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Rafa Silva
Sign in to saveAlso known as Rafael Alexandre Fernandes Ferreira Silva
Portuguese footballer (born 1993)
OverviewAI-generated
Rafa Silva, born Rafael Alexandre Fernandes Ferreira da Silva on May 17, 1993, in Forte da Casa, Barreiro, is a Portuguese male association football player. He plays as a midfielder and has been a member of S.C. Braga, C.D. Feirense, S.C. Braga B, and the Portugal national under-20 football team. His professional career began in 2012.
Silva has participated in major international tournaments, including the 2014 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2016. He is listed as an attacking midfielder for Besiktas. The player speaks Portuguese and is 170 cm tall with a mass of 66 kg.
Synthesized by Vinony from 40 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Thesportsdb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Donald Duck Coloring Book
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Brazil
- Active from
- 1988-07-03
Discography
- SILVA2011
- 20122012
- Falando sério2012
- Claridão2012
- Forasteiro2013
- Amor pra depois2013
- Vista pro mar2014
- Janeiro2014
- Noite2015
- Rdio Sessions2015
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 925
- Total plays
- 2,577
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Rafa+Silva">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,562x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,908x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,988x
- The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship
· 2016 · cited 14,659x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,706x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- 2013
- Portugal U20
- 2026
- Benfica
- Full name
- Rafael Alexandre Fernandes Ferreira da Silva
- Date of birth
- ( 1993-05-17 ) 17 May 1993 (age 33)
- Place of birth
- Vila Franca de Xira , Portugal
- Height
- 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
- Positions
- Attacking midfielder winger second striker
- Current team
- Benfica
- 2002 2003
- Povoense
- 2003 2011
- Alverca
- 2011 2012
- Feirense
- Years
- Team
- 2012 2013
- Feirense
- 2013 2016
- Braga
- 2016 2024
- Benfica
- 2024 2026
- Beşiktaş
- 2013 2015
- Portugal U21
- 2014 2021
- Portugal
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Team
- Besiktas
- Position
- Attacking Midfield
- Nationality
- Portugal
via TheSportsDB
~7 min read
Encyclopedic overview
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 20:28, 16 May 2026 (UTC)
Rafael Alexandre Fernandes Ferreira da Silva ComM ( Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈʁafɐ ˈsilvɐ]; born 17 May 1993), known as Rafa Silva or simply Rafa, is a Portuguese footballer who plays as a winger or second striker for Primeira Liga club Benfica.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rafa Silva” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.