Paulo Dos Santos (born 13 November 1973 in

São Vicente, Cape Verde São Vicente (Portuguese language, Portuguese for "Vincent of Saragossa, Saint Vincent") is one of the Barlavento Islands, the northern group within the Cape Verde archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, off the West Africa, West African coast. It is ...

) is a Cape Verdean soccer

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who played two seasons with the

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, four seasons in the

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and six seasons in Norway.

Youth

Dos Santos, a native of the Cape Verde Islands, moved to

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when he was sixteen. He attended the

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, playing on the men's soccer team from 1993 to 1995. He finished his two seasons with the Rams with twenty-two goals and seventeen assists in thirty-nine games. He graduated in 1997.

Professional

On 4 March 1996, the

selected Dos Santos in the 3rd round (26th overall) of the

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. He spent the season with the Revs, but never entered a game and was waived on 7 November 1996. In February 1997, the

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selected Dos Santos in the 2nd round (18th overall) of the 1997 MLS Supplemental Draft. The Mutiny waived him before the season and on 15 April 1997, the Connecticut Wolves of the

signed Dos Santos. The team released him on 13 February 1998. He then moved to the Rhode Island Stingrays where he was a USISL D-3 All Star. In the winter of 1998–1999, he briefly played for an unknown team in the Cape Verde before returning to work in real estate in Rhode Island. On 12 March 1999, he was brought back into the

by Steve Nichols. Nichols used him in sixteen games and he also played part of the season on loan with the Boston Bulldogs. On 14 March 2000, the Revolution waived Dos Santos and in April 2000 he signed with the Boston Bulldogs. In 2002, he moved to

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in the

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. In 2003, the team moved up to the

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but was back in the First Division in 2004 and was promoted back to the Tippeligaen in 2005. Dos Santos remained with the team through those moves. He moved to

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for the 2006 season. In the summer of 2007, he moved to Hødd as a free agent. The team released him after the season and he moved to Cape Verde.

References

External links

Sams-Army.com Player ProfileNew England Revolution history
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