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{{Infobox football biography
| name= Leo Nelson
| fullname = Avua-Siav Leo Tomovich Nelson
| image = Leo Nelson.JPG
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1980|8|8}}
| birth_place = [[Moscow]], [[Russian SFSR]]
| height = {{height|m=1.88}}
| currentclub = retired
| clubnumber =
| position = [[Midfielder (association football)|Defensive Midfielder]]
| youthyears1 = 
| youthclubs1 = [[PFC CSKA Moscow]]
| years1 = 1998 
| years2 = 2000 
| years3 = 2000 
| years4 = 2001 
| years5 = 2003 
| years6 = 2004 
| years7 = 2005 
| years8 = 2005–2007 
| years9 = 2007–2008 
| years10 = 2009
| years11 = 2010
| clubs1 = [[FC Torpedo-2 Moscow]] 
| clubs2 = [[FC Spartak Tambov]] 
| clubs3 = [[FC Metallurg Lipetsk]] 
| clubs4 = [[FC Zhenis]] 
| clubs5 = [[FC Vidnoye]] 
| clubs6 = [[FC Gazovik Orenburg]] 
| clubs7 = [[FC Gomel]] 
| clubs8 = [[FC Nara-Desna Naro-Fominsk]] 
| clubs9 = [[FC Torpedo-RG Moscow]] 
| clubs10 = [[FC Ryazan]]
| clubs11 = [[FC Olimp Fryazino]]
| caps1 = 11  
| caps2 = 6  
| caps3 = 7  
| caps4 = 30  
| caps5 = 24  
| caps6 = 31  
| caps7 = 12  
| caps8 = 52  
| caps9 = 35  
| caps10 = 4  
| caps11 = 
| goals1 = 0  
| goals2 = 1  
| goals3 = 0  
| goals4 = 7  
| goals5 = 1  
| goals6 = 4  
| goals7 = 0  
| goals8 = 4  
| goals9 = 1  
| goals10 = 0 
| goals11 = 
| pcupdate = 
| ntupdate =
}}

'''Avua-Siav Leo Tomovich Nelson''' or simply '''Leo Nelson''' ({{lang-ru|Авуа-Сиав Лео Томович Нельсон}}; born August 8, 1980 in [[Moscow]]) is a [[Russia]]n retired professional [[Association football|football]]er, he last played for [[FC Ryazan]].

==International career==
He was the first player of African descent to represent Russia internationally on any level (he played for the Under-19 national team).<ref name=firstblack>[http://www.inostranets.ru/archive/2000/0912_35/ Не похожий на меня, не похожий на тебя - просто так прохожий, парень чернокожий...]</ref>

==Personal life==
His father is from [[Ghana]] and his mother is [[Russia]]n.<ref>[http://old.samara.ru/paper/41/583/9922/&printable Лео Нельсон: "Горжусь тем, какой есть..."] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928132917/http://old.samara.ru/paper/41/583/9922/&printable |date=September 28, 2011 }}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:1980 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Russian footballers]]
[[Category:Russian expatriate footballers]]
[[Category:Expatriate footballers in Kazakhstan]]
[[Category:Expatriate footballers in Belarus]]
[[Category:FC Spartak Tambov players]]
[[Category:FC Zhenis Astana players]]
[[Category:Russian expatriates in Kazakhstan]]
[[Category:FC Gomel players]]
[[Category:FC Metallurg Lipetsk players]]
[[Category:Russian people of Ghanaian descent]]
[[Category:Ghanaian expatriates in Kazakhstan]]


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[[Category:Association football defenders]]