Baltazar Costa Rodrigues de Oliveira (born 6 May 2000), better known as Batata, is a Brazilian professional

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who plays as a

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for

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club Sion.

Career

Batata began playing senior football with

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in the

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in 2018. On 17 May 2017, Batata transferred to

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in Switzerland. He made his professional debut for Sion in a 2–1

loss to

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on 22 July 2018.

Career Statistics

Club

Personal life

Batata's real first name is Baltazar after his father, but prefers to go by his childhood nickname (meaning potato in Portuguese).

References

External links

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SFL Profile

FC Sion Profile
2000 births Living people Footballers from Goiás Brazilian men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Swiss Super League players Swiss Challenge League players FC Sion players Vila Nova Futebol Clube players Brazilian expatriate men's footballers Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland 21st-century Brazilian sportsmen {{Switzerland-footy-forward-stub