Fernando Abreu

Fernando Abreu
Personal information
Full name	Fernando Augusto de Abreu Ferreira
Date of birth	3 October 1984 (age 39)
Place of birth	São Paulo, Brazil
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s)	Centre back
Youth career
1996	São Bernardo
1996–2001	São Paulo
2001–2002	Porto
2002–2003	Torino
Senior career*
Years	Team
2003–2007	Racing B
2007	Racing Santander
2007–2009	Atlético Madrid B
2009–2010	Olimpija
2010–2011	Olympiakos Nicosia
2011–2012	IFK Mariehamn
2012	Johor F.C.
2013	Ekranas
2014–2015	Chiangrai United
2016	Lampang
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 26 June 2016

Fernando Augusto de Abreu Ferreira (Brazilian Portuguese: [feʁˈnɐ̃du aˈbɾɛw]; born 3 October 1984), known as Abreu, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a central defender.

He also holds Portuguese citizenship.

Football career[edit]

Born in São Paulo, Abreu played youth football for four clubs, two of them abroad and the last being Torino FC. In 2003, aged not yet 19, he moved to Spain and signed for Racing de Santander, being registered with the B-side for the vast majority of his four-year spell; on 17 June 2007, the final day of the season, he played his only La Liga game, which consisted of five minutes in a 0–2 home loss against Real Betis.^[1]

For the 2007–08 campaign, Abreu joined another reserve team in the country and the third division, Atlético Madrid B. In the 2009 summer he signed with NK Olimpija Ljubljana in the Slovenian PrvaLiga, moving in quick succession to Olympiakos Nicosia (Cyprus) and IFK Mariehamn (Finland's Veikkausliiga).

On 7 January 2012, Abreu changed clubs and countries again, reuniting with countryman and former Santander teammate Arthuro at Malaysia's Johor Darul Takzim FC.^[2]^[3]

References[edit]

^ Racing Santander 0–2 Real Betis; ESPN Soccernet, 17 June 2007
^ Johor on samba path Archived 15 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine; New Straits Times, 8 February 2012
^ Johor FC fail to sign Becamengo due to travel document problems Archived 9 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine; The Star, 8 February 2012

External links[edit]

Fernando Abreu at BDFutbol
Stats at PrvaLiga (in Slovene)
Fernando Abreu at Soccerway

[1] Racing Santander 0–2 Real Betis; ESPN Soccernet, 17 June 2007

[2] Johor on samba path Archived 15 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine; New Straits Times, 8 February 2012

[3] Johor FC fail to sign Becamengo due to travel document problems Archived 9 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine; The Star, 8 February 2012

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