Rodolfo Dantas Bispo (born 23 October 1982) is a
Brazilian football
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coach and a former player who played
center-back
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Centre-backs are usually positioned in pairs, with one full-back on either s ...
or
central midfielder
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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 ...
. He is an assistant coach with the Russian club
FC Akhmat Grozny
Republican Football Club Akhmat ( ce, футболан клуб Ахмат Соьлжа-ГӀала; russian: Республиканский футбольный клуб Ахмат Грозный), commonly known as Akhmat Grozny, is a Russian ...
.
Career
Club
Rodolfo joined
Fluminense
Fluminense Football Club (), known as Fluminense, is a Brazilian sports club best known for its professional football team that competes in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, the first tier of Brazilian football and the Campeonato Carioca, ...
of
Rio de Janeiro
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, a traditional rival state in football. While at Fluminense, he played against future teammate
Kléber at
Copa Sudamericana
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.
Rodolfo joined
Dynamo Kyiv
Football Club Dynamo Kyiv (, ) is a Ukrainian professional Association football, football club based in Kyiv. Founded in 1927 as a Kyivan football team of republican branch of the bigger Soviet Union, Soviet Dynamo Sports Club, Dynamo Sports Soc ...
in July 2004.
Rodolfo joined
Lokomotiv Moscow
FC Lokomotiv Moscow (''FC Lokomotiv Moskva'', russian: link=no, Футбольный клуб "Локомотив" Москва, ) is a Russian professional football club based in Moscow
Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москв ...
in January 2007.
After
Bilyaletdinov's departure to
Everton, Rodolfo took his role and was appointed
Lokomotiv's new
captain
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.
On 6 March 2015, Rodolfo joined
FC Terek Grozny
Republican Football Club Akhmat ( ce, футболан клуб Ахмат Соьлжа-ГӀала; russian: Республиканский футбольный клуб Ахмат Грозный), commonly known as Akhmat Grozny, is a Russian ...
.
On 27 May 2019, FC Akhmat Grozny announced the retirement of Rodolfo as a player and that he will join club's coaching staff.
International
Rodolfo is capped for Brazil in
2004 CONMEBOL Men Pre-Olympic Tournament
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.
Style of Play
Rodolfo's style of play resembles that of his hero,
Brazilian captain
Lucio
Lucio is an Italian and Spanish male given name derived from the Latin name ''Lucius''. In Portuguese, the given name is accented Lúcio.
Lucio is also an Italian surname.
Given name
* Lúcio (Lucimar Ferreira da Silva) (born 1978), Brazilian f ...
. As with Lucio style, Rodolfo also contributes in attack by frequently making long runs into the opponent's half using his technique and speed to full effect. Rodolfo is not shy in front of the net and has scored many important goals for
Lokomotiv. He also possesses a good long shot.
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Career statistics
Club
Notes
Honours
Fluminense
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Campeonato Carioca
The Campeonato Carioca (Carioca Championship), officially known as Campeonato Estadual do Rio de Janeiro (Port., Rio de Janeiro State Championship), was started in 1906 and is the annual football championship in the state of Rio de Janeiro, B ...
:
2002
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Dynamo Kyiv
*
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 ...
(2):
2004–05,
2005–06
*
Ukrainian Super Cup
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(2):
2005
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,
2006
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Lokomotiv Moscow
*
Russian Cup (1):
2006–07
References
External links
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Brazilian FA database
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eng.fclm.ru*
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1982 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Santos, São Paulo
Brazilian footballers
Brazilian expatriate footballers
Fluminense FC players
FC Dynamo Kyiv players
FC Lokomotiv Moscow players
Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense players
CR Vasco da Gama players
Association football defenders
Expatriate footballers in Ukraine
Expatriate footballers in Russia
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A players
Ukrainian Premier League players
Russian Premier League players
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Ukraine
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Russia
FC Akhmat Grozny players