Elliot Ragomo (born 28 May 1990) is a

futsal Futsal is a football-based game played on a hardcourt, hard court smaller than a football pitch, and mainly indoors. It has similarities to five-a-side football and Indoor soccer, indoor football. Futsal is played between two teams of five players ...

player from the

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. He plays as a defender for

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

ian club

Minas Tênis Clube Minas Tênis Clube (short, just ''Minas'') is a social, recreational and sports club from Belo Horizonte, Brazil. By 2013, it has more than 73,000 members. Its patrimony comprises two urban units, the Minas I and Minas II, and two country units, ...

in the

Liga Nacional de Futsal The Liga Nacional de Futsal (LNF) is the premier futsal league in Brazil, and was created in 1996 with the purpose of setting up a championship with the best futsal teams of the country, corresponding to the Brazilian Football Championship Séri ...

and the

Solomon Islands national futsal team The Solomon Islands national futsal team, nicknamed Kurukuru, represents the Solomon Islands in international futsal competitions and is controlled by the Solomon Islands Football Federation. It is one of the strongest teams in Oceania, but fares ...

. Ragomo is the first futsal player from the Solomon Islands who plays professionally.

Club career

Ragomo came through the youth ranks of Marist and made his debut for the club in 2015. In 2017 he transferred to Brazilian side

International career

Ragomo made his debut at the age of 18 for the

during the

2008 FIFA Futsal World Cup The 2008 FIFA Futsal World Cup was the sixth edition of the FIFA Futsal World Cup, the quadrennial international futsal championship contested by the men's national teams of the member associations of FIFA. It was the first tournament to use th ...

in a 10–2 loss against

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. He has also played for and captained the Kurukuru in the three World Cups that followed.

References

1990 births Living people Futsal defenders Solomon Islands men's footballers Solomon Islands men's international footballers Men's association football forwards Solomon Islands men's futsal players Marist F.C. players Minas Tênis Clube players {{Solomons-footy-bio-stub