Matheus Nunes

Matheus Nunes is one of those players who quietly snuck up on the football world and then suddenly everyone was talking about him. Born in Rio de Janeiro but developed through Portuguese football — starting out at Ericeirense and then Estoril — he carved his path the hard way, away from Brazil's famous academies. His breakthrough at Sporting CP turned heads across Europe, and Manchester City's decision to splash serious money on him in 2023 said everything about how highly the elite clubs rate his engine and technical quality. What I find genuinely fascinating is his positional reinvention: a central midfielder who shifted to right-back at City and actually made it work, which speaks to a football intelligence you can't coach. Still only in his mid-twenties as of 2024, he's got Portugal caps and a world-class club environment — the ceiling here is real.

Name (English)

Matheus Nunes

Name (Japanese)

マテウス・ルイス・ヌネス

Reading

まてうす・るいす・ぬねす

Born

August 27, 1998 (age 27)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Tiger

Origin

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Height

2 cm

Occupation

association football player

Motto

Private

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/matheusnunes73/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%86%E3%82%A6%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8C%E3%83%8D%E3%82%B9

Tags

• Rio de Janeiro
• association football player

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.