Tiquinho Soares
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Soares with Santos in 2025 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Francisco das Chagas Soares dos Santos | ||
| Date of birth | 17 January 1991 | ||
| Place of birth | Sousa, Brazil | ||
| Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Santos | ||
| Number | 9 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2007–2008 | Palmeiras das Rocas | ||
| 2008 | Corinthians Alagoano | ||
| 2009 | América de Natal | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2009–2010 | América de Natal | 14 | (2) |
| 2010 | Botafogo-PB | 0 | (0) |
| 2011 | Sousa | 0 | (0) |
| 2012–2016 | CSP | 17 | (10) |
| 2012 | → Caicó (loan) | 7 | (1) |
| 2012 | → Visão Celeste (loan) | 6 | (0) |
| 2013 | → Cerâmica (loan) | 9 | (2) |
| 2013 | → Treze (loan) | 9 | (0) |
| 2014 | → Veranópolis (loan) | 16 | (4) |
| 2014 | → Pelotas (loan) | 3 | (0) |
| 2014 | → Lucena (loan) | 7 | (3) |
| 2014–2016 | → Nacional (loan) | 42 | (12) |
| 2016–2017 | Vitória Guimarães | 16 | (7) |
| 2017–2020 | Porto | 97 | (45) |
| 2020 | Tianjin TEDA | 4 | (0) |
| 2021–2022 | Olympiacos | 33 | (9) |
| 2022–2024 | Botafogo | 94 | (35) |
| 2025– | Santos | 22 | (6) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 02:09, 17 June 2025 (UTC) | |||
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Francisco das Chagas Soares dos Santos (born 17 January 1991), known as Soares or Tiquinho, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Santos.
Having started his career in the lower leagues of his homeland, he moved to Portugal aged 23. He played 155 Primeira Liga games for Nacional, Vitória de Guimarães and Porto, scoring 64 goals and winning two league titles with the last of those clubs. After winning the Super League Greece with Olympiacos in 2022, he joined Botafogo in Série A.