Alan Patrick

Two goals against Basel in the 2020/21 Europa League — a 4-1 win that carried Shakhtar Donetsk into the semi-finals — belong to a player. Alan Patrick Lourenço had left São Paulo state for Donetsk a decade earlier and stayed.

He came through the academy at Santos , playing for the first team between 2009 and 2011. Because he was a graduate, Shakhtar paid €4m for him in June 2011. He was still a teenager when he won the South American Under-20 title and the 2011 Under-20 World Cup with Brazil; he has not played for the senior side.

The loans back to Brazil were less settled — two matches at Palmeiras in 2015, a first spell at Internacional in 2013–14, and a season at Flamengo that ended with a club fine over the "Bonde da Stella" affair, a row about parties and beer.

In February 2022 he travelled to Germany for hernia surgery, which took him out of Ukraine before the full-scale Russian invasion began.

Porto Alegre has suited him. A knee ligament injury against Rosario Central in April 2024 kept him out for two months.