Dedé (footballer born 1978)
Dedê at the championship celebration of Borussia Dortmund 2011
Dedê (also Dede, Dede Dede or; civil Leonardo de Deus Santos, born April 18, 1978 in Belo Horizonte ) is a Brazilian- German footballer, who was from 1998 to 2011 with Borussia Dortmund under contract. The left-back completed more than 300 Bundesliga games for Borussia Dortmund and has also boast one match for the Brazilian national football team.
Life and career
Youth
Leonardo de Deus Santos grew up as the second of six brothers, of which Lucas Dedê ( Cacá ) and Leandro also professional football players were later, in a favela in the megacity of Belo Horizonte. Even as a child he was a friend of Lincoln, who now also plays football professionally. Dedê began at the age of four years at the football games. At eight, he played together with his brother Leandro Soares and a trial with Atlético Mineiro. At the same time he earned already with a variety of work with the livelihood of his family. The school he attended for seven years, but had to repeat it three times. Dedê was as a teenager in up to four simultaneously active clubs and so came to countless training sessions per week, and sometimes even to several games in one day.
Professional career
Dedê began his professional career in 1996 at Atletico Mineiro. In 1997 he was the football magazine Placar with a Bola de Prata, a Silver Ball award as the best player at his position in the Brazilian league and appointed to the Olympic team of Brazil.
In July 1998 he became a 20 -year-old to Borussia Dortmund, where he made his debut on 14 August 1998, when he was placed in the starting lineup by coach Michael Skibbe in the game against VfB Stuttgart, but due to an injury as early as the 13. minutes for Vladimir But was replaced again. Dede's brother Leandro stood from 2002 to 2004 also at Borussia Dortmund under contract.
With Dortmund Dedê in 2002 and 2011 German champion and reached the final of the UEFA Cup 2001/2002. He traditionally ran on with the shirt number 17, which he also signed autographs also.
He was the longest-serving player at Borussia Dortmund. Since October 23, 2007 Dedê has German citizenship.
With Borussia Dortmund, he was on 19 April 2008 at the DFB Cup Final in Berlin, which lost the team with 1:2 after extra time against Bayern Munich.
On the first day of the Bundesliga season 2008/ 09 ( 3-2 of Borussia Dortmund in Leverkusen) is Dedê suffered a torn ACL, the worst injury of his long career. On March 7, 2009, he gave the away match in Stuttgart ( 1-2 defeat of Borussia Dortmund ) his comeback.
In March 2011, Borussia Dortmund announced that the end of June 2011 expiring contract would not be renewed with Dedê. Dedê joined the 2011/12 season in Turkey to Eskişehirspor and thus worked after eleven years back together with his former coach Michael Skibbe from Dortmund time. His first competitive match for the club, he completed 10 September 2011 against Besiktas Istanbul. The first goal is scored, he celebrated a 4-0 success in Sivas ( September 2011). He scored the 1-0 in 18 minutes by a direct free kick, transformed.
National
For the Brazilian national football team Dedê has played once in 2004 in a 4-1 win against Hungary.
Achievements
- 2x German champions: 2001 / 02, 2010/11
- 1x Winner of the Copa Conmebol: 1997
- 1x DFB Indoor Cup winners: 1999
- 1x UEFA Cup Runners-up: 2001/ 02
- 1x DFB Cup Runners-up: 2007/ 08
- 1x German Supercup winner: 2008
- 1x DFL League Cup finalists: 2003
Personal
Dedê is called by his Brazilian compatriots " the German " or " the Brazilian Prussian" because he has internalized the German way of life and mentality. This is reflected in a quote in an interview the Ruhr-Nachrichten resist: " Later, I would again live in Brazil and have many children. However, this should make Germany an apprenticeship or studying, so they learn that a 9- clock - Date at 9 clock occurs and not only at 11 or 12 clock clock. "