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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Rayan Lucas Marques de Souza | ||
| Date of birth | 3 January 2005 | ||
| Place of birth | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | ||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Position | Midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Flamengo | ||
| Number | 35 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –2025 | Flamengo | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2023– | Flamengo | 8 | (0) |
| 2025–2026 | → Sporting CP B (loan) | 22 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2024 | Brazil U20 | 4 | (1) |
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 20 June 2026 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 00:28, 2 December 2025 (UTC) | |||
Rayan Lucas Marques de Souza (born 3 January 2005) is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Flamengo.
Club career
[edit]As a youth player, Lucas joined the youth academy of Brazilian side Flamengo at the age of eleven[1] and was promoted to the club's senior team in 2023.
Sporting CP (loan)
[edit]Ahead of the 2025–26 season, he was sent on loan to Portuguese side Sporting, initially integrating the club's reserve team, which had recently been promoted to Liga Portugal 2.[2]
International career
[edit]Lucas is a Brazil youth international. On 5 September 2024, he debuted for the Brazil national under-20 football team during a 2–1 home friendly win over the Mexico national under-20 football team.
Style of play
[edit]Lucas plays as a midfielder and is right-footed. Brazilian news website Globo Esporte wrote in 2024 that he is a "classic number 5—with good passing, technical ability, and immense physical strength".[3]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Sporting: eis o que vale Rayan Lucas" [Sporting: here's what Rayan Lucas is worth] (in Portuguese). A Bola. 7 June 2025. Retrieved 26 September 2025.
- ↑ Rayan Lucas at WorldFootball.net
- ↑ "Sobrevivente no Ninho e campeão da Libertadores sub-20: conheça Rayan Lucas, do Flamengo" [Survivor at the Nest and champion of the U-20 Libertadores: meet Rayan Lucas, from Flamengo] (in Portuguese). Globo Esporte. 19 March 2024. Retrieved 26 September 2025.
External links
[edit]- Rayan Lucas at WorldFootball.net
- 2005 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Rio de Janeiro (city)
- Brazilian men's footballers
- Men's association football midfielders
- Brazil men's under-20 international footballers
- 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup players
- CR Flamengo footballers
- Sporting CP footballers
- Sporting CP B players
- Liga Portugal 2 players
- Brazilian expatriate men's footballers
- Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal
- Expatriate men's footballers in Portugal