Vitinho (footballer, born October 1993)

Vitinho

Vitinho with CSKA in April 2017
Personal information
Full name	Victor Vinícius Coelho dos Santos
Date of birth	(1993-10-09) 9 October 1993 (age 31)
Place of birth	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)	Striker, Attacking midfielder
Club information
Current team	Al-Ettifaq
Number	27
Youth career
2007–2010	Audax Rio
2011–2012	Botafogo
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2011–2013	Botafogo	33	(10)
2013–2018	CSKA Moscow	58	(16)
2015–2016	→ Internacional (loan)	83	(25)
2018–2022	Flamengo	133	(21)
2022–	Al-Ettifaq	31	(5)
National team
2012	Brazil U23	4	(2)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 22:23, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

Victor Vinícius Coelho dos Santos (also known as Vitinho; born 9 October 1993) is a Brazilian professional association football player. He currently plays for Flamengo.

Career

He has played for the Brazilian club, Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas. In the 2013 season, he scored 4 goals in 16 Série A games.

Vitinho signed a 5-year contract with PFC CSKA Moscow on 2 September 2013.^[1] He was usually just used as a substitute. Botafogo was interested in loaning Vitinho back to the club.^[2]

On 16 January 2015, Vitinho joined Sport Club Internacional on a one-year loan deal.^[3] The loan was extended to the end of 2016. He also extended his contract with CSKA Moscow to 2020. He returned to CSKA Moscow in January 2017.^[4]

He made two appearances with the Brazilian Olympic team in 2012.

Honours

Botafogo

• Campeonato Carioca (1): 2013

CSKA

• Russian Premier League (1): 2013–14
• Russian Super Cup (1): 2014

Internacional

• Campeonato Gaúcho (2): 2015, 2016

References

1. "Vitinho joins PFC CSKA". Archived from the original on 2013-09-03. Retrieved 2017-12-04.
2. "CSKA Moscow refuse to loan Vitinho to Botafogo". SambaFoot. 28 March 2014. Retrieved 3 April 2014.
3. "Atacante Vitinho reforça o Internacional [Forward Vitinho joins Internacional]". Internacional (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 19 January 2015. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
4. "Vitinho is coming back and will play for CSKA" (in Russian). Sport Express. 9 December 2016.

Other websites

• Vitinho at Soccerway