Matheus Henrique de Souza (born 19 December 1997) is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Serie A club Sassuolo. He also represents the Brazil national team.
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Full name | Matheus Henrique de Souza | |||||||||||||||
Date of birth | (1997-12-19) 19 December 1997 (age 24) | |||||||||||||||
Place of birth | São Paulo, Brazil | |||||||||||||||
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Midfielder | |||||||||||||||
Club information | ||||||||||||||||
Current team | Sassuolo | |||||||||||||||
Number | 7 | |||||||||||||||
Youth career | ||||||||||||||||
0000–2013 | Nacional-SP | |||||||||||||||
2013–2014 | Grêmio | |||||||||||||||
2015–2018 | São Caetano | |||||||||||||||
2017–2018 | → Grêmio (loan) | |||||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||
2015–2018 | São Caetano | 20 | (3) | |||||||||||||
2017–2018 | → Grêmio (loan) | 17 | (4) | |||||||||||||
2019–2022 | Grêmio | 85 | (5) | |||||||||||||
2021–2022 | → Sassuolo (loan) | 25 | (0) | |||||||||||||
2022– | Sassuolo | 4 | (0) | |||||||||||||
National team‡ | ||||||||||||||||
2019–2021 | Brazil U23 | 19 | (1) | |||||||||||||
2019– | Brazil | 1 | (0) | |||||||||||||
Honours
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 05:34, 31 August 2022 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 16:00, 24 January 2022 (UTC) |
On 11 August 2021, Matheus Henrique joined Italian Serie A club Sassuolo on a season-long loan from Grêmio, with an obligation to buy.[2]
Matheus Henrique made his senior debut for Brazil in a October 2019 friendly against Senegal. 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 that is preparing to compete at the Tokyo Olympics. He took part at 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.[3]
On 17 June 2021, Matheus Henrique was named in the Brazil squad for the 2020 Summer Olympics.[4]
Club | Season | League | State League | Cup | Continental | Other | Total | |||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
São Caetano | 2015 | Série D | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | |
2016 | Paulista A2 | – | 18 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – | 8[lower-alpha 1] | 0 | 26 | 2 | |||
Total | 0 | 0 | 20 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 28 | 3 | ||
Grêmio (loan) | 2017 | Série A | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 1 | 0 | ||
2018 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1[lower-alpha 2] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 4 | ||
Grêmio | 2019 | Série A | 20 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 9[lower-alpha 2] | 0 | – | 46 | 1 | |
2020 | 29 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 8[lower-alpha 2] | 1 | – | 53 | 3 | |||
2021 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6[lower-alpha 3] | 1 | – | 22 | 3 | |||
Total | 70 | 5 | 32 | 4 | 13 | 0 | 24 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 139 | 11 | ||
Sassuolo (loan) | 2021–22 | Serie A | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | |||
Career total | 70 | 5 | 52 | 7 | 13 | 0 | 24 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 167 | 14 |
National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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Brazil | 2019 | 1 | 0 |
Total | 1 | 0 |
Grêmio
Brazil U23
U.S. Sassuolo Calcio – current squad | |
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Brazil men's football squad – 2020 Summer Olympics – Gold medalists | ||
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