Lucas Felipe Calegari (born 27 February 2002) is a Brazilian professional

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who plays for

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 ...

club

F.C. Famalicão Futebol Clube de Famalicão, commonly known as Famalicão, is a Portuguese professional association football, football club from Vila Nova de Famalicão. Founded on 21 August 1931, its senior team currently plays in the Primeira Liga, the top tie ...

, on loan from

Fluminense Fluminense Football Club () is a Brazilian sports club based in the neighbourhood of Laranjeiras, in Rio de Janeiro, being the oldest football club in the state since its foundation in 1902. It competes in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, th ...

as a

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Playing career

Calegari began playing football locally at the age of 7, and started as a forward with Uirapuru. Calegari joined the youth a academy of

at the age of 12, and signed his first contract with them in December 2019. Calegari made his professional debut with Fluminense in a 1-0

Campeonato Brasileiro Série A The Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (; English: "Brazilian Championship A Series"), commonly referred to as the Brasileirão (; English: "Big Brazilian" or "Great Brazilian"), the Série A or the Brazilian Série A (to distinguish it from the I ...

win over

Athletico Paranaense Club Athletico Paranaense (abbreviated CAP, commonly known as Athletico Paranaense and up to 2019 known as Atlético Paranaense) is a Brazilian football team from the city of Curitiba, capital city of the Brazilian state of Paraná, founded o ...

on 22 August 2020. On July 27, 2024, it was confirmed that Calegari joined

club

on a one-year loan deal with a purchase option of, according to media reports, 1.5 million euros.

International career

Calegari represented the Brazil U17s once in a 4–1 friendly win over the Paraguay U17s on 26 July 2019.

Career Statistics

Club

References

External links

Fluminense profile
* 2002 births Living people Footballers from Cuiabá Brazilian men's footballers Brazilian expatriate men's footballers Brazil men's youth international footballers Men's association football fullbacks Campeonato Brasileiro Série A players Major League Soccer players Primeira Liga players Fluminense FC players LA Galaxy players F.C. Famalicão players Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in the United States Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal Expatriate men's footballers in Portugal 21st-century Brazilian sportsmen {{Brazil-footy-forward-2000s-stub