Fábio Santos (footballer, born 1980)

Fábio Santos
Personal information
Full name Fábio dos Santos Barbosa
Date of birth (1980-10-09) 9 October 1980
Place of birth Campina Grande, Brazil
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position Defensive midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1999–2000 Santo André 6 (0)
2001 Rio Branco (SP)
2001 Náutico
2002–2004 São Caetano 57 (0)
2004 Nacional da Madeira 6 (0)
2005–2006 Cruzeiro 33 (0)
2007–2009 Lyon 22 (1)
2008 → São Paulo (loan) 3 (0)
2009 Fluminense 1 (0)
2010 Cruzeiro 1 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Fábio dos Santos Barbosa (born 9 October 1980) is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.

Career

Born in Campina Grande, Paraíba, Fábio Santos started his career at Sao Paulo state.

Fábio Santos was signed by Lyon in January 2007 from Cruzeiro.[1]

He was loaned to São Paulo in January 2008 until July 2008. After being released by Lyon, he signed a 2+1⁄2-year contract with Fluminense in May 2009, rejoining Fred.[2] On 26 April 2010 Cruzeiro signed the midfielder, the player coming from Fluminense and signed until 31 December 2010.

After the match against São Paulo on 13 May 2010, Fábio Santos told the press that the match was his last as a player due to successive pains to his knee, which suffered four surgeries during his career, and he claimed he wasn't fully recovered from his last injury.

Career statistics

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup[a] League cup[b] Continental Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Santo André 1999 Paulista Série A2 –––
2000 Copa João Havelange –––
Total 000000
Rio Branco (SP) 2001 Série C –––
Náutico 2001 Série B ––
São Caetano 2002 Série A ––00
2003 –10
2004 ––80
Total 0090
Nacional 2004–05 Primeira Liga 60–20
Cruzeiro 2005 Série A –10
2006 –10
Total 0020
Lyon 2006–07[3] Ligue 1 8000000080
2007–08[3] 81001031122
2008–09[3] 6020100090
Total 221202031292
São Paulo (loan) 2008 Série A30––70
Fluminense 2009 Série A 00––0000
Career total 20231

Honours

References

  1. ↑ "Lyon snare Fábio Santos talent". UEFA. 29 January 2007. Archived from the original on 3 February 2007. Retrieved 9 January 2008.
  2. ↑ "Fábio Santos se apresenta e fala em atitude" (in Portuguese). fluminense.com.br. 23 May 2009. Archived from the original on 27 May 2009. Retrieved 7 June 2009.
  3. 1 2 3 "Fábio Santos » Statistics: Club Matches". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 19 March 2026.
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