Yago Gomes do Nascimento (born 8 September 2001) is a Swiss-Brazilian professional

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who plays as a

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for Cham in the

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Early life

Gomes was born in

Beberibe Beberibe is a municipality in the state of Ceará in Brazil. Its estimated population in 2020 is 53,949. The municipality was created on June 5, 1892, and incorporated July 18, 1892. The name 'Beberibe' means "where the sugar cane grows". Geograp ...

, Brazil to a Brazilian father and Swiss mother, and holds both nationalities. He moved from Brazil, to the Swiss town

Flums Flums is a municipality in the ''Wahlkreis'' (constituency) of Sarganserland in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. It is close to a large shopping complex and also is the gateway to a large skiing resort called ''Flumserberg''. History Fl ...

at the age of 4.

Career

Gomes began playing football locally in Flums, before moving to the academies of St. Gallen and

Vaduz Vaduz ( or , High Alemannic pronunciation: [])Hans Stricker, Toni Banzer, Herbert Hilbe: ''Liechtensteiner Namenbuch. Die Orts- und Flurnamen des Fürstentums Liechtenstein.'' Band 2: ''Die Namen der Gemeinden Triesenberg, Vaduz, Schaan.'' Hrsg. ...

. Gomes made his professional debut with

in a 2–0

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loss to

FC St. Gallen Fussballclub St. Gallen 1879, commonly known as St. Gallen, is a Swiss professional football club based in the city of St. Gallen, Canton of St. Gallen. As of the 2022–23 season, the team competes in the Swiss Super League. History Founde ...

on 20 January 2021. On 26 July 2023,

SC Cham SC Cham 1910 is a Swiss football team which plays in the third tier of the Swiss football pyramid. They are based in Cham and were founded in 1910. History The club was founded on 14 June 1910 and was the first football club in Canton Zug. ...

announced the signings of Yago Gomes and Elias Mesonero, both on a one-year contract.

References

External links

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SFL Profile

Vaduz profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gomes, Yago 2001 births Living people Footballers from Ceará Brazilian men's footballers Swiss men's footballers Brazilian people of Swiss descent Swiss people of Brazilian descent Men's association football midfielders FC Vaduz players FC St. Gallen players Swiss expatriate sportspeople in Liechtenstein Swiss Super League players Swiss Challenge League players Swiss Promotion League players Brazilian expatriate men's footballers Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Liechtenstein Expatriate men's footballers in Liechtenstein Swiss expatriate men's footballers