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Gleison Santos played for which team in Aug 2003?
Gleison Santos Gleison Pinto dos Santos known as Santos ( born 18 August 1981 ) is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a defender . Career . Comercial ( RP ) . Santos started his career at Comercial de Ribeirão Preto of Campeonato Paulista Série A2 . Atalanta . In July 2002 , Santos joined Atalanta of Serie A on loan . He was the unused member of the team , and later signed permanent deal in summer 2003 . He made 6 appearances for Atalanta , but this time at Serie B . Santos made his league debut on 18 January 2004 , winning Salernitana 3–1 as starting defender . Monza . He then was loaned to Monza , of Serie C2 . Santos made 10 appearances , and one more at promotion play-offs . He earned a new contract that Monza bought half of the rights from Atalanta in 2005 . He played 36 appearances in 2005–06 Serie C1 , and 4 more on promotion play-offs . On 20 June 2006 , Monza finally got the full ownership of Santos , but then sold Santos half of the registration rights to U.C . AlbinoLeffe on 31 August 2006 . AlbinoLeffe . Santos joined AlbinoLeffe on 31 August 2006 for €280,000 in co-ownership deal in 3-year contract . Santos chose no.3 shirt for the first team . He played 28 matches in 2006–07 Serie B , including 27 starts . He was replaced by Mario Donadoni in the 5th minute of the round 13 match . Due to the injury , he missed 3 rounds . Santos missed the last 6 rounds of the league due to injury . He also missed round 5 to 7 , the match before the winter break ( round 18 , on 22 December ) and round 23 ( suspension for 4th caution ) . Santos played his only substitute appearance in round 24 , replacing Duccio Innocenti . In June 2007 , Monza agreed to sell remain half to AlbinoLeffe for another €360,000 , but in August 2007 , Genoa bought half of the rights from AlbinoLeffe . Genoa . Genoa signed Santos for €900,000 in co-ownership deal in August 2007 ; AlbinoLeffe also re-signed Filippo Carobbio from Genoa in June for €200,000 , thus Santos deal only involved €700,000 cash . Santos picked no.33 shirt . However , after a season he was sold to Reggina . Santos only made 11 starts in 2007–08 Serie A , as the team had centre-backs likes Cesare Bovo and Alessandro Lucarelli in its 3–4–3 or 4–3–3 formation . Santos had to compete with Francesco Bega ( left in January ) and Gaetano De Rosa for the third place of the centre-back , which the coach even used Abdoulay Konko in the 3-men defense . Santos himself also missed two months ( October to November ) due to injury . Which he was injured in a friendly on 17 October and had an operation . Santos received his first call-up since injury on 10 November , but wait until 2 December to return to the bench . Santos made his Serie A debut on 26 August 2006 , losing to A.C . Milan 0–3 . He returned to starting XI on 16 December ( round 16 ) , partnering Bovo in 4–4–2 formation . The coach rested Lucarelli and did not put Bega into the bench ( who suspended in round 15 ) . Santos also played the next match ( round 17 ) , as Bovo was suspended . He formed the 3-men defense with Andrea Masiello and De Rosa , winning Parma 1–0 . However , from round 14 to 38 ( 25 in total ) Santos only started 10 times , and the coach later even used 4-men defense with Domenico Criscito as emergency centre-back instead of using neither Santos nor De Rosa . Reggina . In July 2008 Santos signed with Reggina for €1 million from Genoa , made Santos was co-contracted between Genoa and Reggina . Genoa paid AlbinoLeffe €250,000 cash and Francesco Renzetti who tagged for €750,000 in order to acquire the 50% registration rights of Santos , but Renzetti was in fact acquired from Lucchese for €600,000 only , made Genoa instantly had a €150,000 profit . Reggina did not need to pay Genoa cash in the deal however , as Genoa also acquired Giandomenico Mesto ( 50% for €3.5 million ) and Francesco Modesto ( €5 million ) from Reggina . Santos wore no.33 shirt in 2008–09 Serie A and in 2009–10 Serie B . Santos injured his achilles tendon in May 2009 . In June 2009 Genoa re-acquired Renzetti for €250,000 and the remain 50% rights of Mesto for €3 million , while Santos deal was renewed . The deal made AlbinoLeffe received €500,000 cash in total for Santos ; as Santos 50% rights actually worth €500,000 cash ( instead of €1M ) , Reggina made a €500,000 discount for Mesto , but de facto unchanged . ( from €2.5M cash + Santos to €3M cash ) Santos played his last official game for Reggina on 20 February 2010 , the second match of new coach Roberto Breda . Despite constantly received call-up from Breda , Santos only able to appear once more as unused bench in round 39 . He also trained separately at the end of season . In June 2010 Genoa gave up the remain 50% registration rights to Reggina . Santos was re-affirmed to the squad . Santos played in pre-season friendlies in July under new coach Gianluca Atzori . However at the start of 2010–11 Serie B Santos no.33 was taken by Vincenzo Camilleri ( Camilleri himself had lost his no.5 shirt to Burzigotti ) and Santos changed to wear no.34 . He soon transferred to Greece . Greece . On 7 August 2010 Santos was signed by Skoda Xanthi FC . In May 2013 he was on trial with Toronto FC . External links . - Football.it Profile