Full name Mateus Lima Cruz Current team Kukesi Playing position | Height 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) Place of birth Iturama, Brazil Name Mateus Cruz | |
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Date of birth (1993-01-18) 18 January 1993 (age 22) | ||
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Mateus Lima Cruz (born 18 January 1993), known as Mateus Lima, is Brazilian footballer who plays as a forward.
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Club career
Born in Iturama, Minas Gerais, Lima was a Grêmio Barueri youth graduate. After a short loan spell at Sport Barueri, he made his professional debut on 17 November 2012, starting in a 2–0 home win against Avaí for the Série B championship.
On 4 February 2013 Lima moved to Sport Recife. After only appearing for the club in the Campeonato Pernambucano, he joined Guarani on 10 December.
On 16 January 2014, Lima signed for Luverdense. He scored his first professional goal on 19 November, but in a 1–2 home loss against América Mineiro; he added another ten days later, netting the game's only in a home success over Ceará.
On 20 February 2015, Lima agreed to a contract with Operário Ferroviário. He was crowned champions of the year's Campeonato Paranaense, but appeared rarely.
In June 2015, Lima signed with Albanian Champions Skënderbeu Korçë as a reinforcement for the club's campaign in Champions League after the departures of Aco Stojkov, Dhiego Martins and Fatjon Sefa. The Brazilian striker was also a target of FK Kukësi. In his unofficial debut on 16 June, Lima scored in his debut after 29 minutes in an eventual 2–1 win against Romanian side. Despite scoring in his debut, however, he not been named in Skënderbeu's squad list for the first qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League because he did not convinced his coach Mirel Josa with his appearances.
In July 2015, after just one month with Skënderbeu Korçë, Lima left the club and signed with Kukesi. In the 2015–16 campaign, he scored seven league goals in 27 league appearances, along with three goals in the Albanian Cup.
In July 2016, Lima joined Santos, and was assigned to the B-team squad.