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Joelinton
Sign in to saveAlso known as Joelinton Cássio Apolinário de Lira, Joelinton Cassio Apolinario de Lira
Joelinton Cássio Apolinário de Lira (Brazilian Portuguese: [ʒoˈɛ.lĩ.tõw̃], born 14 August 1996) is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder or winger for Premier League club Newcastle United and the Brazil national team.
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Joelinton Cássio Apolinário de Lira, known as Joelinton, is a Brazilian male association football player. Born on August 14, 1996, in Aliança, he plays as a forward and has also been listed as a central midfielder. He represents Brazil in international competition and has played for several clubs, including Sport Club do Recife, TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, and Newcastle United F.C.
His professional career began in 2014. He competes in the Premier League for Newcastle United, where he wears the number 7 jersey. Standing 186 centimeters tall and weighing 81 kilograms, he speaks Portuguese as his native language.
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 2
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Microrganismos de interesse sanitário em sushis
· 2016 · cited 1x
- Diversidade e variação linguística em um livro didático de língua portuguesa do ensino fundamental II
· 2020
- A Bayesian Approach for Explainable and Uncertain Generative Model Attribution
· 2026
- FERRAMENTA EDUCACIONAL PARA AVALIAR CRIANÇAS APRENDENDO INGLÊS
· 2023
- Entre vozes e vivências: um estudo interpretativo sobre a avaliação em língua inglesa
· 2026
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Key facts
- Football biography.name
- Joelinton
- Football biography.image
- Joelinton (cropped).jpg
- Football biography.caption
- Joelinton playing for TSG Hoffenheim in 2019
- Football biography.full_name
- Joelinton Cássio Apolinário de Lira
- Football biography.birth_place
- Aliança, Brazil
- Football biography.height
- 1.86 m
- Football biography.position
- Midfielder, winger
- Football biography.currentclub
- Newcastle United
- Football biography.clubnumber
- 7
- Football biography.youthyears1
- 2010–2014
- Football biography.youthclubs1
- Sport Recife
- Football biography.years1
- 2014–2015
- Football biography.clubs1
- Sport Recife
- Football biography.caps1
- 23
- Football biography.goals1
- 5
- Football biography.years2
- 2015–2019
- Football biography.clubs2
- TSG Hoffenheim
- Football biography.caps2
- 29
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Team
- Newcastle United
- Position
- Central Midfield
- Nationality
- Brazil
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Brazil
- Place of birth
- Aliança
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- Portuguese
- Native language
- Portuguese
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Brazil men's national football team
- Position played
- forward
- League
- Premier League
- Country for sport
- Brazil
- Mass
- 81
- Image
- Joelinton (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 186
Show 6 more facts
- date of birth
- 1996-08-14
- sport number
- 7
- Commons category
- Joelinton
- start of work period
- 2014-00-00
- name in native language
- Joelinton Cássio Apolinário de Lira
- short name
- Joelinton
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Club career
- Sport Recife
- TSG Hoffenheim
- Loan to Rapid Wien
- Return
- Newcastle United
- International career
- Personal life
- Career statistics
- Club
- International
- Honours
- References
- External links
Joelinton Cássio Apolinário de Lira (Brazilian Portuguese: [ʒoˈɛ.lĩ.tõw̃], born 14 August 1996) is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder or winger for Premier League club Newcastle United and the Brazil national team.
Starting his career with Sport Recife, Joelinton joined Hoffenheim in 2015, and was loaned to Rapid Wien for two years from 2016, before joining Newcastle United in 2019, where he was converted from a striker to a midfielder under the management of Eddie Howe. He has also been capped for the Brazil under-17 national team, and made his debut for the senior team in 2023.
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