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(Redirected from Leonardo de Oliveira Clemente) Brazilian footballer In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is de Oliveira and the second or paternal family name is Clemente.
Léo Itaperuna
Personal information
Full name Leonardo de Oliveira Clemente
Date of birth (1989-04-12) April 12, 1989 (age 35)
Place of birth Itaperuna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s) Striker
Team information
Current team FC Cascavel
Number 9
Youth career
2006 Fluminense
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2007–2011 Fluminense 10 (1)
2008 → Paulista (loan) 0 (0)
2009 → America-RJ (loan) 0 (0)
2010 → CRAC (loan) 0 (0)
2010 → Duque de Caxias (loan) 4 (0)
2011 → Cabofriense (loan) 10 (2)
2011 Anápolis 0 (0)
2011–2012 Arapongas 24 (10)
2012–2017 Sion 108 (19)
2015 → Suwon Bluewings (loan) 11 (1)
2015 → Jiangxi Liansheng (loan) 13 (2)
2017 Aarau 10 (1)
2018 São Bento 0 (0)
2018 Paraná 11 (0)
2018 Vila Nova 10 (0)
2019 Sertãozinho 0 (0)
2019 Itaboraí 4 (0)
2020 Concórdia 0 (0)
2020– FC Cascavel 37 (12)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 14:20, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

Leonardo de Oliveira Clemente (born April 12, 1989 in Itaperuna, state of Rio de Janeiro), or simply Léo Itaperuna, is a Brazilian striker who plays for FC Cascavel

Career

Club career

Formed in Fluminense, Leo made an immediate impact in Swiss Football after his arrival at Sion, scoring in every friendly game played by his team during the summer preparation.

He was discovered in a small club in the interior of Brazil (Arapongas), seen by media and professionals in Swiss football as: "A strong talented striker, natural finisher." His speed and technique had surprised the football world along with his very strong physical abilities despite his relative small size and undeniable goal scoring skills.

Laurent Fournier, his coach at Sion said of him in an interview: "He's really a refreshing and good surprise for us. Leo have all the kit of the modern perfect striker, he's never short on efforts for the team, fights on every ball, is Lethal on 1 v 1 and despite his short size for a No. 9 (1.73m), he jumps 70cm off the ground. For me, even more important than that in the modern game, he's humble and always starving for work, the key for any talented player to reach success. If he continues this way he will go very far."

His Representative, Rui Alves was quoted lately in an interview saying about: "Leo progressed in a exponential way in the past year. I've have been bluffed by the way he's adapting to Europe and with his progression all this pasts months. I truly believe that the kid will break through really fast in European football if he continues to be focus and committed like this. Switzerland is being the perfect adaptation championship for Leo. You will heard very highly about him very soon without a doubt, if he keeps with this kind of exigences and standards in his game, he's a very very good young man in and out the pitch what makes everything much more easy for him in all senses".

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