Raphinha
#11 · Forward · age 29
Right winger, Ballon d'Or shortlist 2025 [unverified shirt number]
95
WC26 rating
- Recent form
- 91
- Career peak
- 100
- League level
- 90
- Competition pedigree
- 98
- International pedigree
- 86
- Longevity
- 70
Independent rating — league strength (Opta-anchored) × competition tier × position-normalized output. Not affiliated with EA or FIFA.
Career by season
Source: transfermarkt · fetched 2026-05-29
Raphinha’s tournament will be defined by how he and Vinícius coexist. Both want the ball in advanced zones; both prefer to attack the goalkeeper rather than the byline. Ancelotti’s solution has been a 4-2-3-1 where Raphinha drifts narrow on transition and Vinícius stretches wide left, with Hakan Çalhanoğlu-style overlapping support from the full-backs. It worked in friendlies against Senegal and Chile. The question is whether a knockout opponent willing to sit deep can still be unbalanced when both wingers want to be in the same half-space.
Strengths
- Inside-out left-foot shooting from the right
- Set-piece delivery — corners and direct free kicks
- Defensive workrate uncommon in a Brazilian winger
Recent form
34 goal involvements across all Barcelona competitions in 2025-26; carried the Seleção through the back end of qualifying.
Was rejected by Brazilian top-flight clubs as a teenager and was working partly off school youth football when Avaí signed him at 17 [unverified].