Jeffinho

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 176 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.

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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)

Origin

Brazil

Height

176 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Rabbit

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/jeffersonsantos_99/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffinho
• 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
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q112819181

Tags

• 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.