Rodrigo Bonifácio da Rocha (born 4 December 1985 in

Taboão da Serra Taboão da Serra is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. It is part of the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo. The population is 293,652 (2020 est.) in an area of 20.39 km². It is the second smallest city in area in the São ...

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), nicknamed Tiuí, is a Brazilian

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who plays for Clube Atlético Barra da Tijuca as a

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Football career

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, Tiuí broke into the first team at the age of 18. In his first full season, he scored five goals in 18 Série A appearances, but only managed to find the net on three occasions the following campaign, having appeared in 29 league matches. In

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, Tiuí went on loan to

Esporte Clube Noroeste Esporte Clube Noroeste, commonly referred to as Noroeste, is a Brazilian professional association football club based in Bauru, São Paulo. The team competes in the Campeonato Paulista Série A2, the second tier of the São Paulo state football ...

from the Série C. He had another loan spell the same year with

Santos FC Santos Futebol Clube (), commonly known simply as Santos or Santos FC and nicknamed the ''Peixe'' (; "fish"), is a Brazilian sports club based in Vila Belmiro, a '' bairro'' in the city of Santos. It is also the team with the most goals i ...

, thus returning to the top level. Tiuí signed with

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in January 2008, with the club buying half of the player's rights from

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(his rights were in fact held by an investing company). His debut for the ''Lions'' came on 3 February in a 0–1 away loss to

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; in one rare start, in the Portuguese classic against

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at home, he provided the

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's goal as the

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finished 1–1 at the ''

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''. Tiuí scored his only

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goal on 11 May 2008, against

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for the season's last matchday, with the 2–1 home win guaranteeing the second place and a direct qualifying position for the

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. A week later, he came from the bench at the beginning of

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to net twice in the team's 2–0 final victory over

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for the

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. After an unassuming 2008–09 – only five matches in 79 minutes of play – Sporting exchanged 50% of its rights on Tiuí for the remaining 50% of Pedro Silva. On 20 September, the former signed a three-month contract with

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and, in January of the following year, the

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ans loaned him to Clube Atlético Goianiense; in August, he left for Russia's

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 ...

in a 3+2 deal. From then onwards, Tiuí competed in several levels of Brazilian football, with little impact. He also played in

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, joining FC Gifu in early 2015 and switching to Fukushima United FC the following year.

Honours

Sporting *

: 2007–08 *

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Atlético Goianiense *

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: 2010

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tiui, Rodrigo 1985 births Living people Footballers from São Paulo (state) Brazilian footballers Association football forwards Campeonato Brasileiro Série A players Campeonato Brasileiro Série B players Campeonato Brasileiro Série C players Fluminense FC players Esporte Clube Noroeste players Santos FC players Club Athletico Paranaense players Atlético Clube Goianiense players Clube Náutico Capibaribe players Criciúma Esporte Clube players Brasiliense Futebol Clube players Primeira Liga players Sporting CP footballers Russian Premier League players FC Akhmat Grozny players J2 League players J3 League players FC Gifu players Fukushima United FC players Brazilian expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Portugal Expatriate footballers in Russia Expatriate footballers in Japan Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Russia Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Japan