📸 Lucas Paquetá, Brazil footballer: Photo Gallery (Photo: 10)

📄 Summary

Lucas Paquetá

Brazil

27 August 1997

midfielder

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Lucas Paquetá , better known as Lucas Paquetá (Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈlukas pakɛˈta]), is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Flamengo and the Brazil national team.

Paquetá began his career in 2007 with Flamengo, where he won the 2016 Copa São Paulo de Júniores title. After being promoted to the senior team in 2016, he moved to Europe in 2019 to join Italian giants AC Milan, where he played for two seasons. He then joined French club Lyon, and in 2022 signed for English side West Ham United, winning the UEFA Europa Conference League in his debut season. He then joined Brazilian side Flamengo in 2026.

Paquetá represented Brazil at the Copa América in 2019, 2021 and 2024, winning the 2019 tournament, and was also a part of their squad for the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

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📋 Profile & Career

: Paquetá with West Ham United in 2022

⚽ Personal information:
Full name: Lucas Tolentino Coelho de Lima
Date of birth: (1997-08-27) 27 August 1997 (age 28)
Place of birth: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Height: 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position: Attacking midfielder

⚽ Team information:
Current team: Flamengo
Number: 20

⚽ Youth career:
2007–2016: Flamengo

⚽ Senior career*:
Years: Team Apps (Gls)
2016–2019: Flamengo 67 (15)
2019–2020: AC Milan 37 (1)
2020–2022: Lyon 67 (18)
2022–2026: West Ham United 110 (16)
2026–: Flamengo 15 (6)

⚽ International career‡:
2016–2017: Brazil U20 8 (1)
2018–: Brazil 61 (12)