Otávio

Otávio is the kind of player who makes you do a double-take at the squad sheet — full name Otávio Edmilson da Silva Monteiro, born in João Pessoa in Brazil's sun-baked northeast, who quietly made his way to Porto as a teenager and turned into one of their most dependable midfield engines for the better part of a decade. I love that arc: free agent signing, two years on loan at Guimarães, then comes back and basically becomes a Porto fixture. He's not the flashiest guy in the room, but as an attacking midfielder he has this low-center-of-gravity dribbling style that's genuinely difficult to dispossess, and his work rate going both ways is the kind of thing coaches write love letters about. The move to the Saudi Pro League with Al-Qadsiah is a new chapter, and honestly at 29 he still has plenty of football left in those legs.

Name (English)

Otávio

Name (Japanese)

オタヴィオ・エジミウソン・ダ・シウヴァ・モンテイロ

Reading

おたゔぃお・えじみうそん・だ・しうゔぁ・もんていろ

Born

February 9, 1995 (age 31)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Boar

Origin

João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil

Height

171 cm

Occupation

association football player

Motto

Private

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/otaviomonteiroo/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AA%E3%82%BF%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%82%AA%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A8%E3%82%B8%E3%83%9F%E3%82%A6%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%80%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A6%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%86%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AD

Tags

• Paraíba
• 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.