Mateus Pivô
Brazilian footballer
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Mateus Cardoso Francisco (born 16 December 1997), better known as Mateus Pivô, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Portuguese club AVS, on loan from Brusque.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Mateus Cardoso Francisco[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 16 December 1997 | ||
| Place of birth | Campos dos Goytacazes, Brazil | ||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)[1] | ||
| Positions | |||
| Team information | |||
Current team | AVS (on loan) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2011–2014 | Goytacaz | ||
| 2015–2016 | Carapebus | ||
| 2016 | → Campos AA (loan) | ||
| 2017 | Grêmio | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2018 | Cianorte | ||
| 2018 | Carapebus | ||
| 2018–2019 | Hercílio Luz | ||
| 2019 | Grêmio Anápolis | ||
| 2019 | Marília | ||
| 2020 | Operário-MT | ||
| 2020 | Azuriz | ||
| 2021 | Vitória-ES | 11 | (0) |
| 2021–2022 | Democrata-GV | 24 | (0) |
| 2022 | Passo Fundo | 25 | (5) |
| 2022 | Ferroviário | 4 | (0) |
| 2023 | São José-RS | 11 | (4) |
| 2023– | Sampaio Corrêa | 1 | (0) |
| 2024 | → Vila Nova (loan) | 15 | (0) |
| 2024 | → Brusque (loan) | 28 | (3) |
| 2025– | Brusque | 32 | (1) |
| 2026– | → AVS (loan) | 14 | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 25 May 2026 | |||
Career
Mateus started his career as a futsal player, acting as a pivot, from which his nickname derives. On the field, he played as a winger for the youth teams of Goytacaz, Carapebus, Campos AA and Grêmio. [2]
As a professional, he played for several clubs, having started his career at Cianorte, and being champion of minor divisions with Azuriz in Paraná. Over the years he started to play as a right back, a position that made him famous for competing in the divisions of the Brazilian Championship, having played for Ferroviário,[3] São José-RS[2] and Sampaio Corrêa, which holds his federative rights.[4]
In 2024, he was loaned to Vila Nova to compete in the Campeonato Goiano,[5] and in April, he was loaned again to Brusque to compete in the 2024 Campeonato Brasileiro Série B.[6][7] In 2025, Pivô was definitively acquired by Brusque.[8]
Honours
Azuriz