Leonardo Martins Neiva, better known as Léo Neiva (born 10 December 1977 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian Pro License football coach and former Brazilian footballer who played as a midfielder. He recentely commanded the Saint Kitts and Nevis national team, affiliated to CONCACAF. where he achieved an unprecedented classification for the second round of the Qatar World Cup Qualifiers. Career Recently, the Brazilian coach achieved a historic feat for the Caribbean national team. Léo Neiva led Saint Kitts and Nevis to the first place in Group F in the first round of Concacaf qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup, outperforming Trinidad and Tobago, Puerto Rico, Bahamas and Guyiana. This was the first time in history that the “Sugar Boyz” reached the second round of the qualifiers, being the only non-main team of the group to qualify. Under the command of the coach, Saint Kitts and Nevis improved from 27th place in the ranking of Concacaf, to 14th position. Léo Neiva started his career as an assistant coach for América FC (Rio de Janeiro) in 2007. Then he accepted the invitation to take over the Platinum Stars FC (Royal Bafokeng) Academy in South Africa, which would be the first of 8 jobs done outside Brazil. After this experience, the coach returned to Brazil in 2010 to lead the Bonsucesso-RJ team, where he was the head coach of the Senior team and also of the U’20. Then, Léo had the opportunity to take over Yadanarbon FC, where he had a lot of prominence in the work with young players. A large number of them reached the U’20 National Team that participated in the U’20 World Cup for the first time in history in New Zealand (2015). This achievement put him in the spotlight in the country. His work was recognized and he had the opportunity to lead the Senior team of Rakhine United. At the time, he was the youngest coach to work in the Myanmar National League, at just 34 years old. After the end of the contract with the Asian club, Léo again had the chance to return to Brazil, where he worked in Francana's team in the A3 Series of the São Paulo's Championship. The coach only returned to command a Brazilian club in 2019, when he accepted the challenge of commanding Clube Atlético Itapemirim, a team of Espírito Santo Championship. Between those comings and goings in