Rodrigo da Costa (born 16 August 1993), better known simply as Rodrigo, is a Brazilian

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player who plays as a

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. He won the 2017 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup representing

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and claimed the Silver Shoe (second highest scorer) award at the competition; he has also appeared at two other World Cups (

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CBSB. 1 March 2020. Retrieved 13 October 2020. Rodrigo is considered one of the world's top players, as recognised at the 2019

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awards.

Biography

Rodrigo grew up playing casual beach soccer on

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. He joined his first competitive club, Botafogo, in 2011, aged 18. Three years later in 2014, aged 21, Rodrgio was called up to the Brazilian national team for the first time and was subsequently picked for the 2015 World Cup squad.“With beach soccer I can show the kids of the favela that it is possible to follow a good path in life”

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. 14 January 2020. Retrieved 13 October 2020. He particularly came to prominence in 2016, aged 23, when he won MVP awards in the

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and won the Rising Star commendation at the

awards ceremony. The next year, he inspired Brazil to their 2017 World Cup victory in the

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, winning the Silver Shoe (second highest scorer) award with nine goals. In 2017, Rodrigo also joined top Russian club,

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. As of 2020, he has scored 150 goals in 112 games for the club in all competitions. He cemented his place as one of the world's best players when he was named as one of the world's top three players and part of the team of the year at the 2019 Beach Soccer Stars ceremony. Rodrigo now sits just outside the top 10 of Brazil's all-time top scorers.Top scorers
CBSB. 1 March 2020. Retrieved 13 October 2020. Rodrigo worked in a stationery shop before pursuing beach soccer. He credits his parents for teaching discipline and respect. As of 2020, he lives in his homeland with his father; he himself is a father.

Statistics

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Honours

The following is a selection, not an exhaustive list, of the major honours Rodrigo has achieved:

Country

FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup The FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup is an international beach soccer competition contested by the national teams of the member associations of FIFA, the sport's global governing body. The tournament was preceded by the ''Beach Soccer World Champions ...

**Winner (1):

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**Winner (1):

* Intercontinental Cup **Winner (3):

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* CONMEBOL qualifiers for the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup **Winner (3):

Copa América The Copa América ( en, America Cup) or CONMEBOL Copa América, known until 1975 as the South American Football Championship (''Campeonato Sudamericano de Fútbol'' in Spanish and ''Campeonato Sul-Americano de Futebol'' in Portuguese), is the t ...

**Winner (2):

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* Mundialito **Winner (1): 2017 *

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**Winner (1): 2019

Club

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Euro Winners Cup The Euro Winners Cup (EWC) is an annual, continental beach soccer club competition contested between top-division European teams; the clubs that are their country's national league/cup champions (and, for some nations, one or more runners-up) fro ...

**Winner (2):

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**Runner-up (2): 2015, 2018 *

**Winner (2): 2018, 2019 **Runner-up (1): 2017 *Russian Cup **Winner (3): 2017, 2018, 2019

Individual

(1): **Silver Shoe: 2017 *

(2): **Rising Star: 2016 **World dream team: 2019 * Intercontinental Cup (2): **Best player: 2017, 2018 * CONMEBOL qualifiers for the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup (1): **Top scorer: 2019 *

(1): **Best player: 2018 * Mundialito (2): **Best player: 2017 **Top scorer: 2017 *

(1): **Best player: 2016 *

(3): **Best player: 2017 **Top scorer: 2017, 2019

References

External links

Rodrigo da Costa
profile at

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rodrigo 1993 births Living people Brazilian beach soccer players Sportspeople from Rio de Janeiro (city)