Vitorinho

Vitorinho reached the first team in April 2022, making his professional debut that October against Criciúma in the Série B. Cruzeiro signed him that December, and he spent the following two years working through the club's under-20 side before breaking into the senior squad in January 2024, when he made his Série A debut in May.

His first full season at Cruzeiro brought 24 appearances and a goal, but 2025 opened with loan spells away from Belo Horizonte. He made 17 appearances and scored twice there before Náutico signed him on loan for the Série C run. That stint yielded five games and an assist, and Náutico came back for him a second time in 2026, this loan lifting the team into the Série B. He played five matches in that second spell before Cruzeiro recalled him and sold him on to Portugal's Santa Clara on a three-year deal in July.

The medals so far belong to his youth years rather than his senior career: back-to-back Copinha titles with Ponte Preta in 2022 and 2023, a Brazilian under-20 championship and under-20 Cup in 2022, and two São Paulo state under-20 titles before that. He was also spoken of as a contender for the Copinha's individual awards in 2022, though no such prize materialised.

A left-footed midfielder, Vitorinho has spent his career so far shuttling between a parent club reluctant to hand him a settled role and loan spells where he has had to prove himself again each time. Náutico is where that pattern last played out, and the move to Portugal now gives him the chance to build somewhere without the loan tag attached.