Douglas Assis de Oliveira, commonly known as Douglas Assis, is a Brazilian

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who plays as a

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for

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, on loan from Brasil de Pelotas.

Career

Douglas Assis started his career with Cabofriense in the junior ranks, moving up to the senior squad in 2005, and reaching the semi-final of the

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. Two years later he was part of the squad which reached the final of 2007 Campeonato Carioca#Taça Rio. He left in 2010 to become a member of the Madureira team that played in national league competition for the first time, in

2010 Campeonato Brasileiro Série D In 2010, the Campeonato Brasileiro Série D, the fourth division of the Brazilian League, will be contested for the second time in history. The competition has 40 clubs, four of which will eventually qualify to the Campeonato Brasileiro Série C t ...

, winning promotion at the first attempt. He also represented

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for four seasons in the national league, in

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and

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and in

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, punctuated by a spell with Vila Nova in

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. He returned to Vila Nova for the 2016 season, but lost his place in the

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team when a new coach arrived and terminated his contract in September, allowing him to rejoin his first club Cabofriense for the 2017 season. Douglas Assis joined Boa Esporte in February 2017, and in one of his first

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games, scored a direct free-kick from the half-way line against

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which resulted in the debut, and Figueirense career, of goalkeeper

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ending at half-time. At the end of the season he signed with São Bento for 2018. His

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season was cut short with a cruciate ligament injury in July. In December 2018 Douglas Assis was announced as one of the new signings of the Brasil de Pelotas squad to play in the 2019

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, and after the end of the competition was loaned to

for the

season.

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