Personal information | |||
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Full name | Rafael de Andrade Bittencourt Pinheiro | ||
Date of birth | [1] | 3 March 1982||
Place of birth | São Paulo, Brazil | ||
Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) [1] | ||
Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
Youth career | |||
1995 | Nacional-SP | ||
1996 | Corinthians | ||
1997–2000 | Juventus-SP [2] | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2001–2005 | Santos | 6 | (0) |
2005–2007 | São Bento | 23 | (0) |
2007–2016 | Verona | 282 | (0) |
2016–2020 | Cagliari | 38 | (0) |
2020–2021 | Spezia | 3 | (0) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league onlyand correct as of 17:02, 2 June 2021 (UTC) |
Rafael de Andrade Bittencourt Pinheiro (born 3 March 1982) [3] simply known as Rafael, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper, most recently for Serie A club Spezia. [4] He also holds an Italian passport. [5]
He left Brazil for Italy after playing 17 (out of 19) matches in 2007 Campeonato Paulista for Esporte Clube São Bento, ahead of Maurício Assoline. He was an understudy of Júlio Sérgio and Fábio Costa at Santos FC.
In Verona, after missing only three games (of a possible 136) in four seasons of Lega Pro, the third highest football league in Italy, Rafael played a crucial role in helping his team reach the 2010–11 Lega Pro Division One playoffs and win them, to return to Serie B after a four-year absence. [6] Two seasons later, the Brazilian goalkeeper and his teammates of Verona reach the second place and were promoted to Serie A, with Rafael that impose itself as the best goalkeeper in the junior category (only 29 goals conceded in 40 games). [7]
Rafael was successively confirmed as first choice keeper for the club's Serie A comeback season in 2013, despite the signing of Bulgarian international Nikolay Mihaylov, playing 37 games out of 38 during the full championship. [1]
In 2016 he was sold to Cagliari, with Marco Fossati moved to opposite direction. [8] Cagliari also loaned out its backup goalkeeper Simone Colombi in the same week.
On 17 September 2020, Rafael joined Spezia on a free transfer. [9]
Team | Season | Domestic League | Domestic Cup | European Competition1 | Other Tournaments2 | Total | |||||
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Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Santos | 2001 | 0 | −0 | 0 | −0 | – | – | 0 | −0 | ||
2002 | 0 | −0 | 0 | −0 | – | – | 0 | −0 | |||
2003 | 8 | −8 | 0 | −0 | – | – | 8 | −8 | |||
2004 | 0 | −0 | 0 | −0 | – | – | 0 | −0 | |||
2005 | 0 | −0 | 0 | −0 | – | – | 0 | −0 | |||
Total | 8 | -8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -0 | 8 | -8 | |
São Bento | 2006 | 0 | −0 | 0 | −0 | – | – | 0 | −0 | ||
2007 | 0 | −0 | 0 | −0 | – | – | 0 | −0 | |||
Total | 0 | -0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -0 | 0 | -0 | |
Hellas Verona | 2007–08 | 34 | −41 | 1 | −1 | – | 2 | −1 | 37 | −43 | |
2008–09 | 34 | −32 | 2 | −3 | – | – | 36 | −35 | |||
2009–10 | 31 | −18 | 4 | −5 | – | 4 | −3 | 39 | −26 | ||
2010–11 | 34 | −30 | 2 | −2 | – | 4 | −2 | 40 | −34 | ||
2011–12 | 40 | −39 | 3 | −7 | – | 2 | −3 | 45 | −49 | ||
2012–13 | 40 | −29 | 4 | −6 | – | – | 44 | −35 | |||
2013–14 | 37 | −63 | 1 | −0 | – | – | 38 | −63 | |||
2014–15 | 20 | −35 | 2 | −6 | – | – | 22 | −41 | |||
2015–16 | 12 | −18 | 1 | −1 | – | – | 13 | −19 | |||
Total | 282 | -305 | 20 | -31 | 0 | 0 | 12 | -9 | 314 | -345 | |
Cagliari | 2015–16 | 1 | −1 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 1 | −1 | ||
2016–17 | 21 | −32 | 1 | −3 | – | – | 22 | −35 | |||
2017–18 | 10 | −11 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 10 | −11 | |||
2018–19 | 0 | 0 | 1 | −1 | – | – | 1 | −1 | |||
2019–20 | 6 | −11 | 1 | −0 | – | – | 7 | −11 | |||
Total | 38 | -55 | 3 | -4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 41 | -59 | |
Spezia | 2020–21 | 3 | −5 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 3 | −5 | ||
Career total | 331 | -273 | 23 | -35 | 0 | 0 | 12 | -9 | 366 | -417 |
1European competitions include the UEFA Champions League.
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