Ricardo Gomes Vilana (born 18 July 1981) is a retired

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Career

Early career

Ricardo Vilana was on born 18 July 1981 in

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, starting to play football at local club, Portuguesa, afterwards moving to play in the Swiss lower leagues at Malcantone Agno. After his daughter was born, Vilana decided to not play football anymore, instead he played

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Unirea Urziceni

He was brought back to playing football about two years later, being convinced to sign with Romanian club

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by his brother-in-law, Alex Leandro who was playing there. Vilana made his

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debut on 10 September 2006 when coach Costel Orac sent him on the field in order to replace Alexandru Pojer in the 85th minute of a 2–0 home win over Național București. Ricardo helped the club win the 2008–09 Liga I edition, under the coaching of

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who used him 20 games in which he scored once in a 2–0 away victory against Politehnica Iași. In the following season he made five appearances in the 2009–10 Champions League group stage, playing against

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and

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, helping the team earn 8 points and finishing third, thus qualifying to the sixteenths-finals of the

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where he played in both legs of the 4–1 loss in front of

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Steaua București

In August 2010 he signed a contract with Steaua București alongside teammates from

: Galamaz, Marinescu, Apostol, Bilașco, Onofraș and Brandán. Firstly he was sent by coach

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to play in

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for the team's satellite club, Steaua II București, making his debut against Juventus București, the team winning 1–0 with his goal. Afterwards he started to play for the first team, including making five appearances in the 2010–11 Europa League group stage against

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and

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, failing to qualify further as they finished third. Also by the end of the season the team won the

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, but he did not get to play in the

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as he and fellow Brazilian

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terminated their contracts on mutual agreement with the club on 4 May 2011.

Khazar Lankaran

Vilana and Bonfim went together to play for Khazar Lankaran in Azerbaijan, being brought there by Romanian coach,

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. He left the club after about one year in which the team finished runner-up in the 2011–12 season, also making appearances in qualification rounds of the

Late career

In 2013, Vilana signed a contract with

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from the Spanish fifth league, afterwards returning to Brazil, having spells at

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in Série C and then in 2016 at Série A club,

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for whom however he did not get to play.

Honours

Unirea Urziceni *

: 2008–09 Steaua București *

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Vilana, Ricardo Gomes 1981 births Living people Brazilian men's footballers Brazilian expatriate men's footballers Campeonato Brasileiro Série C players Liga I players Liga II players Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland Expatriate men's footballers in Romania Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Romania Expatriate men's footballers in Azerbaijan Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Azerbaijan Associação Portuguesa de Desportos players Esporte Clube Novo Hamburgo players FC Unirea Urziceni players FCSB players FCSB II players Khazar Lankaran FK players Guaratinguetá Futebol players Coritiba Foot Ball Club players FC Andorra players Men's association football midfielders Footballers from São Paulo 21st-century Brazilian sportsmen