Ricardinho

Ricardinho is the kind of athlete who makes me want to evangelize for a sport most people never watch. Futsal doesn't get prime-time love, yet here's a Portuguese player from Gondomar routinely called the greatest to ever play it, with the UEFA and FIFA hardware to back the claim. At 164 centimeters he's proof that this game rewards imagination and close control over size, and his trick goals are the sort of thing I'll happily lose an hour to on video. Being decorated with the Order of Prince Henry tells me his country knows what it has. I just wish more of the world did too.

Name (English)

Ricardinho

Name (Japanese)

リカルド・フェリペ・ダ・シルバ・ブラガ

Reading

りかるど・ふぇりぺ・だ・しるば・ぶらが

Born

September 3, 1985 (age 40)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Ox

Origin

Gondomar, Porto, Portugal

Height

164 cm

Occupation

association football player / futsal player

Awards & achievements

• Commander of the Order of Merit of Portugal
• Order of Prince Henry

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://www.ricardinho10.com/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%82%AB%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AA%E3%83%9A%E3%83%BB%E3%83%80%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%AB%E3%83%90%E3%83%BB%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%82%AC

Tags

• Porto
• association football player
• futsal 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.