Rodrigo Nascimento França, known as Rodrigo Becão (born 19 January 1996) is a Brazilian professional

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who plays as a

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or right-back for

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club Fenerbahçe.

Career

Bahia

Becão made his

Campeonato Brasileiro Série B The Campeonato Brasileiro Série B is commonly referred to as the Brasileirão Série B (Série B), and until 2022 was officially called Brasileirão Sportingbet by sponsorship reasons. It is the second tier of the Brazilian football league system ...

debut for

Bahia Bahia ( , , ; meaning "bay") is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the Northeast Region of the country. It is the fourth-largest Brazilian state by population (after São Paulo, Minas Gerais, and Rio de Janeiro) and the 5th-largest ...

on 28 November 2015 in a game against

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CSKA Moscow

On 4 July 2018, Becão joined the

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club

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on loan for the 2018–19 season. He made his first appearance for CSKA on 27 July 2018, in their

2018 Russian Super Cup The 2018 Russian Super Cup () was the 16th annual Russian Super Cup match which was contested between the 2017–18 Russian Premier League champion, Lokomotiv Moscow, and the 2017–18 Russian Premier League runner-up, CSKA Moscow. 2017–18 Russia ...

victory over

Lokomotiv Moscow FC Lokomotiv Moscow (''FC Lokomotiv Moskva'', russian: link=no, Футбольный клуб "Локомотив" Москва, ) is a Russian professional football club based in Moscow. Lokomotiv have won the Russian Premier League on three o ...

. On 19 September 2018, he made his

UEFA Champions League The UEFA Champions League (abbreviated as UCL, or sometimes, UEFA CL) is an annual club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs, deciding the competi ...

debut with 2–2 away tie against

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Udinese

On 6 July 2019, Rodrigo Becão signed to Italian

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side

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for €1.6 million. On 25 August 2019, Becão scored the winning goal on his Serie A debut in a 1–0 victory over

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at Dacia Arena.

Fenerbahçe

On 20 July 2023, Turkish

side Fenerbahçe announced the signing of Becão on a five-year contract for €8.31 million. On 10 August 2023, he scored his first goal in his debut in

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against

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at the

Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium The Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium () (Known for sponsorship reasons as Ülker Stadyumu Fenerbahçe Şükrü Saracoğlu Spor Kompleksi, or Ülker Stadium for short) is a football stadium located in the Kadıköy district of Istanbul, Turkey. It is t ...

, Fenerbahçe won 3–1. On 13 August 2023, he made his Süper Lig debut against

Gaziantep FK Gaziantep Futbol Kulübü is a Turkish professional football club based in Gaziantep. Founded in 1988, the club currently plays in the Süper Lig, the highest tier of Turkish football. The club was founded as Sankospor in 1988 and competed at th ...

at the

, Fenerbahçe won 2–1.

Career statistics

Honours

Bahia *

Copa do Nordeste Copa do Nordeste (''Cup of the North-East''), also known as Campeonato do Nordeste (''Championship of the North-East'') or Copa Nordeste (''Northeastern Cup''), and sometimes informally referred as Lampions League – in reference to the UEFA Ch ...

: 2017 *

Campeonato Baiano The Campeonato Baiano is the football league of the state of Bahia, Brazil. The championship has been played since 1905 without interruption. 2020 format First stage: 10 teams are included in one group, playing once only against all teams i ...

: 2018 CSKA Moscow *

Russian Super Cup The Russian Super Cup () is a one-match football annual competition. Its official sponsored name is ''OLIMPBET Russian Supercup'' (). The two participating clubs are the Russian Premier League champions and the Russian Cup winners. If the Premi ...

2018 File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the United ...

References

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* 1996 births Footballers from Salvador, Bahia Living people Brazilian men's footballers Men's association football central defenders Esporte Clube Bahia players PFC CSKA Moscow players Udinese Calcio players Fenerbahçe S.K. footballers Campeonato Brasileiro Série A players Campeonato Brasileiro Série B players Russian Premier League players Serie A players Süper Lig players Brazilian expatriate men's footballers Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Russia Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Italy Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey Expatriate men's footballers in Russia Expatriate men's footballers in Italy Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey {{Brazil-footy-defender-1990s-stub