Esportivo Rio
CITY
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
STADIUM
Maracanã Stadium
FOUNDED
2022
PLAYING SQUAD
| # | Player | Position | Age | Goals | Appearances |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Claudio Salgado dos Santos | Goalkeeper | 23 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | Rogerio Cunha Camara | Right Back | 25 | 0 | 36 |
| 3 | Carlos Barreto Hashimoto | Left Back | 24 | 1 | 33 |
| 4 | Norberto Vaz da Fonseca | Centre Back | 27 | 3 | 34 |
| 5 |  Altair Silveira | Left Centre Back | 26 | 2 | 32 |
| 6 | Junior Fontes Paim | Defensive Midfield | 25 | 0 | 31 |
| 7 | Diogo Costa Araujo | Attacking Midfield | 26 | 7 | 34 |
| 8 |  Vic Heymans | Centre Midfield | 28 | 2 | 24 |
| 9 | Rodrigo Menezes Machado | Centre Forward | 26 | 27 | 32 |
| 10 | Caua Lima Guedes | Attacking Midfield | 22 | 14 | 38 |
| 11 |  Jose Caceres | Left Wing | 25 | 3 | 35 |
| 12 | Francisco Mendes Sanches | Left Back | 25 | 0 | 24 |
| 13 | Vinicius Pires Cordeiro | Goalkeeper | 27 | 1 | 37 |
| 14 |  Nicolas Beaulieu | Centre Midfield | 27 | 0 | 3 |
| 15 |  Fukuda Kouhei | Right Wing | 26 | 0 | 10 |
| 16 | Americo Mendonca | Defensive Midfield | 32 | 0 | 14 |
| 17 |  Iker Romaguer | Centre Midfield | 26 | 1 | 23 |
| 18 | Luciano Nazario Bastos | Right Centre Back | 35 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 |  Juan Riveros | Left Centre Back | 25 | 0 | 2 |
| 20 | Sebastiao Aguiar Velho | Right Wing | 26 | 1 | 37 |
| 21 | Xabier Ballester | Centre Forward | 26 | 13 | 36 |
| 22 | Timoteo Ribeiro | Right Back | 21 | 0 | 20 |
| 23 | Caio Cabral Goncalves | Left Wing | 27 | 2 | 29 |
| 24 | Milton Falcao Nakata | Right Centre Back | 30 | 2 | 16 |
| 25 | Teodoro Freitas Alves | Goalkeeper | 35 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | Emerson Padilha Belchior | Goalkeeper | 19 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 | Vicente Assis Boaventura | Right Back | 19 | 0 | 0 |
| 32 | Mario Guerra Serra | Left Back | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | Valdomiro Carvalho Braga | Left Centre Back | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| 34 | Vinicius Cerqueira Ribeiro | Centre Forward | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| 35 | Mauro Paz Duarte | Defensive Midfield | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| 36 | Sebastiao Marques Ximenes | Right Centre Back | 19 | 0 | 0 |
| 37 | Fabricio Linhares Prado | Attacking Midfield | 18 | 0 | 1 |
| 38 | Luis Gimenez | Right Wing | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| 39 | Nicolas Torres | Centre Midfield | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| 40 | Santino Venegas | Left Wing | 19 | 0 | 0 |
STAFF
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| IAGO SARAIVA LEAL | Head Coach |
| IGOR CERQUEIRA SIMOES | Assistant Coach |
| REGINALDO BRAGA CERQUEIRA | Assistant Coach |
| BRUNO SANCHES ALVES | Goalkeeper Coach |
| ANGELO YAMADA BELCHIOR | Fitness Trainer |
| ARTHUR REZENDE PESSOA | Head of Analysis |
| THIAGO RIBEIRO GOMES | Sports Medicine |
| LUCIO MARTINS PINTO | Physio |
| RENATO SILVEIRA VAZ | Assistant Physio |
| VALDOMIRO GUEDES FERREIRA | Assistant Physio |
| IVO SANTOS PIMENTEL | U-20 Coach |
| TEODORO MACEDO MAGALHAES | U-20 Assistant Coach |
PLAYING SQUAD
Each GPFL playing squad contains 36 players:
- 25 senior players.
- 11 under-20 players.
TECHNICAL STAFF
A head coach along with a full technical team supports each GPFL club.
MATCHES
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