Taigo Vital Amorim de Araujo, commonly known as Taigo (born 28 May 1997) is a Brazilian

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

er who plays as a

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for Portuguese side

CD Operário Clube Operário Desportivo ''(known as CD Operário, Operário dos Açores or just Operário),'' is a Portugal, Portuguese Association football, football club based in Lagoa (Azores), Lagoa in the island of São Miguel Island, São Miguel in the ...

in the

Liga Meo Azores The Liga Meo Açores is a Portuguese non-professional league for association football clubs from Azores. It belongs to the 5th tier of the Portuguese football league system The Portuguese football league system consists of several leagues boun ...

Career

Taigo was born in

Telêmaco Borba Telêmaco Borba is a municipality in the state of Paraná in the Southern Region of Brazil. Telêmaco Borba is known as the "capital of paper" (Capital do Papel) and "capital of wood" (Capital da Madeira) due to the importance of paper and wood ...

,Prata da Casa, Taigo Amorim disputará mais um torneio internacional com o Coxa
at tbesportes.com, 26 March 2015, Retrieved 10 September 2018 in state of Paraná, Brazil. As a youngster, Taigo participated in motocross championships in state of Parana in Brazil. Taigo started his football career at

Coritiba Coritiba Foot Ball Club, commonly known as Coritiba and colloquially referred to as heCoxa, is a Brazilian football club from Curitiba, capital city of the Brazilian state of Paraná. Founded in 1909 by German immigrants, it is the olde ...

U-13. Afterwards, he went through Silvio Pereira school, Colégio Positivo with Anderson Valério, and CER Aquárius with Edilson Pukanski. By 2015 he had seven Paraná youth state championships, two titles of Gradisca Tournament in Italy, and a Brazilian championship in under-15 level. He begin playing for Coritiba B team since 2013 and regularly since 2015 In summer 2018 he moved to Europe and signed with Serbian newly-promoted top-league side

FK Dinamo Vranje FK Dinamo Vranje () is a football club based in Vranje, Serbia. History After spending 12 consecutive seasons in the third tier, the club won the Serbian League East and took promotion to the Serbian First League in 2006. They thus reached the ...

. He made his debut in the

2018–19 Serbian SuperLiga The 2018–19 Serbian SuperLiga was the thirteenth season of the Serbian SuperLiga, the top tier of football league in Serbia. Red Star was the defending champions from the previous season. Teams The league consisted of 16 teams: fourteen te ...

on 26 August 2018, in a home game against

FK Zemun Fudbalski klub Zemun (Serbian Cyrillic: Фудбалски клуб Земун) is a Serbian professional football club based in Zemun, Belgrade, that competes in the Serbian First League. History Immediately after the end of the Second Wor ...

, a 1–0 victory.Taigo
at Soccerway During the winter season-break, he returned to Brazil and played in 2019 first with

Sport Club São Paulo Sport Club São Paulo, commonly referred to as São Paulo-RS, is a Brazilian football club based in Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul. It currently plays in Campeonato Gaúcho Série B, the third level of the Rio Grande do Sul state football league ...

and then with

Guarany Sporting Club Guarany Sporting Club, commonly known as Guarany de Sobral or just as Guarany, is a Brazilian association football, football club from Sobral, Ceará, Sobral, Ceará, Ceará state. They competed once in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série B, Série ...

, better known as Guarany from Sobral.Taigo
at zerozero.pt In the 2020–21 season he made a new attempt in Europe, this time by signing with Portuguese side

, located in the

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Taigo 1997 births Living people 21st-century Brazilian sportsmen Brazilian men's footballers Footballers from Paraná (state) Men's association football fullbacks Serbian SuperLiga players Coritiba Foot Ball Club players FK Dinamo Vranje players Sport Club São Paulo players Guarany Sporting Club players Brazilian expatriate men's footballers Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Serbia Expatriate men's footballers in Serbia Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal Expatriate men's footballers in Portugal