Digão (footballer, born 1993)

Digão
Personal information
Full name Rodrigo Longo Freitas
Date of birth (1993-03-13) 13 March 1993 (age 31)
Place of birth Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Right-back
Youth career
2001–2013 Flamengo
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2012–2014 Flamengo 7 (0)
2014 → América-RN (loan) 0 (0)
2015 Volta Redonda 1 (0)
2016 Portuguesa 14 (0)
2016–2019 Adanaspor 63 (1)
2021 Bangu 9 (0)
2021 Santa Cruz 4 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21:44, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

Rodrigo Longo Freitas (born 13 March 1993), commonly known as Digão, is a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a right-back.[1]

Career

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Digão joined Flamengo's youth setup in 2001, aged only eight. In 2011, after Rafael Galhardo's call-up to Brazil under-20s, he was promoted to the main squad by manager Vanderlei Luxemburgo and acted mainly as a backup to Léo Moura.

Digão made his senior debut on 21 January 2012, in a 4–0 Campeonato Carioca home routing of Bonsucesso.[2] On 18 June of the following year he renewed his contract, signing until the end of 2014.[3]

On 27 June 2014, after being rarely used, Digão was loaned to América-RN until the end of the year.[4] He made no appearances for the side, and was subsequently released by his parent club when his loan expired.

In October 2015 Digão moved to Volta Redonda.[5] On 1 December of that year he joined Portuguesa.[6]

References

  1. ^ Adanaspor, Digao ile sözleşme imzaladı‚ goal.com, 10 June 2016
  2. ^ Garotada faz bonito, e Fla estreia com goleada sobre o Bonsucesso (Kids do well, and Fla debut with thrashing over Bonsucesso); Globo Esporte, 21 January 2012 (in Portuguese)
  3. ^ Flamengo renova com lateral-direito Digão até fim de 2014 (Flamengo renew with right-back Digão until the end of 2014); Extra, 18 June 2013 (in Portuguese)
  4. ^ Flamengo empresta lateral-direito Digão ao América-RN (Flamengo loan right-back Digão to América-RN); O Estado de S. Paulo, 2 July 2014 (in Portuguese)
  5. ^ Volta Redonda apresenta três reforços para sequencia da Copa Rio (Volta Redonda present three additions to the remaining of Copa Rio); FFERJ, 6 October 2015 (in Portuguese)
  6. ^ Portuguesa anuncia o lateral-direito Digão, revelado pelo Flamengo (Portuguesa announce right-back Digão, graduated at Flamengo); Globo Esporte, 3 December 2015 (in Portuguese)