Mauro Jaqueson Júnior Ferreira dos Santos (born 6 May 1999), commonly known as Mauro Júnior, is a Brazilian professional

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who plays as a

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or winger for club

PSV Eindhoven Philips Sport Vereniging (; ), abbreviated as PSV and internationally known as PSV Eindhoven (), is a Dutch sports club from Eindhoven, Netherlands. It is best known for its professional association football, football department, which has pla ...

Club career

On 23 June 2017, Mauro Júnior signed a five-year contract with PSV until 2022. He was sent out on a season-long loan to fellow Eredivisie club

Heracles Almelo Heracles Almelo is a Dutch professional football club based in Almelo, founded in 1903. The club has won the Dutch national title twice, in 1927 and 1941. Heracles won the Eerste Divisie title during the 2004–05 season, gaining promotion to t ...

for the 2019–20 season. On 20 September 2019, he scored a brace as Heracles defeated local rivals

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by a score of 3–2. On 24 September 2020, Mauro Júnior scored his side's second goal in a 5–1 away win over

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in the

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of the

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. On 2 July 2021, PSV extended Mauro Júnior's contract until the summer of 2025.

International career

Mauro Júnior represented Brazil at the

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. He came on as a substitute for Marco Túlio in the final, a 1–0 loss to

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Career statistics

Club

Honours

PSV *

Eredivisie The Eredivisie (; "Honour Division" or "Premier Division") is a professional association football league in the Netherlands and the highest level of the Dutch football league system. The league was founded in 1956, two years after the start o ...

: 2023–24, 2024–25 *

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: 2021–22 *

Johan Cruyff Shield The Johan Cruyff Shield (, ) is a football trophy in the Netherlands named after Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff, also often referred to as the Dutch Super Cup. The winner is decided in one match only, played by the winner of the national footbal ...

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

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Profile
at the PSV Eindhoven website * 1999 births Living people Footballers from São Paulo (state) Brazilian men's footballers Brazil men's youth international footballers Men's association football fullbacks Men's association football wingers Desportivo Brasil players PSV Eindhoven players Heracles Almelo players Eredivisie players Eerste Divisie players Jong PSV players Brazilian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands 21st-century Brazilian sportsmen {{Brazil-footy-forward-1990s-stub