Eduardo Ribeiro dos Santos, a Brazilian football player, a forward. He was born on 5 August 1980 in São João do Piauí, Brazil.
The footballer began his career at EC Flamengo in 1997, and then went on at Joinville. In 2001 he joined Grasshoppers Club Zürich, where he played for five seasons. Ribeiro dos Santos scored many goals in the Swiss Super League, and displayed his attacking skills.
In January 2007, the player joined the football club Guingamp in Ligue 2, and in spite of the frequent injuries, he was one of the best players of the league. In the first half of the season in the UK the footballer scored 4 goals, and the team fans set high hopes on him. In 25 matches of the following season Eduardo scored 10 goals. In 2009, the footballer became the top shooter again. Ribeiro dos Santos approved himself in the Coupe de France, where he scored one goal for each game. His hour of triumph came on 9 May, when he scored 2 goals in the final, which helped his team to win.
In Ligue 1, Eduardo performed for several football clubs - Sochaux, Bordeaux, Marseille and Nancy. On 23 May, he officially signed a four-year deal with RC Lens. On 23 August, the footballer netted his first goal on the third day of the championship in Grenoble. There was a tough competition for the center forward position in the team. So, Ribeiro stayed frequently on the substitutes’ bench. Surprisingly, the footballer showed even better results - he netted the winning goal against Marseille, and three weeks later he repeated the feat in the game against Saint-Étienne.
In the 2011/2012 Ribeiro dos Santos became the best scorer of the club.
On 3 January 2012, the footballer moved to Ajaccio. Eduardo netted his first two goals for the new team on 14 January in the match against Auxerre. In 2013 the Brazilian was released from the club. However, 6 months later Ajaccio decided to return the Brazilian to the squad.
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