Tonel playing for Dinamo Zagreb |
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | António Leonel Vilar Nogueira Sousa | ||
| Date of birth | 13 April 1980 | ||
| Place of birth | Lourosa, Portugal | ||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Playing position | Centre back | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Dinamo Zagreb | ||
| Number | 13 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1994–1995 | Espinho | ||
| 1995–1996 | Porto | ||
| 1996–1997 | Espinho | ||
| 1997–1999 | Porto | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1999–2001 | Porto B | 40 | (1) |
| 2001–2004 | → Académica (loan) | 112 | (9) |
| 2004–2005 | Marítimo | 28 | (1) |
| 2005–2010 | Sporting CP | 117 | (11) |
| 2010– | Dinamo Zagreb | 32 | (3) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2000–2002 | Portugal U21 | 24 | (1) |
| 2006– | Portugal | 2 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 27 November 2011. † Appearances (Goals). |
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António Leonel Vilar Nogueira Sousa, aka Tonel (born 13 April 1980 in Lourosa, Santa Maria da Feira; Portuguese pronunciation: [tuˈnɛɫ]), is a Portuguese footballer who plays for GNK Dinamo Zagreb in Croatia, as a central defender.
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Coming through the youth teams of F.C. Porto, Tonel made his professional debut when he was loaned out to Académica de Coimbra during the 2000–01 season, helping the club promote to the top division in his second year. Despite earning a good reputation for himself during the three-season loan spell, he was deemed surplus to requirements by his parent club and was released, moving to C.S. Marítimo during the summer of 2004, as part of an exchange deal with Porto which saw Pepe arrive at the Estádio do Dragão.
Tonel enjoyed a hugely successful season for the Madeira team, picking up some European experience during the club's UEFA Cup tie against Rangers. He formed a fomidable partnership with Dutch Mitchell van der Gaag in defence and became one of the team's leading figures, playing 28 league games and scoring once, on 25 September 2004, in a 2–1 home win over Boavista FC.
After an impressive season, Tonel signed a three-year deal with Sporting Clube de Portugal for €500,000, on July 2005.[1] The second stint with another side of the Big Three was much more successful this time, as he was an everpresent figure at Sporting's back four since his arrival, alongside Brazilian international Ânderson Polga, also scoring the occasional goal on set pieces.
Shortly after furthering his link with the Lions until 2011,[2] he scored five goals overall during 2007–08, including one in a 2–1 win at FC Dynamo Kyiv for the season's UEFA Champions League (incidentally, Polga netted the other).[3]
In late October 2008, after an injury in a draw at F.C. Paços de Ferreira, Tonel lost his place to youth graduate Daniel Carriço, and never regained it again during the season, although he himself took Polga's place midway through the following campaign.
On 27 August 2010, after falling out of favour with new manager Paulo Sérgio, 30-year old Tonel signed for Croatian club GNK Dinamo Zagreb.[4] He made his official debut for the club in an Eternal derby match against HNK Hajduk Split on 11 September 2010.[5] He was awarded #13 shirt in domestic competition, but played with #28 in European fixtures, as Dario Šimić had been registered with the former number at the start of the 2010–11 season, before retiring in August 2010.
In a 15 November 2006 UEFA Euro 2008 qualifier against Kazakhstan in Coimbra, Tonel made his debut with Portugal, playing 77 minutes in a 3–0 win. His second cap came more than three years after, on 3 March 2010, as he was called as a last-minute replacement for injured Ricardo Carvalho for a friendly with China, played in the same venue (2–0 win).
| Club | Season | League | Cup | Europe | Total | ||||
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| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Porto B | 1999–00 | 29 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 1 |
| Académica | 2000–01 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 2 |
| Porto B | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | |
| Académica | 2001–02 | 31 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 2 |
| 2002–03 | 31 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 2 | |
| Académica B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Académica | 2003–04 | 31 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 3 |
| Académica B | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Marítimo | 2004–05 | 28 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 2 |
| Sporting | 2005–06 | 30 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 31 | 3 |
| 2006–07 | 25 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 31 | 2 | |
| 2007–08 | 27 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 41 | 5 | |
| 2008–09 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 20 | 2 | |
| 2009–10 | 23 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 38 | 2 | |
| Dinamo Zagreb | 2010–11 | 22 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 35 | 2 |
| 2011–12 | 5 | 1 | - | - | 5 | 0 | 10 | 1 | |
| Total | 325 | 27 | 18 | 2 | 44 | 3 | 387 | 32 | |
Statistics accurate as of 20 August 2011.
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