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Roberto Firmino: Career Highlights

Roberto Firmino is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Liverpool and the Brazil national team. He started his career with Figueirense in 2009 before spending four and a half seasons at Hoffenheim between 2010-2015, where he scored 16 goals in the 2013-14 season to earn an award. In 2015, he signed for Liverpool, where he has helped the club win several trophies including the Champions League, UEFA Super Cup, Club World Cup, and Premier League. Internationally, Firmino has represented Brazil since 2014 and was part of their squads for the 2015 Copa America, 2018 World Cup, 2019 Copa America, and 2021 Copa America.

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Roberto Firmino: Career Highlights

Roberto Firmino is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Liverpool and the Brazil national team. He started his career with Figueirense in 2009 before spending four and a half seasons at Hoffenheim between 2010-2015, where he scored 16 goals in the 2013-14 season to earn an award. In 2015, he signed for Liverpool, where he has helped the club win several trophies including the Champions League, UEFA Super Cup, Club World Cup, and Premier League. Internationally, Firmino has represented Brazil since 2014 and was part of their squads for the 2015 Copa America, 2018 World Cup, 2019 Copa America, and 2021 Copa America.

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Roberto Firmino Barbosa de Oliveira 

(born 2 October 1991) is a Brazilian


professional footballer who plays as a forward or attacking midfielder for Premier
League club Liverpool and the Brazil national team.
After starting his career with Figueirense in 2009, he spent four-and-a-half seasons at Hoffenheim. His
16 goals in 33 games for the 2013–14 Bundesliga season earned him the award for the league's
Breakthrough Player. In July 2015, he signed for Liverpool. His creativity, goalscoring and work rate
have earned him plaudits at Liverpool, with manager Jürgen Klopp referring to Firmino as the "engine"
that propels the club's counter-attacking system.[5] In the 2018–19 season he won the UEFA
Champions League, and the following season won the UEFA Super Cup, the FIFA Club World
Cup after scoring the winner in the final, and the 2019–20 Premier League title, Liverpool's first league
title in 30 years.
Firmino made his international debut for Brazil in November 2014. He represented the nation at
the 2015 Copa América, the 2018 FIFA World Cup, the 2019 Copa América and the 2021 Copa
América.

CHAPTER 1 Contents

 1Club career
o 1.1Early career
o 1.2Hoffenheim
o 1.3Liverpool
 1.3.12015–16 season
 1.3.22016–17 season
 1.3.32017–18 season
 1.3.42018–19 season
 1.3.52019–20 season
 1.3.62020–21 season
 1.3.72021–22 season
 2International career
 3Style of play
 4Personal life
 5Career statistics
o 5.1Club
o 5.2International
 6Honours
 7References
 8External links

CHAPTER 2 Club career


CHAPTER 3 Early career
Born in Maceió, Alagoas, Firmino joined Figueirense's youth setup in 2008, aged 17, after starting out
at CRB.[6] He was discovered by a dentist, Marcellus Portella.[7] With the latter, he was mainly used as
a defensive midfielder.[8]
Firmino made his professional debut on 24 October 2009, coming on as a half-time substitute for
Toninho in a 1–2 home loss against Ponte Preta, for the Série B championship.[9] In January 2010 he
was promoted to the main squad.
Firmino scored his first professional goal on 8 May 2010, netting the winner in an away success
against São Caetano.[10] He contributed with eight goals in 36 appearances during the season,
as Figueira returned to Série A after a two-year absence.

CHAPTER 4 Hoffenheim
Firmino playing for 1899 Hoffenheim in 2014

Firmino signed with Hoffenheim in December 2010, with the contract running until June 2015.[11] He
formally arrived at Hoffenheim on 1 January 2011.[12] Then Hoffenheim manager Ernst Tanner
commented that they were "pleased to hire a Brazilian talent".[13] He made his debut a month later in
a Bundesliga defeat against Mainz, where he came on as a 75th-minute substitute for Sebastian Rudy.
[3]
 He scored his first goal for the club on 16 April, the only goal of a league victory against Eintracht
Frankfurt.[14]
He was dropped from the first-team squad along with Chinedu Obasi at the end of November 2011 for
showing up late for training, missing the league match against Bayer Leverkusen.[15] He scored two
more goals that season, against Wolfsburg and Borussia Mönchengladbach.[3] In the 2012–13 season,
Firmino made 36 appearances and scored seven goals.[3]
In July 2013, Russian club Lokomotiv Moscow made a €12 million bid for Firmino.[16] Hoffenheim
captain Andreas Beck hailed Firmino's development as "outstanding" in August 2013.[17] On 27 March
2014, Firmino extended his contract with the club, signing a three-year extension.[18] He finished
the 2013–14 Bundesliga season tied as the fourth highest scorer with 16 goals,[19] and was named the
league's Breakthrough Player

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