Wilson Sanches Leal

Football career Sanches Leal began his football career as a youngster with his local club, Viry-Châtillon, which included all three of Portugal's group matches at the 2002 UEFA Under-17 Championships. He played once for the club's first team in the Championnat National (the third tier of French football) before returning to the Paris area in summer 2004 where he joined Créteil, primarily as a backup player.

He made his Ligue 2 debut on July 29, 2005, as a second-half substitute in a 3–2 victory over Caen. Over the 2005–06 season, he appeared in seventeen Ligue 2 matches, and was rewarded with his first professional contract. Sanches Leal spent the following season on loan at Cherbourg, where he scored twice from 25 appearances in the Championnat National. He made two assists on his return to the first team – who had been relegated in his absence – in January, and finished the season with 13 league appearances. He played only infrequently in 2008–09, he signed for Drancy, bottom of the Championnat de France amateur (CFA). The new blood helped Drancy retain their fourth-tier status, and Sanches Leal moved sideways, to Villemomble. In January 2011, he walked out of the stadium before the start of a match against Noisy to express his unhappiness at being omitted from the starting eleven. He did not play for the club again, only returning to football in June 2012 after more than a year out, when he signed for CFA club Viry-Châtillon, for whom he had played as a youngster.