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Full name | João Leithardt Neto | |||||||||||||
Date of birth | 6 January 1958 | |||||||||||||
Place of birth | Passo Fundo, Brazil | |||||||||||||
Date of death | 3 October 2015 | (aged 57)|||||||||||||
Place of death | Passo Fundo, Brazil | |||||||||||||
Position(s) | Forward | |||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
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Brazil national football team | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
João Leithardt Neto (6 January 1958 – 3 October 2015), nicknamed Kita, was a Brazilian footballer who played as a forward. He competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics with the Brazil national football team. [1]
Kita died on 3 October 2015 at the age of 57 due to a generalized infection aggravated by liver cancer. [2]