Ivo Tiago dos Santos Rodrigues (born 30 March 1995) is a Portuguese professional

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who plays for

F.C. Famalicão Futebol Clube de Famalicão, commonly known as Famalicão, is a Portuguese association football, football club from Vila Nova de Famalicão. Founded on 21 August 1931, its senior team currently plays in the Primeira Liga, the top tier of Portugu ...

mainly as a

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. Formed at

Porto Porto or Oporto () is the second-largest city in Portugal, the capital of the Porto District, and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropol ...

where he made a single Taça da Liga appearance, he played in the Primeira Liga for

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, Arouca,

Paços de Ferreira Paços de Ferreira () is a city in the Porto District, in the north of Portugal. The population of the city in 2011 was 7491, while its municipality had 56,340 inhabitants, in an area of 70.99 km². Sometimes referred to as the ''Capital do ...

and Famalicão. He also represented Antwerp, winning the

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in 2020 Belgian Cup Final, 2020.

Club career

Porto

Born in the village of

Baguim do Monte Baguim do Monte is a civil parish in the municipality of Gondomar, Portugal. It was formed on July 11, 1985, by disintegration of territories of the parish of Rio Tinto. The population in 2011 was 14,102,Gondomar, Rodrigues joined FC Porto in 2005 at the age of 10. He played the remainder of his formative years with the club, also being loaned to Padroense F.C. who acted as the under-16 squad. Rodrigues made his professional debut with the reserves on 12 August 2013, coming on as a 60th-minute substitute for Mauro Caballero in a 3–2 away win against

S.C. Beira-Mar Sport Clube Beira-Mar () is a Portuguese sports club based in Aveiro, Portugal. Its football team currently plays in the Campeonato de Portugal, the fourth national level, having gained promotion by winning the Aveiro FA First Division 2018/19 ...

in the Segunda Liga championship. At the beginning of the 2014–15 season, he won the confidence of coach Luís Castro and became a starter, scoring a

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in a 7–0 home rout of

S.C. Olhanense Sporting Clube Olhanense () is a Portuguese sports club from Olhão, Algarve. Its football team was founded on 27 April 1912 and currently plays in the Campeonato de Portugal, the fourth tier of Portuguese football. It holds home matches at the ...

. In January 2015, after netting 11 times for the B side, Rodrigues was called up by first-team manager

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for a Taça da Liga match against C.F. União to be held on the 14th. He played the first half of an eventual 3–1 home victory, before leaving the pitch with an injury. On 2 February 2015, Rodrigues was loaned to

, playing his first competitive game against

C.F. Belenenses Clube de Futebol Os Belenenses, commonly known as Os Belenenses (), is a Portuguese sports club best known for its association football, football team. Founded in 1919, it is one of the oldest Portuguese sports clubs. It is based in the 25,000- ...

in the League Cup and making his first appearance in the Primeira Liga against the same opponent, in two matches separated by four days. For the 2015–16 campaign he went on loan at another top-flight side, F.C. Arouca, making his debut on 16 August 2015 by featuring the full 90 minutes in a 2–0 defeat of

Moreirense FC Moreirense Futebol Clube is a Portuguese professional football club based in Moreira de Cónegos, Guimarães Municipality, in Minho. Founded on 1 November 1938, it plays in the Liga Portugal 2, holding home games at Parque de Jogos Comendador Joa ...

. Rodrigues spent the next year at

F.C. Paços de Ferreira Futebol Clube Paços de Ferreira () is a Portuguese football club based in Paços de Ferreira, Porto district. Founded in 1950, the club competes in the Primeira Liga, holding home games at the 9,077-seater Estádio da Mata Real, a municipal s ...

of the same league, and on the same basis.

Antwerp

Rodrigues moved abroad for the same time on 29 June 2017 to Royal Antwerp F.C. of the

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, as the first player to transfer in a partnership between the two clubs. He scored three times in his loan season, including two on 27 August in his second match for a 4–3 win at K.V. Oostende, and in May 2018 he ended his 13-year association with Porto by signing a three-year deal with Belgium's oldest club. On 8 August 2019, on his debut in

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competitions, Rodrigues scored the only goal as his team beat

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at home in the first leg of the

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. Nearly a year later, he won the

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, coming on in the last moments of a 1–0 final victory over Club Brugge KV.

Famalicão

Rodrigues returned to Portugal on 15 January 2021, joining

on a three-and-a-half-year contract. He opened his account on 21 March with two goals in a 4–0 win at

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. On 1 October 2021, after a 2–1 home loss to neighbours Vitória de Guimarães, Rodrigues pushed the

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and swore in English at the French referee. He was

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, suspended for two games and fined €1,122.

International career

Rodrigues represented

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at the

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, playing all five games (only one complete) in an eventual quarter-final exit in New Zealand and scoring in a 4–0 group stage win over

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Career statistics

Honours

Royal Antwerp *

: 2019–20 Belgian Cup, 2019–20

References

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rodrigues, Ivo 1995 births Living people People from Gondomar, Portugal Sportspeople from Porto District Portuguese footballers Association football wingers Primeira Liga players Liga Portugal 2 players Padroense F.C. players FC Porto B players FC Porto players Vitória S.C. players F.C. Arouca players F.C. Paços de Ferreira players F.C. Famalicão players Belgian Pro League players Royal Antwerp F.C. players Portugal youth international footballers Portuguese expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Belgium Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Belgium