Raphael Carioca was born on 18.06.1989 in one of the largest Brazilian cities - Rio de Janeiro. From the age of fifteen he began to play for the youth team of his country. At the beginning of his professional career, Rafael played for several Brazilian clubs. Since 2009, he has already been listed as a midfielder of Spartak Moscow, and currently plays in Brazil, in the Atletico Mineiro club, on loan rights.
Carier start
From early childhood, Raphael Carioca, biographywhich is full of transitions from one club to another, I set a goal: to become a professional football player. The main advantage of the young man was a high speed of movement, a good vision of the field and mutual understanding with partners. The first official match he played on the field dates back to 2003. It happened at the Sendaz Club, which represented the Brazilian Junior Championships.
Следующие два года Кариока выступал за «Пауди Asukar. Since 2006, he has been in the official junior squad of the Gremio Club. Although the seventeen-year-old did not like the game as part of the new club, he remained in it for two years.
From 26.03.2008 Rafael Carioca - midfielder of the professional club "Gremio", for which he played 37 matches. It was the game for the club from Puerto Allegri that impressed Spartak sales agents, with the result that the young and promising Brazilian is in the form of red and white.
Game in Russia
The debut in the Russian club occurred 15.13.2009, in a match against the St. Petersburg "Zenith". The beginning of a career here can be called problematic. In the autumn of the same year, Rafael tried to return to his homeland, to the Vasco de Gama club. The main reasons are the following reasons:
- the desire to get into the national team, and for this it was better to play for domestic clubs;
- spouse pregnancy;
- unfavorable Russian climate;
- difficult to learn language.
After the New Year he manages to go to the desiredthe club, for which the player during the year on loan. True, the game does not bring anything good to his reputation. After the defeat of the club with a score of 0-4 in the game, where Raphael made some gross mistakes, the fans began to respond about him not very well.
At the end of the lease agreement, he was forced to return to Russia and continue to play under the direction of Valery Karpin.
Statistics
At the moment, Rafael Carioca, statisticsperformances which allows us to talk about his participation in almost all serious club tournaments of the world, trying to achieve good performance and get into the team. “In the future 2016, I will try to progress and move towards my goal, and I’m sure that I can get a call for the national team,” he says.
| Performance cup | Matches played | Minutes played | Goals scored | Yellow cards | 2 yellow cards in one match |
| Cup of Russia | 10 | 740 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
UEFA Champions League | 8 | 654 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
UEFA Cup (Europa League) | 9 | 740 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Copa Libertadores | 8 | 694 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| RFPL | 112 | 8698 | 2 | 32 | 3 |
Achievements
Rafael Carioca may well count onachieving your main goal - getting into the team under the leadership of Dunga. The reason for this is the awarding him the "Silver Ball". It happened at the end of 2015. The prize was awarded to a footballer for 36 matches played for the club and 2025 exact passes. With this result, he is well proven in the eyes of the national team coach. Additionally, it should be noted that for 8 years the defenders of Atletico Mineiro did not show such amazing results.
During the period of professional activity, Rafael has several significant achievements obtained in the composition of the clubs for which he played:
- 2008 - the second place of the Brazilian championship in the “Gremio”;
- 2009, 2012 - second place in the RFPL, obtained with the red and white;
- 2014 - Atletico Mineiro wins Brazil Cup;
- 2015 - the second place in the Brazilian Championship and the Libertadores Cup.
Personal life
About his personal life a football player is not particularlyspreads. He tells only that he has a wife whom he loves very much. In addition, there are several known facts about parents. Raphael's father is a football player who played for the Botafogo club from Rio, and his mother is a housewife. Parents do not live together for more than 10 years, so he was raised by his father, who instilled in the boy a love of football from childhood.
According to Raphael, he first touched the ballat the age of three years and never left him. That is what caused the divorce of parents. Mom categorically did not want her son to follow in his father's footsteps. And the boy could not part with his favorite sport.
At the moment, Rafael Carioca has quitereal chances to get into the national team, especially since he is already enrolled in the symbolic. At least in terms of last year’s figures, he has every right to do so.
