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Joelinton
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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 is a Brazilian association football player born on August 14, 1996, in Aliança. He speaks and writes Portuguese. His professional career began in 2014. He has played for Sport Club do Recife, TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, and Newcastle United F.C. He also represented the Brazil national under-17 football team.
At Newcastle United, he wears the number 7 shirt. While one source lists his position as forward, another identifies him as a central midfielder. He competes in the Premier League and represents Brazil in international competition.
Synthesized by Vinony from 21 facts across 2 sources: Wikidata, Thesportsdb. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Joelinton” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.