Personal information | |||
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Full name | Rayan Lucas Marques de Souza | ||
Date of birth | 3 January 2005 | ||
Place of birth | Brazil | ||
Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Sporting (on loan from Flamengo) | ||
Number | 60 | ||
Youth career | |||
–2025 | Flamengo | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2023– | Flamengo | 8 | (0) |
2025– | → Sporting (loan) | 0 | (0) |
2025– | → Sporting B (loan) | 4 | (0) |
International career‡ | |||
2024– | Brazil U20 | 2 | (0) |
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 18 September 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 5 June 2025 |
Rayan Lucas Marques de Souza (born 3 January 2005) is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Sporting on loan from Flamengo.
As a youth player, Lucas joined the youth academy of Brazilian side Flamengo at the age of eleven [1] and was promoted to the club's senior team in 2023.
Ahead of the 2025–26 season, he was sent on loan to Portuguese side Sporting. [2]
Lucas is a Brazil youth international. On 5 September 2024, he debuted for the Brazil national under-20 football team during a 2–1 home friendly win over the Mexico national under-20 football team.
Lucas plays as a midfielder and is right-footed. Brazilian news website Globo Esporte wrote in 2024 that he is a "classic number 5—with good passing, technical ability, and immense physical strength". [3]