Renato Kaiser

Renato Kaiser's career reads like a list of Brazilian regional titles collected one loan spell at a time. Before he ever settled at a club, he had already worn the shirts of Oeste, Portuguesa, Villa Nova, Ferroviária, Tupi, Atlético Goianiense and Ponte Preta, all after coming through the youth ranks at Vasco da Gama and Cruzeiro. That itinerant start set the pattern: wherever he landed, he tended to leave with a medal, from the Copa Paulista with Ferroviária in 2017 to the Campeonato Mineiro with Cruzeiro in 2019 and the Campeonato Goiano with Atlético Goianiense in 2020.

The move that showed what he could do as a lead forward came at Athletico Paranaense, signed in 2020. In 2021 he finished the year as the club's top scorer with 12 goals and reached the final of the Copa do Brasil, and the same season he won the Copa Sudamericana. That form took him to Fortaleza in 2022, where he added the Copa do Nordeste and the Campeonato Cearense to his collection, before a loan spell took him further afield than any of his previous moves, to Daejeon Hana Citizen in South Korea.

Back in Brazil, spells with América Mineiro and Criciúma followed, and at Criciúma in 2024 he won the Campeonato Catarinense as well as the Recopa Catarinense. In April 2025 he joined Vitória, and the goals kept coming: he ended the year as the club's leading scorer with nine. Across more than a decade in the game, Kaiser has rarely stayed anywhere long, but he has rarely stayed anywhere without something to show for it.