Matheus Henrique de Souza (born 19 December 1997) is a Brazilian professional

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who plays as a

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for Cruzeiro. He also represents the Brazil national team.

Club career

On 11 August 2021, Matheus Henrique joined Italian

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club

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on a

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-long loan from Grêmio, with an obligation to buy.

International career

Matheus Henrique made his senior debut for Brazil in an October 2019 friendly against

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. Previously, he was part of the Brazil under-23 team that won the 2019 Toulon Tournament, beating Japan on penalties in the final. Courtesy of his Grêmio performances, he became a mainstay of the under-23 team preparing to compete at the Tokyo Olympics. He participated in the International Tenerife Tournament in 2019 and the CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament in 2020 with the under-23 team, finishing runner-up in both competitions and securing a place at the Olympics with their performance in the latter. On 17 June 2021, Matheus Henrique was named in the Brazil squad for the

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Career statistics

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Honours

Grêmio *

Campeonato Gaúcho The Campeonato Gaúcho (English: Gaúcho Championship), officially named as Campeonato Gaúcho de Futebol Série A and commonly known as the Gauchão or the Gauchão Ipiranga (company), Ipiranga for sponsorship reasons, is the top-flight profess ...

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

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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 ...

Brazil U23 *

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* * * 1997 births Living people Brazilian men's footballers Footballers from São Paulo Men's association football midfielders São Caetano Futebol players Grêmio FBPA players US Sassuolo Calcio players Campeonato Brasileiro Série A players Serie A players Brazil men's youth international footballers Brazil men's international footballers Olympic footballers for Brazil Footballers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in football Olympic gold medalists for Brazil Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Brazilian expatriate men's footballers Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Italy Expatriate men's footballers in Italy 21st-century Brazilian sportsmen {{Brazil-footy-midfielder-1990s-stub