Tiquinho Soares

Tiquinho Soares
Personal information
Full name Francisco das Chagas Soares dos Santos[1]
Date of birth (1991-01-17) 17 January 1991 (age 33)[1]
Place of birth Sousa, Brazil[1]
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)[1]
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
Botafogo
Number 9
Youth career
2007–2008 Palmeiras das Rocas
2008 Corinthians Alagoano
2009 América de Natal
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2009–2010 América de Natal 14 (2)
2010 Botafogo-PB 0 (0)
2011 Sousa 0 (0)
2012–2016 CSP 17 (10)
2012Caicó [pt] (loan) 7 (1)
2012Visão Celeste [pt] (loan) 6 (0)
2013Cerâmica (loan) 9 (2)
2013Treze (loan) 9 (0)
2014Veranópolis (loan) 16 (4)
2014Pelotas (loan) 3 (0)
2014Lucena (loan) 7 (3)
2014–2016Nacional (loan) 42 (12)
2016–2017 Vitória Guimarães 16 (7)
2017–2020 Porto 97 (45)
2020 Tianjin TEDA 4 (0)
2021–2022 Olympiacos 33 (9)
2022– Botafogo 77 (32)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 13:25, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

Francisco das Chagas Soares dos Santos (born 17 January 1991), known as Soares or Tiquinho, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Botafogo.

Having started his career in the lower leagues of his homeland, he moved to Portugal aged 23. He played 155 Primeira Liga games for Nacional, Vitória de Guimarães and Porto, scoring 64 goals and winning two league titles with the last of those clubs. After winning the Super League Greece with Olympiacos in 2022, he joined Botafogo in Série A.

  1. ^ a b c d "Tiquinho Soares" (in Portuguese). Mais Futebol. Retrieved 25 September 2020.