Gabriel Tigrão

Gabriel Tigrão is the kind of profile that reminds me how much of football's future is still unwritten. Born in 2001 in Rio de Janeiro, he comes from the city that has produced some of the sport's most expressive talents, and that nickname Tigrão carries real weight in Brazilian football culture. He has already moved through Botafogo's youth ranks, Canelas in Portugal, Gwangju FC in South Korea and V-Varen Nagasaki in Japan, whose contract ended in January 2026, so his journey is well under way. I'd be curious to track where he lands, because Rio-bred players carry expectations, and the gap between potential and proven is exactly the stretch where careers get made or quietly fade.

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Name (English)

Gabriel Tigrão

Name (Japanese)

ガブリエル・チグロン

Reading

がぶりえる・ちぐろん

Born

October 13, 2001 (age 25)

Origin

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Snake

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/gabrieltigrao_01/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AC%E3%83%96%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%81%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AD%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124961567

Tags

• Rio de Janeiro
• 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.