portuguese professional footballer who played most successfully for U.D. Oliveirense, F.C. Arouca, F.C. Famalicão, C.D. Santa Clara, and A.C. Viseu, as a defensive midfielder. He retired at the end of the 2023 season at the age of 39.
Club career
[edit]Born in Vila Franca de Xira, Lisbon District, Santos started his senior career with U.D. Oliveirense, spending his first five seasons in the third division and scoring a career-best five goals in his last. In the 2008 off-season he signed with Gil Vicente F.C. of the Segunda Liga, making his debut in the competition on 24 August in a 1–1 away draw against his former club.[2]
Santos returned to the third tier in January 2010, joining Arouca and helping to promotion in his first year. In 2011–12 he contributed ten appearances and one goal[3] during the first half of the campaign, but finished it with Oliveirense.
On 19 June 2013, Santos moved abroad after agreeing to a two-year contract at SR Brașov in the Romanian Liga I.[4] After featuring sparingly during his spell, he returned to Portugal and its division two by signing a one-year deal with F.C. Famalicão.[5]
Santos joined C.D. Santa Clara in June 2016, reuniting with manager Daniel Ramos in the process.[6] In 2017–18, he scored three times from 26 appearances as the club returned to the Primeira Liga after a 15-year absence.
Santos played his first match in the Portuguese top flight on 12 August 2018 at the age of 33 years and nine months, coming on as a late substitute in a 1–0 away loss to C.S. Marítimo.[7] In the following transfer window, he returned to the second division with Académico Viseu FC.[8][9]
On 27 July 2021, Santos moved to F.C. Felgueiras 1932.[10]
Personal life
[edit]In June 2022, Portugal's Supreme Court of Justice allowed Santos to proceed in a lawsuit against American video game company Electronic Arts for the alleged unauthorised use of his name and image in their FIFA series. Citing Lionel Messi's US$50 million deal with the company, he requested at least €53,900.[11] Italy's La Gazzetta dello Sport wrote that he was the first footballer to take EA to court, although Zlatan Ibrahimović and Gareth Bale's case against the company had been dismissed; the newspaper also stated that the use of all footballers' images was legitimate due to a deal with the FIFPro trade union.[12]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Diogo" (in Portuguese). Mais Futebol. Retrieved 29 August 2021.
- ^ "Oliveirense-Gil Vicente, 1–1: Equipa da casa empata dos [sic] descontos" [Oliveirense-Gil Vicente, 1–1: Home team draw in injury time]. Record (in Portuguese). 24 August 2008. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
- ^ "Oliveirense-Arouca-Oliveirense, 3–3: Empate em jogo louco" [Arouca-Oliveirense, 3–3: Draw in crazy match]. Record (in Portuguese). 11 December 2011. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
- ^ "FC Braşov îşi anunţă candidatura la un loc fruntaş în Liga 1 » Primele două transferuri" [FC Braşov announce candidacy to lead role in League 1 » The first two transfers]. Gazeta Sporturilor (in Romanian). 19 June 2013. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
- ^ "Diogo Santos é o terceiro reforço" [Diogo Santos is the third addition]. Record (in Portuguese). 24 June 2015. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
- ^ "Diogo Santos garantido" [Diogo Santos confirmed]. Record (in Portuguese). 10 June 2016. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
- ^ Caires, Raul (12 August 2018). "Marítimo-Santa Clara, 1–0 (crónica)" [Marítimo-Santa Clara, 1–0 (match report)] (in Portuguese). Mais Futebol. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
- ^ "Académico de Viseu recebe quarto reforço de inverno" [Académico de Viseu get fourth winter addition]. O Jogo (in Portuguese). 31 January 2019. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
- ^ "Diogo Santos deixa Santa Clara e é 'reforço de inverno' do Académico de Viseu" [Diogo Santos leaves Santa Clara and is an Académico de Viseu 'winter addition']. Diário de Notícias (in Portuguese). 31 January 2019. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
- ^ "Diogo Santos (ex-Ac. Viseu) reforça Felgueiras". Semanário de Felgueiras (in Portuguese). 27 July 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
- ^ "Futebolista português exige indemnização por uso "abusivo" da imagem nos videojogos FIFA" [Portuguese footballer demands compensation for "abusive" use of his image in FIFA video games]. Record (in Portuguese). 23 June 2022. Retrieved 24 June 2022.
- ^ Sirio, Paolo (24 June 2022). "Diogo Santos contro EA: è il primo calciatore che fa causa a FIFA" [Diogo Santos against EA: he is the first footballer to take FIFA to court]. La Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian). Retrieved 24 June 2022.
External links
[edit]- Diogo Santos at ForaDeJogo (archived)
- Diogo Santos at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
- Diogo Santos at Soccerway
- 1984 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Vila Franca de Xira
- Portuguese men's footballers
- Men's association football midfielders
- Primeira Liga players
- Liga Portugal 2 players
- Segunda Divisão players
- U.D. Oliveirense players
- Gil Vicente F.C. players
- F.C. Arouca players
- F.C. Famalicão players
- C.D. Santa Clara players
- Académico de Viseu F.C. players
- F.C. Felgueiras (2006) players
- Liga I players
- Liga II players
- FC Brașov (1936) players
- Portuguese expatriate men's footballers
- Expatriate men's footballers in Romania
- Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Romania
- 21st-century Portuguese sportsmen