Rodrigo Tiuí

Rodrigo Tiuí
Personal information
Full name Rodrigo Bonifácio da Rocha
Date of birth (1985-12-04) 4 December 1985
Place of birth Taboão da Serra, Brazil
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 9 12 in)
Playing position Forward
Club information
Current team
Fukushima United
Number 22
Youth career
2001–2002 Fluminense
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2003–2007 Fluminense 73 (11)
2006Noroeste (loan) 20 (8)
2006Santos (loan) 29 (6)
2008–2009 Sporting CP 14 (3)
2009 Atlético Paranaense 4 (0)
2010 Atlético Goianiense 11 (3)
2010–2012 Terek Grozny 16 (1)
2012Náutico (loan) 1 (0)
2012 Criciúma 6 (1)
2013 Brasiliense
2015 FC Gifu 18 (1)
2015Fukushima United (loan) 8 (1)
2016– Fukushima United

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 16 March 2013.

† Appearances (goals)

Rodrigo Bonifácio da Rocha, nicknamed Tiuí (born 4 December 1985 in Taboão da Serra, São Paulo), is a Brazilian footballer as a forward.

Football career

At Fluminense Football Club, Tiuí broke into the first team at the age of 18. In his first full season he scored five goals in 18 games, but only managed to find the net on three occasions the following campaign, having appeared in 28 league matches.

The next season Tiuí went on loan to Esporte Clube Noroeste, having another loan spell the same year with Santos Futebol Clube for which he netted six times.

Tiuí moved to Sporting Clube de Portugal in January 2008, with the team buying half of the player's rights from C.A. Rentistas (his rights were in fact held by an investing company). His debut for the Lions came on 3 February in a 0–1 away loss against C.F. Os Belenenses; in one rare start, in the Portuguese classic against S.L. Benfica at home, he provided the assist in Simon Vukčević's goal as the derby finished 1–1.

On 11 May 2008 Tiuí scored his only league goal, against Boavista FC, in Sporting's last game of the season, with the win guaranteeing the second place and a direct qualifying position for the UEFA Champions League. A week later, he came from the bench at the beginning of extra time to net twice in the team's 2–0 Portuguese Cup final victory over F.C. Porto.

After an unassuming 2008–09 – only five matches in 79 minutes of play – Sporting exchanged its 50% rights for the player for the remaining 50% of Pedro Silva.[1] On 20 September Tiuí signed a three-month contract with Clube Atlético Paranaense and, in January of the following year, the Uruguayan club loaned him to Clube Atlético Goianiense;[2] in August he left for Russian team FC Terek Grozny, in a 3+2 contract.[3]

Honours

Sporting
Atlético Goianiense

References

  1. "Relatório e contas 2009/2010 aprovado em Assembleia Geral de 29 de Setembro de 2010" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Sporting CP. 30 September 2010. Retrieved 9 November 2010.
  2. "Rodrigo Tiuí e Saavedra são apresentados no Dragão" [Rodrigo Tiuí and Saavedra presented at the Dragão] (in Portuguese). Clube Atlético Paranaense. 7 January 2010. Retrieved 9 November 2010.
  3. "Терек" подписал контракт с Рикардо Тиуи. [Terek signed a contract with Rodrigo Tiuí] (in Russian). FC Terek Grozny. 27 August 2010. Retrieved 9 November 2010.

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