Rodrigo

Rodrigo's career interests me as a study in patience. A Rio-born striker who came up through Real Madrid's system yet never played for the senior side, he could easily have faded; instead he reinvented himself at Benfica, becoming central to their 2013-14 domestic treble. That refusal to be defined by an early disappointment is, for me, the real story here. At 180 cm he offers the versatility to work as striker or winger, and his later move to Qatar suggests a player content to keep finding his role and delivering wherever the game takes him. Quietly durable.

Name (English)

Rodrigo

Name (Japanese)

ロドリゴ・モレノ・マチャド

Reading

ろどりご・もれの・まちゃど

Born

March 6, 1991 (age 35)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Goat

Origin

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Height

180 cm

Occupation

association football player

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/rodrigom_91/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodrigo%20(footballer%2C%20born%201991)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%89%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B4%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A2%E3%83%AC%E3%83%8E%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%89
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q376394

Tags

• Rio de Janeiro
• association football player

Last updated

2026-06-20

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.