Rayan Lucas

Rayan Lucas
Personal information
Full name Rayan Lucas Marques de Souza
Date of birth (2005-01-03) 3 January 2005 (age 20)
Place of birth Brazil
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position Midfielder
Team information
Current team
Sporting (on loan from Flamengo)
Number 60
Youth career
–2025 Flamengo
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2023– Flamengo 8 (0)
2025–Sporting (loan) 0 (0)
2025–Sporting B (loan) 4 (0)
International career
2024– Brazil U20 2 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 18 September 2025
‡ National team caps and goals as of 5 June 2025

Rayan Lucas Marques de Souza (born 3 January 2005) is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Sporting on loan from Flamengo.

Club career

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As a youth player, Lucas joined the youth academy of Brazilian side Flamengo at the age of eleven[1] and was promoted to the club's senior team in 2023.

Ahead of the 2025–26 season, he was sent on loan to Portuguese side Sporting.[2]

International career

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Lucas is a Brazil youth international. On 5 September 2024, he debuted for the Brazil national under-20 football team during a 2–1 home friendly win over the Mexico national under-20 football team.

Style of play

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Lucas plays as a midfielder and is right-footed. Brazilian news website Globo Esporte [pt] wrote in 2024 that he is a "classic number 5—with good passing, technical ability, and immense physical strength".[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Sporting: eis o que vale Rayan Lucas" [Sporting: here's what Rayan Lucas is worth] (in Portuguese). A Bola. 7 June 2025. Retrieved 26 September 2025.
  2. ^ Rayan Lucas at WorldFootball.net
  3. ^ "Sobrevivente no Ninho e campeão da Libertadores sub-20: conheça Rayan Lucas, do Flamengo" [Survivor at the Nest and champion of the U-20 Libertadores: meet Rayan Lucas, from Flamengo] (in Portuguese). Globo Esporte [pt]. 19 March 2024. Retrieved 26 September 2025.
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