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is Matos and the second or paternal family name is Dos Santos.'' Sténio Nivaldo Matos dos Santos (born 6 May 1988), commonly known as Sténio, is a Cape Verde international

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who plays as a

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for Sacavenense.

Career

Born in

Mindelo Mindelo is a port cityCabo Verde, Statistical Yearbook 2 ...

, Sténio started his career at hometown club Académica do Mindelo. In 2009, he joined the other club in the town

CS Mindelense Clube Sportivo Mindelense ( Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: ''KS Mindelensi'' (''KS'' – ''Klubi Sporting''), São Vicente Crioulo: ''KS Mindelense'' (''KS'' – ''Klube or Clube (CS)'') is a football club that plays in the ...

. On 1 July 2014, Sténio joined

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on a two-year contract. On 30 May 2015, Sténio was sent off with a second yellow card after 38 minutes in the 2015 Bulgarian Cup Final against

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, but his team managed to prevail after extra time despite its numerical disadvantage. In July 2016, he signed a one-year contract with

Botev Plovdiv Profesionalen Futbolen Klub Botev AD, commonly referred to as Botev Plovdiv (, ), or simply Botev (within its associated city), is a Bulgarian professional Association football, football club based in Plovdiv. It competes in the First Professiona ...

. He was released in December. Sténio left

FK Ventspils FK Ventspils was a Latvian professional football club based at Ventspils Olimpiskais Stadions in Ventspils. It was one of the most prominent football clubs in the country. The club played in the Latvian Virslīga since 1997. It folded in July ...

after one year, at the end of 2018.FK VENTSPILS TRANSFĒRU JAUNUMI
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International career

Sténio received his first call-up to the

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squad in May 2012, for the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifier against

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on 2 June. He made his debut in the match, playing from the start in central midfield. In January 2013, Sténio was named in

's squad for the

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, but did not feature in any of the four games Cape Verde played.

Career statistics

Club

Honours

Club

;Cherno More *

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: 2014–15 *

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2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

References

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Stenio 1988 births Living people Cape Verdean men's footballers Cape Verde men's international footballers Académica do Mindelo players CS Mindelense players C.D. Feirense players PFC Cherno More Varna players Botev Plovdiv players FC Politehnica Iași (2010) players FC Dacia Chișinău players FK Ventspils players União de Santarém players Primeira Liga players First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players Liga I players Moldovan Super Liga players Latvian Higher League players 2013 Africa Cup of Nations players Men's association football midfielders Cape Verdean expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Portugal Cape Verdean expatriate sportspeople in Portugal Expatriate men's footballers in Bulgaria Cape Verdean expatriate sportspeople in Bulgaria Expatriate men's footballers in Romania Cape Verdean expatriate sportspeople in Romania Expatriate men's footballers in Moldova Cape Verdean expatriate sportspeople in Moldova Expatriate men's footballers in Latvia Sportspeople from Mindelo