Maycon de Andrade Barberan (born 15 July 1997), known as just Maycon, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

for Brazilian side

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, on loan from Ukrainian side

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Career

Early life

Maycon began playing for

academy at the age of twelve and had a very successful campaign. He won the 2014 and 2015 U20 Campeonato Paulista, 2014 U20 Campeonato Brasileiro, the 2015

Copa São Paulo de Futebol Júnior The Copa São Paulo de Futebol Júnior (or ''São Paulo Youth Football Cup'', in English), also known as Copa São Paulo de Juniores (''São Paulo Youth Cup'') and Copinha (''Little Cup''), is a cup competition played by Brazilian under-20 associ ...

, including scoring the winning goal during the final.

Corinthians

Maycon made his professional debut on 11 February 2016, as he started on Corinthians 2–1 victory against Capivariano at

Arena Corinthians Neo Química Arena, previously known as Arena Corinthians, is a sports stadium located in São Paulo, Brazil, owned, operated and used by Corinthians. It has a seating capacity of , making it the fifth-largest stadium used by teams in the t ...

. He scored his first goal in a 3–0 away win against

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on March 13.

Ponte Preta (loan)

On 14 July, Maycon was loaned to fellow Série A club Ponte Preta.

Shakhtar Donetsk

On 17 June 2018 Maycon was transferred to

Ukrainian Premier League The Ukrainian Premier League ( uk, "Українська Прем'єр-ліга", ''Ukrayinska Premier Liha'') or UPL is the highest division of Ukrainian annual football championship. As the Vyshcha Liha ( uk, Вища ліга, ''Top League'') ...

club

and signed 5-year contract.

Corinthians (loan)

On 31 March 2022, Shakhtar Donetsk confirmed that Maycon had joined

on loan until the end of 2022.

Career statistics

Honours

;Corinthians *

Campeonato Brasileiro Série A The Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (; English: "Brazilian Championship A Series"), commonly referred to as the Brasileirão (; English: "Big Brazilian"), and also known as Brasileirão Assaí due to sponsorship with Assaí Atacadista, is a Br ...

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Campeonato Paulista The Campeonato Paulista Série A1, commonly known as Campeonato Paulista, nicknamed Paulistão, is the top-flight professional association football, football league in the Brazilian States of Brazil, state of São Paulo (state), São Paulo. Run b ...

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;Shakhtar Donetsk *

: 2018–19, 2019–20 *

Ukrainian Cup The Ukrainian Cup ( uk, Кубок України) is an association football national knockout cup competition run by the Ukrainian Association of Football. The competition is conducted almost exclusively among professional clubs. Since the 2003� ...

: 2018–19 *

Ukrainian Super Cup The Ukrainian Super Cup ( uk , Суперкубок України) is an association football game of the Ukrainian Premier League in traditional super cup format that acts as the grand-opening for every new football (soccer), football competiti ...

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References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Maycon 1997 births Living people Brazilian men's footballers Brazilian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Ukraine Sport Club Corinthians Paulista players Associação Atlética Ponte Preta players Footballers from São Paulo Men's association football midfielders FC Shakhtar Donetsk players Ukrainian Premier League players Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Ukraine