Mauro Jaqueson Júnior Ferreira dos Santos (born 6 May 1999), commonly known as Mauro Júnior, is a Brazilian professional

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who plays as a

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or a left winger for

PSV Eindhoven Philips Sport Vereniging (; en, Philips Sports Association ), abbreviated as PSV and internationally known as PSV Eindhoven (), is a Dutch sports club from Eindhoven, Netherlands. It is best known for its professional football department, whi ...

Club career

On 23 June 2017, Mauro Júnior signed a five-year contract with PSV until 2022. He was sent out on a season-long loan to fellow Eredivisie club

Heracles Almelo Heracles Almelo is a Dutch professional football club based in Almelo, founded in 1903. The club has won the Dutch national title twice, in 1927 and 1941. Heracles won the Eerste Divisie title during the 2004–05 season, gaining promotion to th ...

for the 2019–20 season. On 20 September 2019, he scored a brace as Heracles defeated local rivals

FC Twente Football Club Twente () is a Dutch professional football club from the city of Enschede, sometimes known internationally as Twente Enschede. The club was formed in 1965 by the merger of 1926 Dutch champions Sportclub Enschede with Enschedese Bo ...

by a score of 3–2. On 24 September 2020, Mauro Júnior scored his side's second goal in a 5–1 away win over

NŠ Mura Nogometna šola Mura ( en, Mura Football School), commonly referred to as NŠ Mura or simply Mura, is a Slovenian football team, playing in the town of Murska Sobota. Founded in 2012, the team currently plays in the Slovenian PrvaLiga, the top ...

in the third qualifying round of the

UEFA Europa League The UEFA Europa League (abbreviated as UEL, or sometimes, UEFA EL), formerly the UEFA Cup, is an annual football club competition organised since 1971 by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) for eligible European football clubs. It ...

. On 2 July 2021, PSV extended Mauro Júnior's contract until the summer of 2025.

International career

Mauro Júnior represented Brazil at the

2015 South American Under-17 Football Championship The 2015 South American Under-17 Football Championship ( es, Campeonato Sudamericano Sub-17 Paraguay 2015, pt-BR, Campeonato Sul-Americano Sub-17 Paraguay 2015) was the 16th edition of the biennial international youth football tournament organiz ...

. He came on as a substitute for Marco Túlio in the final, a 1–0 loss to

Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...

Career statistics

Club

Honours

PSV *

KNVB Cup The KNVB Beker (; en, KNVB Cup), branded as the TOTO KNVB Beker for sponsorship reasons, is a competition in the Netherlands organized by the Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB) since 1898. It was based on the format of the English FA Cup. Ou ...

: 2021–22 *

Johan Cruyff Shield The Johan Cruyff Shield (, ) is a football trophy in the Netherlands named after Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff, also often referred to as the Dutch Super Cup. The winner is decided in one match only, played by the winner of the national footbal ...

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at the PSV Eindhoven website * 1999 births Living people Brazilian men's footballers Brazil men's youth international footballers Men's association football forwards Desportivo Brasil players PSV Eindhoven players Heracles Almelo players Eredivisie players Eerste Divisie players Jong PSV players Brazilian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands Footballers from São Paulo (state) {{Brazil-footy-forward-1990s-stub