Emerson Santana Deocleciano (born 27 July 1999), sometimes known as Baiano, is a Brazilian professional

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who plays as a

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for

Rīgas FS Rīgas Futbola Skola (Latvian for ''Riga's football school'') is a Latvian women's association football, football club from Riga. The women play in the top level Latvian Women's League and won the championship in 2013 and 2014. They won their thi ...

Career

Deocleciano started his career with Vila Nova, playing for them in the

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in 2018. In June 2019, he joined

Croatian First Football League The Hrvatska nogometna liga () ( en, Croatian football league), also known as HNL or for sponsorship reasons the SuperSport HNL, is the top Croatian professional football (soccer), football league competition, established in 1992. Previously, i ...

side

NK Lokomotiva Nogometni klub Lokomotiva Zagreb ( en, Lokomotiva Zagreb Football Club), commonly known as Lokomotiva Zagreb or simply Lokomotiva, is a Croatian professional association football, football club based in Zagreb. It competes in the Croatian First ...

on an initial one-year loan deal. On 4 August 2019, he made his professional debut as a substitute in a 3–0 loss to

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. Deocleciano's deal with Lokomotiva was later made permanent and in February 2020, he was loaned out to Virsliga side

Career statistics

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Deocleciano, Emerson 1999 births Living people Brazilian men's footballers Men's association football forwards Vila Nova Futebol Clube players NK Lokomotiva Zagreb players FK RFS players Croatian Football League players Latvian Higher League players Brazilian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Croatia Expatriate men's footballers in Latvia Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Croatia Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Latvia