Photo: Junta de Andalucía / CC BY-SA 2.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
Rodrygo is the player I point to when people confuse flash with value. At Real Madrid, surrounded by louder stars, he keeps doing the unglamorous things — pressing, drifting to either flank, accepting a supporting role — and then decides the biggest Champions League nights as if it were routine. That habit of scoring when stakes are highest suggests a rare temperament; you cannot coach that calm. Coming out of Santos, the pipeline that produced Pelé and Neymar, he carries the weight of that lineage lightly. I suspect history will rate him higher than today's headlines do, and I am happy to be early on that call.
Overview
Rodrygo Silva de Goes (Brazilian Portuguese: [ʁoˈdɾiɡu ˈsiwvɐ dʒi ˈɡɔjs]; born 9 January 2001), better known as Rodrygo, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays primarily as a winger for La Liga club Real Madrid and the Brazil national team. Rodrygo began his career with Santos, where he played 80 games and scored 17 goals before a €45 million transfer to Real Madrid in 2019.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Rodrygo
- Name (Japanese)
- ロドリゴ・シウバ・デ・ゴエス
- Reading
- ろどりご・しうば・で・ごえす
- Born
- January 9, 2001 (age 25)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Capricorn / Snake
- Origin
- São Paulo, Brazil
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 2 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- association football player
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Association football player — see all → · More people from Brazil →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.