João Roberto Rota Neto (born 21 May 2003) is a Brazilian professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who plays as an

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for

Red Bull Bragantino Red Bull Bragantino () is a Brazilian football club based in Bragança Paulista, São Paulo. It competes in the Série A, the top tier of the Brazilian football league system, as well as in the Campeonato Paulista Série A1, the highest lev ...

Professional career

Neto made his professional debut with Famalicão in a 2–2

Primeira Liga The Primeira Liga (), also known as Liga Portugal Betclic for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Portugal and the highest level of the Portuguese football league system. Organised and supervised by the Liga ...

tie with

Sporting CP Sporting Clube de Portugal (), otherwise referred to as Sporting CP or simply Sporting (particularly within Portugal), or as Sporting Lisbon in other countries,

on 5 December 2020. At 17 years and 6 months old, he was the youngest ever player to make his professional debut with Famalicão. On 1 September 2021, he joined Benfica B on loan. Upon returning in 2023, he was not used in the main squad, and returned to his home country with

on a four-year contract on 2 September 2024.

Honours

Benfica *

UEFA Youth League The UEFA Youth League is an annual club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) since 2013. In its current format, it is contested by the under-19 teams of the clubs competing in the UEFA Champions Le ...

: 2021–22

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* * 2003 births Footballers from Taubaté Living people Brazilian men's footballers Men's association football midfielders F.C. Famalicão players S.L. Benfica B players Red Bull Bragantino players Primeira Liga players Liga Portugal 2 players Brazilian expatriate men's footballers Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal Expatriate men's footballers in Portugal 21st-century Brazilian sportsmen {{Brazil-footy-forward-2000s-stub