Place of birth Murici, Brazil Role Football midfielder 2000 Estanciano Height 1.76 m | 2001 Sergipe Weight 76 kg Name Hamilton Ferreira Position Midfielder | |
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Full name Hamilton Henio Ferreira Calheiros Date of birth (1980-06-26) 26 June 1980 (age 35) Playing position | ||
Hamílton Hênio Ferreira Calheiros (born June 26, 1980), known simply as Hamílton, is a naturalized Togolese football midfielder, who plays for Ceará in the Brazilian Série B.
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Biography
Hamílton was born in Murici, a municipality located in the western of the Brazilian state of Alagoas.
International career
Hamílton has been naturalized Togolese in 2003 across of Antônio Dumas, which this one was Togo's coach. In that time, Hamílton won the Campeonato Sergipano with Sergipe and Dumas has spoken with the president of the Fédération Togolaise de Football (FTF) and the latter agreed.
Hamílton, up to the date, was one time Togo national team's player. It was on October 11, 2003 in a World Cup 2006 Qualifying match against Equatorial Guinea in Malabo. That day Les Eperviers (the nickname of Togo national football team) lost by 1-0. Hamílton could not have played in the second leg because he had left the Togolese passport in the Federation.
In early 2004, when Dumas resigned as head coach, Hamílton, and the others Brazilian-born who made up the Togolese squad, were never called.
On July 10, 2009 appeared a news about the Fédération Togolaise de Football resumed contact with Hamílton for can be called again, almost 6 years of his unique appearance.
Hamílton, finally, was included in the list of players called for a friendly match, against Angola on August 12, 2009. But he could not to come because, days ago, he has had a discipline problem occurred during a match of the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (Brasileirão) between his club (Sport Recife) against Palmeiras.
Hamílton was going to be present for the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification against Morocco on September 6, 2009. Nevertheless, he has not been liberated by Sport Recife because the Togolese federation did not send it a corresponding notification.
The Togolese national team returned to call Hamílton for the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification against Cameroon on October 10, 2009. A few days later, he asked permission to the FTF for not attending to the match, due to bad timing of his club in the Brasileirão (Brazilian championship calendar is not interrupted by the FIFA days) and his intention to help it.
In December 2009, Hamílton was included in the Togolese preliminary list for the 2010 African Cup of Nations but he refused to go, just because he wanted to spend the year-end holidays in the interior of Sergipe. Ultimately, he avoided be part of the Togo national football team attack.