Jean (footballer, born June 1995)

Jean
Personal information
Full name Jean Carlos de Brito
Date of birth (1995-06-09) 9 June 1995 (age 29)
Place of birth Goiânia, Brazil
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s) Left midfielder[1]
Youth career
Goiás
Osasuna
Palmeiras
Formosa
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2017 CRAC 8 (1)
2017 Paysandu 4 (0)
2018–2019 Tubarão 24 (0)
2018 → Sport Recife (loan) 0 (0)
2019–2021 Hammarby IF 5 (0)
2019 → IK Frej (loan) 9 (0)
2020 → TPS (loan) 10 (1)
2021 Varbergs BoIS 23 (0)
2022–2023 IFK Norrköping 8 (0)
2023 → Horsens (loan) 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 12 November 2023

Jean Carlos de Brito (born 9 June 1995), commonly known as Jean (Brazilian Portuguese: [ʒeˈan, ʒan, ʒeˈɐ̃w, ʒɐ̃w]),[2] is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a left midfielder. A versatile player, he is also able to play as a central midfielder and as a left winger.[3][4]

Career

Youth years

Born in Goiânia, Brazil, Jean first started to play youth football with local club Goiás. He also went on to represent Spanish club Osasuna, Palmeiras and Formosa during his youth years.[5]

Brazil

Jean emerged into playing regular first team football in 2017, spending part of the year at CRAC and Paysandu.[5] He featured in the 2017 Copa Verde campaign, where Paysandu finished runners-up following a 4–2 aggregated defeat against Luverdense Esporte Clube in the finals.[4]

He signed with Clube Atlético Tubarão on 10 January 2018,[3] and went on to make a total of 24 appearances for the club in the Série D and the Campeonato Catarinense.[4] Jean also spent three months on loan with the Sport Recife in 2018, failing to make any competitive appearances for the Série A club.[4]

Hammarby IF

On 3 February 2019, Jean transferred to Hammarby IF in Allsvenskan. He signed a three-year deal with the Swedish club for an undisclosed fee.[3][6] He was sought out as a replacement for countryman Neto Borges, who also had been bought from Tubarão the previous season.[7] However, he had difficulties breaking into the starting eleven and only made 3 appearances for Hammarby during the first half of the season. On 2 August, Jean was loaned out to affiliated club IK Frej in Superettan, Sweden's second division, for the remainder of the year.[8]

Varbergs BoIS

On 26 February 2021, Jean moved to fellow Swedish club Varbergs BoIS, on a three-year contract.[9]

IFK Norrköping

After only a season in Varberg, it was announced by IFK Norrköping in January 2022 that they had signed Jean at a three-year contract.[10]

On 21 July 2023, Jean joined Danish 1st Division side AC Horsens on a one-year loan deal with a purchase option.[11] In his debut match against AaB on July 29, 2023, Jean suffered a serious knee injury, which later turned out to be an ACL injury for the second time in his career. At the end of September 2023, Horsens confirmed that they had terminated the agreement between the parties so that he could return home to Norrköping and start his rehabilitation.[12]

References

  1. ^ Jean at WorldFootball.net
  2. ^ "Jean". Forvo. 4 February 2019. Retrieved 4 February 2019.)
  3. ^ a b c "Brasilansk duo har anslutit till Beleklägret" (in Swedish). Hammarby Fotboll. 3 February 2019. Archived from the original on 19 September 2020. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
  4. ^ a b c d "Jean". Soccerway. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
  5. ^ a b "Paysandu contrata lateral-esquerdo" (in Portuguese). Paysandu Sport Club. 10 May 2017. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
  6. ^ "Tubarão acerta venda do lateral Jean para o futebol sueco" (in Portuguese). Globo Esporte. 1 February 2019. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
  7. ^ "Hammarbys brasilianska kärlekshistoria – hyllningarna till Borges ersättare" (in Swedish). Fotbolldirekt. 3 February 2019. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
  8. ^ "Jean lånas ut till IK Frej" (in Swedish). Hammarby Fotboll. 2 August 2019. Archived from the original on 27 October 2021. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
  9. ^ "Jean till Varbergs BoIS" (in Swedish). Hammarby Fotboll. 26 February 2021. Archived from the original on 17 April 2021. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
  10. ^ Östergötland, P4 (13 January 2022). "de Brito klar för IFK Norrköping". Sveriges radio (in Swedish). Retrieved 17 January 2022.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  11. ^ AC HORSENS LEJER BRASILIANSK RAKET I IFK NORRKÖPING, achorsens.dk, 21 July 2023
  12. ^ JEAN CARLOS DE BRITO ER TILBAGE I IFK NORRKÖPING, achorsens.dk, 28 September 2023