Diogo Rangel

Diogo Santos Rangel (born 19 August 1991) is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a defender for Série D club Toledo. Although he played for the Timor-Leste national team, he was later found ineligible by the Asian Football Confederation.

Diogo Rangel
Personal information
Full name Diogo Santos Rangel[1]
Date of birth (1991-08-19) 19 August 1991
Place of birth São Paulo, Brazil
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Defender
Team information
Current team
 Toledo
Youth career
2004–2007 Clube Pequeninos do Jockey
2007–2010 Portuguesa
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2010 Vasco da Gama 0 (0)
2011 Palmeiras 0 (0)
2012 Karketu Dili ? (?)
2012–2013 Sriwijaya 12 (1)
2013 → Gresik United (loan) 16 (1)
2014 Daejeon Citizen 12 (0)
2014 Gangwon FC 11 (0)
2015 Osotspa 14 (1)
2015 Bragantino 0 (0)
2016 Songkhla United 32 (1)
2017 Botafogo-PB 0 (0)
2017 São Caetano 0 (0)
2018 Anapolina 0 (0)
2018 Boavista Timor Leste 0 (0)
2018–2019 Zaria Bălți 9 (0)
2019 Sampaio Corrêa 3 (0)
2019–2020 Lee Man 3 (1)
2021– Toledo 3 (0)
International career‡
2012 Timor-Leste U-21 4 (1)
2011–2014 Timor-Leste U-23 11 (2)
2012–2016 Timor-Leste 17 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21 March 2021
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 7 June 2016

Club careers

Dili United

After he defended the Timor Leste U-23 in the arena Southeast Asian Games he joined a local club in Dili, Timor Leste, namely Dili United.

Sriwijaya Football Club

After undergoing selection for two weeks with Sriwijaya, Diogo got a contract offer from the club's management. On 8 November 2012 Diogo agreed to sign a three-year contract with Sriwijaya.[2] He scored his first goal for Sriwijaya against Persisam Putra Samarinda, but his goal could not help his team from losing 2–4.

Gresik United

In May 2013 Diogo loaned to Gresik United from the Sriwijaya for 5-month until the end of season.

Daejeon Citizen

In March 2014 Diogo join Daejeon Citizen.[3]

Lee Man

On 19 July 2019, Diogo signed for Hong Kong Premier League club Lee Man.[4] On 21 January 2020, his contract was terminated.[5]

International career

Despite having no links with East Timor, Diogo had been naturalised and played for the country at three different levels between 2011 and 2016.

He began his international career as a Timor Leste U-23 that in preparing for the Southeast Asian Games in November 2011. Diogo made his debut as a national team U-23 as warm-up match against Indonesia U-23 on 25 October 2011, which ended in defeat 0–5.[6] After that he played in 5 games and scored 1 goal in the event the Southeast Asian Games. In February 2012 he summons national team U-21 to compete in the arena 2012 Hassanal Bolkiah Trophy, in the event he scored 1 goal in 4 games. In July 2012 was recalled to the national team U-23 that competed in the 2013 AFC U-22 Asian Cup qualification. In this tournament he played 5 times and scored one goal.

On 5 October 2012 he made his debut as a Timor Leste national football team in the match against Cambodia in the event the 2012 AFF Suzuki Cup qualification which ended with a 5–1 win.[7][8] Until now Diogo has played in four games for the national team.[9]

On 19 January 2017, the Asian Football Confederation declared Diogo and eleven other Brazilian men's footballers ineligible to represent East Timor.[10][11] Two months later, the East Timorese passport he had received has been declared ‘null and void’ by the Ministry of Justice of East Timor.[12]

Honours

Club honors
Sriwijaya
Daejeon Citizen
AA São Caetano
  • Campeão Paulista A2 (3): 2017
AA Anapolina
  • Acesso ao Campeonato Brasileiro (4): 2018
Melhor Defensor dos ultimos tempos, INDONESIA LEAGUE

References
  1. Match Report Archived 25 September 2017 at the Wayback Machine CBF (in Portuguese)
  2. Fitriansyah, Hensyi. "Sriwijaya FC Kontrak Diogo Santos Selama Tiga Tahun". [goal.com]. Goal.com. Retrieved 8 November 2012.
  3. "Diogo Santos Rangel (디오고)". [kleague.com]. K League. Retrieved 20 April 2014.
  4. Yung, Yat Fu. "理文新球季引入3大經驗老將 實行「以老帶新」聯賽站穩陣腳". Upower. Retrieved 19 July 2019. (in Chinese)
  5. "理文增兵應付銀牌決賽 葡萄牙守將賓希路加盟". Upower (in Traditional Chinese). Retrieved 21 January 2020.
  6. Dennys, Ferril. "Babak I, Indonesia Hajar Timor Leste 4–0". [kompas.com]. Kompas. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
  7. "Cambodia 1 Timor Leste 5". [affsuzukucup.com]. ASEAN Football Federation. Archived from the original on 8 October 2012. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
  8. "The match summary". affsuzukicup.com. ASEAN Football Federation. Archived from the original on 4 October 2015. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
  9. Diogo Rangel at National-Football-Teams.com
  10. "AFC Disciplinary Committee decision 20170119DC01" (PDF). Asian Football Confederation. 19 January 2017. p. 1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 January 2017. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
  11. Chade, Jamil (20 January 2017). "Com brasileiros 'falsificados' em campo, Timor Leste é banido de competições" [With Brazilians "falsified" on field, East Timor is banned from competitions] (in Portuguese). Estadão. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
  12. "Timor-Leste passports declared 'null and void'". Asian Football Confederation. 22 March 2017. Retrieved 24 March 2017.


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