
Photo: MHSC TV - Montpellier Hérault Sport Club / CC BY 3.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
Jeffinho is the kind of player I enjoy tracking precisely because his story is still being written. A Brazilian winger who came up through Botafogo and then found himself on loan at Liaoning Tieren in the Chinese Super League, he's taken a less glamorous route than the European pipeline most prospects chase. At 181 cm and born in late 1999, he's right in that window where a winger either kicks on or settles. I'm genuinely curious whether the China move is a detour or a reset. Either way, I respect a young player willing to go play where the minutes are.
Overview
Jefferson Ruan Pereira dos Santos (born 30 December 1999), commonly known as Jeffinho, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Chinese Super League club Liaoning Tieren, on loan from Botafogo.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Jeffinho
- Name (Japanese)
- ジェフェルソン・フアン・ペレイラ・ドス・サントス
- Reading
- じぇふぇるそん・ふあん・ぺれいら・どす・さんとす
- Born
- December 30, 1999 (age 26)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Capricorn / Rabbit
- Origin
- Brazil, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 181 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- association football player
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/jeffersonsantos_99/
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%95%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9A%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%89%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88%E3%82%B9
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.