| Diego Assis | |
| Fullname: | Diego Assis Figueiredo |
| Birth Date: | 14 September 1987 |
| Birth Place: | Minas Gerais, Brazil |
| Height: | 1.66 m[1] |
| Position: | Attacking midfielder |
| Years1: | 2010–2012 |
| Clubs1: | Assi IF |
| Caps1: | 48 |
| Goals1: | 25 |
| Years2: | 2013–2016 |
| Caps2: | 100 |
| Goals2: | 24 |
| Years3: | 2017 |
| Caps3: | 11 |
| Goals3: | 0 |
| Years4: | 2018–2019 |
| Caps4: | 28 |
| Goals4: | 6 |
| Years5: | 2019 |
| Years6: | 2019 |
| Caps6: | 16 |
| Goals6: | 2 |
| Years7: | 2021 |
| Caps7: | 0 |
| Goals7: | 0 |
| Pcupdate: | 22 December 2019 |
Diego Assis Figueiredo (born 14 September 1987) is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder.[2]
Before playing football, Assis worked as a mechanic around the same time as playing amateur football.[3] Assis had a big moment when he moved to Sweden in July 2010 to join Assi after being scouted in Europe, playing in the tournament.[3]
After signing a contract in 2011, Assis then helped the club get promoted to Norra Norrland.[3] During his two-year spell at Assi, he scored 25 goals in 48 appearances.
On 23 October 2012, it was announced that Assis would join Finnish side Mariehamn on a free transfer for next season.[4] Assis had interests from Swedish clubs before moving to Mariehamn.[5]
Despite losing all of the six matches in the group stage of the Finnish League Cup, Assis scored once in the group stage, in a 4-3 loss against Honka.[6] Asis then scored his first goal for the club and set up one of the goals on his debut, in the opening game of the season, in a 3-1 win over RoPS on 14 April 2013.[7] Assis then scored three more goals later in the season against Lahti,[8] Turun Palloseura[9] and MYPA.[10] However, Assis finished the first season, making twenty-four appearances and scoring five times in all competitions after suffering a knee injury during a Europa League match against Inter Baku that ended his season.[11]
After recovering from a knee injury ahead of the new season,[12] Assis then made his return to the first team on 23 April 2014, in a 1-0 win over Turun Palloseura.[13] Following this, Assis started sign of improvement when he scored his first goal of the season, in a 2-2 draw against Honka on 23 May 2014[14] and his second goal of the season then came on 11 June 2014, in a 3-1 loss against TPS.[15] After scoring against Inter Turku[16] and Vaasan Palloseura,[17] Assis scored a hat-trick on 10 August 2014, in a 4-1 win over Honka.[18] After scoring in a 3-1 win over ROPS on 24 August 2014,[19] Assis signed a two-year contract with the club, keeping him until 2016, three days later.[20] Assis later scored four more goals in the season against Kuopion Palloseura[21] and TPS (twice).[22] Assis went on to finish the 2014, making twenty-four appearances and scoring eleven times in all competitions.
In the 2015 season, Assis started the season when he scored in the fourth round of the Finnish League Cup, in a 12-0 win over Tampere United[23] and then scored his first league goal against VPS.[24] Assis then scored twice on 17 May 2015, in a 2-0 win over FC Ilves.[25] In the semi final of Finnish League Cup, Assis scored in a 5-1 win over HJK[26] and in the final of the Finnish Cup, he scored a brace, in a 2-1 win over FC Inter.[27] Assis finished the 2015 season, making thirty-eight appearances and scoring seven times in all competitions.
In the 2016 season, Assis started the season well when he scored four goals in fifteen appearances against Palloseura Kemi Kings,[28] HIFK Fotboll,[29] VPS[30] and SJK.[31] Assis then ended his fourteen league matches without scoring, in a 1-1 draw against ROPS on 14 October 2016.[32] In the last game of the season, Assis came on as a substitute in the second half and scored the winning goal, in a 2-1 win over Ilves to secure the first ever Veikkausliiga Championship for the island club. Following the club's title win, Assis went on to make thirty-nine appearances and scored six times in all competitions.
On 20 December 2016, Assis signed for Thai League T1 side Thai Honda.[33]
After leaving Persela, Assis signed for Saudi second-tier club Al-Ain in January 2019.[34]
| Club | Season | League | National Cup | League Cup | Continental | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
| Assi IF | 2010[36] | Division 3 Norra Norrland | 8 | 6 | colspan="2" | - | colspan="2" | - | 8 | 6 | |||
| 2011[37] | 20 | 13 | colspan="2" | - | colspan="2" | - | 28 | 12 | |||||
| 2012[38] | Division 2 Norrland | 20 | 6 | colspan="2" | - | colspan="2" | - | 20 | 6 | ||||
| Total | 48 | 25 | - | - | - | - | 48 | 25 | |||||
| IFK Mariehamn | 2013 | Veikkausliiga | 15 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 5 | |
| 2014 | 25 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | colspan="2" | - | 28 | 12 | |||
| 2015 | 28 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 0 | colspan="2" | - | 25 | 6 | |||
| 2016 | 32 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 41 | 6 | |||
| Total | 100 | 24 | 8 | 3 | 15 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 118 | 29 | |||
| Thai Honda | 2017 | Thai League T1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | colspan="2" | - | colspan="2" | - | 1 | 0 | |
| Career total | 149 | 49 | 8 | 3 | 15 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 167 | 54 | |||
Assis is married and together, they have a son.[3] In addition to speaking Portuguese, Assis also speaks English and Swedish since moving to Europe in 2010.[3]