Gleison Pinto dos Santos (born 18 August 1981) is a former Brazilian footballer who played as a defender.
Santos started his career at Comercial de Ribeirão Preto of Campeonato Paulista Série A2.
Santos played his only substitute appearance in round 24, replacing Duccio Innocenti.
Santos only made 11 starts in 2007–08 Serie A,[12] as the team had centre-backs likes Cesare Bovo and Alessandro Lucarelli in its 3–4–3 or 4–3–3 formation.
Santos had to compete with Francesco Bega (left in January) and Gaetano De Rosa for the third place of the centre-back, which the coach even used Abdoulay Konko in the 3-men defense.
[16] Santos received his first call-up since injury on 10 November,[17] but wait until 2 December to return to the bench.
[11] Genoa paid AlbinoLeffe €250,000 cash and Francesco Renzetti[19] who tagged for €750,000[11] in order to acquire the 50% registration rights of Santos, but Renzetti was in fact acquired from Lucchese for €600,000 only,[11] made Genoa instantly had a €150,000 profit.
[22] In June 2009 Genoa re-acquired Renzetti for €250,000 and the remain 50% rights of Mesto for €3 million, while Santos' deal was renewed.
Despite constantly received call-up from Breda,[25] Santos only able to appear once more as unused bench in round 39.
Santos played in pre-season friendlies in July under new coach Gianluca Atzori.