Leandro Guerreiro

Leandro Luchese Guerreiro is a professional football player from Brazil who plays as a midfielder. Leandro began playing at the youth academy at Sao Luiz, in 1997-98, before breaking into the professional game. However, unlike most players who break into the same team’s first team squad as where they played their youth football, Leandro made his breakthrough at Internacional. Quickly becoming a regular first team player for Internacional, Leandro notched up 50 appearances between 1999 and 2001 before moving to Guarani Futebol Clube.

He spent two seasons at Guarani, playing regularly in the first team and playing over 45 games for the club. He even scored his first goal at the professional level and, in 2003, moved to Italy to play for Salernitana. Failing to cope with the Italian game, Leandro only managed to notch up 14 appearances, most of them coming as a substitute, before moving onto Napoli in 2004-05. After just three games for the team, Leandro returned to Brazil and joined Ponte Preta but before he could play a game for the club, he moved back to Italy, on loan, and signed up with Pescara.

After 12 games for his loan side, Leandro returned to Brazil in 2006 and signed up with Criciuma, helping the team win the 2006 Serie C title. He moved to Botafogo in 2007, and over the next four seasons, won three Taca Rio titles in 2007, 2008 and 2010 along with two Taca Guanabara titles in 2009 and 2010 as well as the Campeao Carioca in 2010.

In 2011, after 96 games and 4 goals for Botafogo, this defensive midfielder moved to Cruzeiro where he is looking to find a way into the starting line-up.