Freddy dos Santos
Personal information
Full name Freddy dos Santos
Date of birth (1976-10-02) 2 October 1976 (age 47)
Place of birth Oslo, Norway
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[1]
Position(s) Defender, midfielder
Youth career
Skeid
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1994–1997 Skeid[2] 50 (3)
1998–2000 Molde[2] 64 (0)
2001–2011 Vålerenga[2] 246 (38)
International career
1993 Norway G16[3] 2 (0)
1994 Norway G17[3] 6 (1)
1995 Norway G18[3] 9 (2)
1996–1997 Norway U21[3] 8 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 13:54, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Freddy dos Santos (born 2 October 1976) is a Norwegian former footballer who played most of his career for Vålerenga in the Norwegian Premier League.[1]

Dos Santos has played as a defender, midfield and forward. His former clubs are Skeid and Molde.[2]

Club career

Skeid

He started his career at Skeid. During the last two seasons with them he played in the Norwegian top division.

Molde

In 1998 season, he moved to Molde after Skeid got relegated from the top flight. In his first two seasons he helped them in achieving a back-to-back silver medal in the league, also playing in the group stages of the 1999–2000 Champions League.

Vålerenga

He moved back to Oslo in 2001 and joined Vålerenga, who had just been relegated from the Norwegian Premier League. He helped them secure direct promotion. He started in both finals in which Vålerenga won the Norwegian Football Cup, in 2002 and 2008. In 2005, he won the Norwegian Premier League with Vålerenga.

He has played over 300 games for Vålerenga, more than any other player in the history of the club.

International career

He has played several games at various youth levels for Norway, but never played in the senior side. He could potentially feature for Cape Verde as his father is born there.

Personal life

Cape Verde is his father's country of origin.[4]

In July 2006, dos Santos launched a single, This Is For Real, together with four other professional Norwegian footballers – Morten Gamst Pedersen, Raymond Kvisvik, Kristofer Hæstad and Øyvind Svenning. They called their band The Players.[5]

In 2012, dos Santos was announced as the host of the Norwegian version of The Amazing Race.

Club statistics

Correct as of match played 31 October 2010

Club performance League Cup Continental Total
Season Club League Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Norway League Norwegian Cup Europe Total
1994 Skeid 1. divisjon ? ? ? ? 0 0 ? ?
1995 ? ? ? ? 0 0 ? ?
1996 Tippeligaen ? ? ? ? 0 0 ? ?
1997 ? ? ? ? 0 0 ? ?
1998 Molde 22 0 2 0 2 0 26 0
1999 20 0 3 0 9 0 32 0
2000 21 0 2 0 2 0 25 0
2001 Vålerenga 1. divisjon 22 7 1 0 0 0 23 7
2002 Tippeligaen 21 3 6 3 0 0 27 6
2003 27 10 2 0 6 0 35 10
2004 26 8 3 3 0 0 29 11
2005 20 1 5 1 4 1 29 3
2006 26 4 3 4 2 0 31 8
2007 25 0 3 1 4 2 32 3
2008 23 1 7 1 0 0 30 2
2009 9 1 2 0 0 0 11 1
2010 24 2 1 1 0 0 25 3
2011 23 1 0 0 0 0 23 1
Total Norway ? ? ? ? 29 3 ? ?

Honours

Vålerenga

References

  1. ^ a b "Freddy dos Santos". Norsk & Internasjonal Fotballstatistikk (in Norwegian). NTB. Retrieved 6 May 2009.
  2. ^ a b c d "Freddy dos Santos" (in Norwegian). Fotball.aftenposten.no. Archived from the original on 13 February 2012. Retrieved 6 May 2009.
  3. ^ a b c d "Freddy dos Santos" (in Norwegian). Norges Fotballforbund. Archived from the original on 17 July 2004. Retrieved 6 May 2009.
  4. ^ Aftenposten 27 November 2011 p. 48
  5. ^ Helle Skjervold (9 July 2006). "Nervøse fotballboys" (in Norwegian). Aftenposten. Archived from the original on 25 July 2009. Retrieved 6 May 2009.
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