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Léo Baptistão

レオナルド・カリーリョ・バティスタン　/　れおなるど・かりーりょ・ばてぃすたん

Association football player from Brazil

August 26, 1992 (age 33)　・　Santos, São Paulo, Brazil

São Paulo
association football player

My Take

Léo Baptistão is, for me, a textbook case of Brazilian promise being matured in the furnace of European football. Born in Santos, where the game runs in the soil, he crossed to Spain at sixteen and stitched together 238 La Liga appearances with 43 goals. He never quite became the relentless finisher headlines crave, and honestly that human-scale honesty is what I find appealing. A forward who could also drift to the wing, useful at every club he joined. His survival across more than a decade in tough leagues, rather than any single highlight, is what makes me quietly admire him.

Overview

Leonardo "Leo" Carrilho Baptistão (born 26 August 1992) is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for Segunda División club Almería. Mainly a forward, he can also play as a winger. Baptistão spent most of his career in Spain from the age of 16, making 238 appearances and scoring 43 goals in La Liga.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Léo Baptistão
Name (Japanese): レオナルド・カリーリョ・バティスタン
Reading: れおなるど・かりーりょ・ばてぃすたん
Born: August 26, 1992 (age 33)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Virgo / Monkey
Origin: Santos, São Paulo, Brazil
Blood type: Private
Height: 181 cm
Agency: Private
Occupation: association football player

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Private

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

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