Cainan de Matos

Cainan
Personal information
Full name Cainan Dalpaz de Matos
Date of birth (1990-01-27) 27 January 1990 (age 34)
Place of birth Tapera, Brasil
Position(s) Winger
Team information
Current team
 RSC Anderlecht Futsal
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2007–2009 America-Tapera
2009–2012 LCF Martina
2012–2013 Viagrande
2013–2017 Cisternino
2017–2018 Napoli
2018–2019 CAME Dosson
2019–2021 Valdepeñas
2021–2023 Palma
2023– Anderlecht
International career
2021– Italia 17 (9)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Cainan de Matos (born 27 January 1990), known simply as Cainan, is a Brazilian-Italian futsal player who plays for RSC Anderlecht Futsal in the Belgian Futsal Division 1, and the Italian national futsal team.[1]

Born in Brasil, Cainan arrived in 2009 in Italy, being signed up by the newly formed L.C. Five Martina. He remained there for three seasons, contributing to the team's climb from Serie C2 to A2 (the result of 3 promotions in as many years) and to the victory of the Coppa Italia Serie B in 2012.[2]

In the summer of 2013 he moved to Cisternino. Also here, he was among the protagonists of a team that managed to promote from Serie C1 to Serie A, also winning his second Coppa Italia B in 2015.

In the 2017–18 season he made his debut in the top division, scoring a hat-trick in the victorious away match against Pescara. The following summer he was purchased by CAME Dosson with whom he scored 22 goals during the regular season, finishing second in the goalscoring charts.[3]

Holding a dual citizenship, on 17 January 2022 he was included in Italy's final list for the 2022 European Championship.[4]

With AE Palma Futsal, Cainan won the UEFA Futsal Champions League in the 2022–23 season, after a penalty shoot-out against Sporting CP.[5]

One month later, RSC Anderlecht Futsal announced the transfer of Cainan.[6] In his first season, Cainan scored 28 goals in 35 matches, with the club winning the Belgian Championship for a third time in a row.[7]

  1. ^ "Cainan de Matos". leballonrond.fr (in French). 1 November 2024.
  2. ^ "Intervista a Cainan de Matos, bomber del Futsal Cisternino". capursowebtv.it (in Italian). 22 November 2013.
  3. ^ "Colpo Came Dosson, arriva Cainan De Matos". archive.org. 10 July 2018.
  4. ^ "Euro 2022, il sogno degli azzurri parte da Groningen" (PDF). 17 January 2022.
  5. ^ "Palma 1-1 (5-3p) Sporting CP". uefa.com. 7 May 2023.
  6. ^ "TOPTRANSFER. RSCA Futsal trekt Europees kampioen Cainan aan: "Ook met Anderlecht wil ik winnen"". Het Laatste Nieuws (in Dutch). 28 June 2023.
  7. ^ "33.Cainan de Matos". playmakerstats.com. 30 October 2024.