| Airton | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Airton Ribeiro Santos | |
| Date of birth | February 21, 1990 | |
| Place of birth | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | |
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 111⁄2 in) | |
| Playing position | Defensive Midfielder, Central Defender | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | Benfica | |
| Number | 26 | |
| Youth career | ||
| 2007 2007 2008 |
Nova Iguaçu Mesquita Flamengo |
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| Senior career1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 2008–2009 2010– |
Flamengo Benfica |
47
(0) 0 (0) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Airton Ribeiro Santos or simply Airton (born Rio de Janeiro, February 21, 1990), is a Defensive Midfielder who played for Brazilian club Flamengo and recently signed with Benfica from Portugal.
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He started his career at Nova Iguaçu at 13 years of age. In the end of 2007, Flamengo's youth coach Adílio asked for his loan. Airton also spent four months on loan at Mesquita in 2007, playing in the youth team.
Airton arrived at Flamengo, on loan, on January 7, 2008 to play in the club's youth team. His rights belonged, at that time, to Nova Iguaçu, which had contract until 2010. He would play for Flamengo until the end of 2008, but still in 2008 Flamengo signed him acquiring part of his rights, Nova Iguaçu and Traffic (investors group) shared the other parts of his rights.
His first match in the first-team was in the 1–1 draw against Vasco da Gama on April 6, 2008. And his debut in the Brazilian Série A was on Mineirão Stadium coming from the bench in the 1-1 draw against Atlético Mineiro on July 9, 2008.
In December of 2009, after many speculations, Benfica signed Aírton for five year deal.[1][2][3] Flamengo received a sum around €1,1 million for it's 15% of his rights.
| Club | Season | Carioca League | Brazilian Série A | Brazilian Cup | Copa Libertadores | Copa Sudamericana | Total | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Goals | Assists | Apps | Goals | Assists | Apps | Goals | Assists | Apps | Goals | Assists | Apps | Goals | Assists | Apps | Goals | Assists | ||
| Flamengo | 2008 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 17 | 0 | 0 |
| 2009 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 31 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | 2 | 0 | 0 | 53 | 0 | 2 | |
| Total | 15 | 0 | 1 | 47 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | 2 | 0 | 0 | 70 | 0 | 2 | |
according to combined sources on the Flamengo official website[4] and Flaestatística[5].
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