Fred

What I admire about Fred is that he built a serious European career without ever relying on size or flash. At 169 cm, he left Belo Horizonte for Shakhtar Donetsk, won three Ukrainian titles, and after a spell with Fenerbahce in Turkey is now pulling strings back home in Belo Horizonte with Atlético Mineiro. He is the kind of midfielder who lives by ball retention and reading the game rather than highlight-reel goals, and I have always had a soft spot for that quiet, indispensable profile. He may not grab headlines, but a team without a player like Fred simply does not function. That, to me, is the mark of real footballing intelligence.

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Name (English)

Fred

Name (Japanese)

フレッジ

Reading

ふれっじ

Real name

フレデリコ・ロドリゲス・デ・パウラ・サントス

Born

March 5, 1993 (age 33)

Origin

Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Height

169 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Rooster

• Official sitehttps://www.fred8.com.br/#home
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/fred08oficial/
• Xhttps://x.com/Fred08oficial
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%20(footballer%2C%20born%201993)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%83%AC%E3%83%83%E3%82%B8%20(1993%E5%B9%B4%E7%94%9F)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q965448

Tags

• Minas Gerais
• association football player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.