Name
Lucas
(Lucas Leiva)

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Born
1987 (37 years old)

Birth Place
Dourados, Brazil

Position
Defensive Midfield

Status
Retired

Ethnicity
White

Team Number
15

Height
1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)

Weight
73 kg (161 lb)

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Lucas Pezzini Leiva (born 9 January 1987), known as Lucas or Lucas Leiva (Brazilian Portuguese: ), is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Grêmio.

Lucas began his career as a box-to-box midfielder at Grêmio where he won the Campeonato Gaúcho in 2006 and 2007. In July 2007 he moved to Liverpool, where he played 347 professional matches over the course of a decade, winning the League Cup in 2012. Between 2010 and 2016 Lucas led the Premier League in tackles per game five times in six seasons. He has the second most tackles in Premier League history, and remains the Brazilian with the 3rd most Premier League appearances. He joined Lazio in 2017.

A full international since 2007, he has earned 24 caps and represented Brazil at the 2008 Olympics and 2011 Copa América, winning a bronze medal at the former. He also captained the under-20 team to victory in the 2007 South American Youth Championship.


Career Honours

Supercoppa Italiana
2019

Lazio

Coppa Italia
2018-2019

Lazio

Supercoppa Italiana
2017

Lazio

Football League Cup
2011-2012

Liverpool

Campeonato Gaúcho
2007

Gremio

Campeonato Gaúcho
2006

Gremio


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Former Youth Teams


Former Senior Teams

2005-2007

2007-2013

2007-2017

2008

2017-2022

2022-2023


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Contracts

2017-2022


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