Xavier Dirceu
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Template:Short description Template:Infobox football biography Dirceu Francisco Xavier (born December 18, 1977, in Cabo Frio), nicknamed Xavier Dirceu or just Xavier, and sometimes misspelled Xavier Dirção, is a Brazilian football former player lastly played for São Bernardo.
Playing career
He helped Maccabi Haifa to its tenth championship in 2005. Dirceu joined the club as an unknown (from Santo André of Brazil), but quickly became the top defensive midfielder in the Israeli Premier League.
In August 2007, he left Maccabi Haifa and signed for 3 years in Maccabi Petah Tikva, but he left the club after one season and returned to Brazil.
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Categories:
- 1977 births
- Living people
- People from Cabo Frio
- Brazilian men's footballers
- Maccabi Haifa F.C. players
- Maccabi Petah Tikva F.C. players
- Expatriate men's footballers in Israel
- Israeli Premier League players
- Men's association football midfielders
- Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Israel
- Footballers from Rio de Janeiro (state)
- 20th-century Brazilian sportsmen
- Brazilian expatriate men's footballers