Otávio Henrique Passos Santos

Otávio arrived at Fluminense in February 2025 on a four-year deal running to December 2027, joining after three seasons at Atlético Mineiro that brought him a Supercopa do Brasil and three straight Campeonato Mineiro titles. That run in Belo Horizonte followed the pattern of a career built on steady accumulation rather than a single defining moment: a boy from Maceió who left CRB's academy for Atlético Paranaense, broke into the first team there in 2014 and stayed three seasons, then took the leap to Bordeaux in 2017 for a fee in the region of €5 million.

The five years in France were the longest spell of his career, though the facts that travel best from that period are the bare dates rather than any single match. What stands out more from his time at Atlético Mineiro is a more recent, quieter distinction: in 2024 he led the team in tackles, the kind of statistic that says more about a player's defensive graft in midfield than about goals or headlines.

At international level, Otávio's involvement has been limited to a single cap for Brazil's under-22 side in 2015, and he has not been called into the senior national team. With Fluminense, he has already added to his medal collection, winning the Taça Guanabara in 2026, a first trophy in Rio de Janeiro colours.

Across a career now spent at four clubs, the throughline is a player who wins domestic silverware wherever he goes without becoming the headline act — a Paranaense title in Curitiba, and now a Guanabara crown to open his account at Fluminense.