Renato Cardoso Porto Neto (born 27 September 1991) is a Brazilian professional

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who plays for Maltese club

Sirens F.C. Sirens Football Club is a professional football club from the north-western seaside village of San Pawl il-Baħar in Malta. Founded in 1968, they currently compete in the Maltese Premier League. Club history Sirens FC was first known as St P ...

as a

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Club career

Sporting CP

Born in

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, Neto started his career in Academia Catarinense de Futebol, a small team based in Santa Catarina where he was spotted by

Sporting CP Sporting Clube de Portugal, founded Sporting Club de Portugal (), otherwise referred to as Sporting CP, often known abroad as Sporting Lisbon , is a Portuguese professional sports club based in Lisbon. It is best known for the professional foot ...

at the age of 16, going on to be part of the club's junior teams that won three national championships in a row. Neto made his debut for the ''Lions first team on 24 May 2009, featuring four minutes in a 3–1 home win over

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after replacing compatriot

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. His second

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appearance came one year later, against Leixões SC (one minute played). After graduating from Sporting's academy, Neto was loaned to

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in Belgium alongside teammate

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. In his only full season in the Pro League, he scored four goals in 36 matches (32 starts) as the team finished in ninth position. In late December 2011, as Sporting were facing an injury crisis in midfield, Neto was recalled by the club's manager

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. In the ensuing summer he was loaned again, now to Hungary's

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, leaving for

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in the following

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also on loan.

Gent

Gent acquired Neto on a permanent basis for the 2014–15 campaign. On 21 May 2015, through a

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, he was one of two players on target as his team defeated

Standard Liège Royal Standard de Liège, commonly referred to as Standard Liège (; nl, Standard Luik ; german: Standard Lüttich ) or simply Standard in Belgium, is a Belgian professional football club based in the city of Liège. They are one of the most ...

2–0 at home to be crowned champions for the first time in their history. Neto nearly completed a transfer to newly-promoted

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club

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in 2017, but failed a medical. He missed the entire 2017–18 due to a serious knee injury.

Oostende

On 20 May 2019, Neto joined K.V. Oostende on a one-year contract.

Club statistics

Honours

Gent *

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: 2014–15 *

Belgian Super Cup The Belgian Super Cup ( nl, Belgische Supercup, ; french: Supercoupe de Belgique; german: Belgischer Fußball-Super Cup), ''Pro League Supercup'', is a Belgian club competition played as a single match between the Belgian First Division A champion ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Neto, Renato 1991 births Living people Sportspeople from Bahia Brazilian footballers Association football midfielders Primeira Liga players Sporting CP footballers Belgian Pro League players Belgian First Division B players Cercle Brugge K.S.V. players K.A.A. Gent players K.V. Oostende players K.M.S.K. Deinze players Nemzeti Bajnokság I players Fehérvár FC players Maltese Premier League players Sirens F.C. players Brazilian expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Portugal Expatriate footballers in Belgium Expatriate footballers in Hungary Expatriate footballers in Malta Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Belgium Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Hungary Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Malta