{"id":573100,"date":"2020-04-02T13:22:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T10:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paokfc.gr\/uncategorized-en\/20200402-xronia-polla-leo\/"},"modified":"2020-04-03T11:34:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T08:34:14","slug":"20200402-xronia-polla-leo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paokfc.gr\/en\/news\/20200402-xronia-polla-leo\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Leo!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Leo Matos<\/strong> was born in <strong>Rio de Janeiro<\/strong> on 02.04.1986 and he grew up in the neighborhood of <strong>Sao Goncalo.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He started playing football at the age of eight in the youth academy of <strong>Flamengo<\/strong> and represented <strong>Brazil <\/strong>at <strong>Under-17 <\/strong>level, winning the <strong>World Championship<\/strong>. His impressive performances attracted the attention of <strong>Marseille, <\/strong>who signed him in January 2003.<\/p>\n<p>The 17-year-old Brazilian did not seem to hit it off with the French club initially, however, and he returned to <strong>Flamengo <\/strong>just one-and-a-half years later, where he took his first steps as a full professional. After that he went back to try again at <strong>Marseille, <\/strong>and this time got some pitch time in matches. But again he did not settle and returned to Brazil once more.<\/p>\n<p>Between 2007 and 2010, hHe represented <strong>Tombense, Parana, Figueirense and Vila\u00a0 Nova, <\/strong>before once more trying his luck in Europe &#8211; this time switching to <strong>Chornomorets Odesa <\/strong>in February 2010, where he soon became one of the leading players at both his club and in the Ukrainian championship.<\/p>\n<p>Even though his natural position is at right-back, in the Ukraine <strong>Matos<\/strong> mainly played on the right wing at <strong>Chornomorets, <\/strong>demonstrating that he could operate just as well there. In the summer of 2014 he signed for <strong>Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, <\/strong>and it was there he converted himself from a right-sided wingback to a left wingback with great success. He was part of the team that reached the <strong>Europa League<\/strong> final in the 2014-15 season when they were narrowly beaten 3-2 by <strong>Sevilla<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>From the summer of <strong>2016<\/strong> he has been at <strong>PAOK<\/strong> and established himself as one of the club&#8217;s top performers and one of the best right backs in the Greek league.<\/p>\n<p>He has made 157 appearances in the black and white shirt of PAOK, scoring 26 goals and contributing 17 assists.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Birthday <strong>El Loco<\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our defender Leo Matos turns 34 today, and PAOK FC would like to wish him many years of health, happiness and successes on both a personal and professional level.","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":573077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1520,5],"tags":[2378,2457,2534,3766,8045],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.5.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Happy Birthday Leo! 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