Rodrigo Tabata

Rodrigo Barbosa Tabata (born 19 November 1980) or simply Rodrigo Tabata, is a professional footballer who plays for Al Rayyan as an attacking midfielder. Born in Brazil, he played for the Qatar national team.

In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Barbosa and the second or paternal family name is Tabata.

Rodrigo Tabata
Tabata with Al Rayyan in 2012
Personal information
Full name Rodrigo Barbosa Tabata
Date of birth (1980-11-19) 19 November 1980
Place of birth Araçatuba, Brazil
Height 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s) Attacking midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Al Rayyan
Number 7
Youth career
1997–1998 Paulista
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1999 Paulista 5 (2)
2000 São Bento 7 (2)
2001 Santo André 5 (1)
2001 Ferroviário 5 (0)
2001 Inter de Limeira 6 (4)
2002 Treze 7 (3)
2002 Serrano-PB 2 (1)
2002 Ceará 3 (0)
2003 XV de Piracicaba 3 (1)
2003 América-RN 5 (2)
2003 Campinense-PB 17 (4)
2004–2005 Goiás 76 (18)
2006–2009 Santos 79 (15)
2008–2009 → Gaziantepspor (loan) 29 (12)
2009–2011 Beşiktaş 30 (2)
2011 → Al Rayyan (loan) 11 (7)
2011–2020 Al Rayyan 173 (121)
2014–2015 → Al Sadd (loan) 22 (13)
2020–2023 Al Sadd 59 (23)
2023– Al Rayyan 3 (1)
International career‡
2015–2017 Qatar 18 (2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 22 October 2023

Club career

Career in Brazil

Tabata was born in Araçatuba, Brazil. Earlier in his career, he was a journeyman and played for 11 different clubs between 1999 and 2003. In 2004, he moved to Goiás, playing the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A for the first time. His good performances helped his club finishing in 3rd place in the 2005 edition, the best position Goiás ever achieved in the top flight and qualifying for the Copa Libertadores for the first time in its history.[1]

Tabata was purchased by Santos in 2006, where he won twice the Campeonato Paulista in 2006 and 2007. In 2008, he moved abroad to Gaziantepspor in a three-year loan deal with an option to a permanent purchase.[2][3]

Gaziantepspor and Beşiktaş
Tabata playing for Beşiktaş at 2009–10

After a successful season with Gaziantepspor, Tabata moved to Beşiktaş for €8 million transfer fee.[4] The transfer caused controversy at Santos as the Brazilian club claimed that they have not received the fee from Gaziantepspor to make the deal permanent before the deal was finished between the Turkish clubs.[5]

Tabata played one full season at Beşiktaş before moving on loan to Al Rayyan in 2010, later being purchased by the Qatari side in 2011.

Al Rayyan
Tabata after winning the 2012 Sheikh Jassim Cup

In late 2011, the Al Rayyan administration asked Tabata, who has Japanese grandparents,[6][7] to obtain a Japanese passport for reasons relating to the foreign player quota of the AFC Champions League. However, Tabata failed the prerequisites as he was unable to write or read the Japanese language.[8]

He received a $100,000 cash award on 8 April 2012 for scoring a super hat-trick (4 goals) against Qatar SC in a league game to give his team an 8–2 win, which was the highest scoring game recorded in the league for the 2011–12 season.[9] He also won the player of the year award in the Qatar Stars League that season, recording 17 goals and 9 assists.[10]

Loan to Al Sadd

On 31 January 2014, he signed a loan deal with another Qatari club and title holders Al Sadd. He returned to Al Rayyan in 2015.

Al Sadd

In July 2020, Tabata signed with Al Sadd for one year.[11]

International career

After years of playing in Qatar, he became a naturalized Qatari citizen and was therefore eligible for the Brazilian and Qatari national football teams. In August 2015, Tabata was selected for the Qatar national team's camp in Austria. His unofficial debut came in a friendly against Austrian club LASK Linz on 17 August 2015.[12] He made his official debut in a FIFA World Cup qualifier match against Hong Kong in a 2–0 win.[13]

Career statistics

Club
As of 22 October 2023[14]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup Continental Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Treze 2002 Série C 20–2[lower-alpha 1]242
XV de Novembro 2003 Série A3 3100––31
América(RN) 2003 Série B 5200–052
Campinense 2003 Série C 17400–5[lower-alpha 2]179
Goiás 2004 Série A 3710514[lower-alpha 3]29[lower-alpha 2]4613
2005 398002[lower-alpha 3]04[lower-alpha 2]418
Total 76185162138734
Santos 2006 Série A 368504[lower-alpha 3]018[lower-alpha 4]26310
2007 3770010[lower-alpha 5]120[lower-alpha 4]46712
2008 60004[lower-alpha 5]011[lower-alpha 4]1211
Total 79155018149715123
Gaziantepspor 2008–09 Süper Lig 26115200003113
2009–10 3100000031
Total 29125200003414
Beşiktaş 2009–10 Süper Lig 162203[lower-alpha 6]000212
2010–11 1403010[lower-alpha 7]000270
Total 3025013000482
Al-Rayyan (loan) 2010–11 Qatar Stars League 117344[lower-alpha 8]0101911
Al-Rayyan 2011–12 Qatar Stars League 2117106[lower-alpha 8]3453225
2012–13 2211314[lower-alpha 8]1733616
2013–14 164––––562110
2014–15 Qatargas League 82144––751930
2015–16 Qatar Stars League 242123––102724
2016–17 2420346[lower-alpha 8]4203528
2017–18 2115335[lower-alpha 8]2623522
2018–19 209216[lower-alpha 8]1763517
2019–20 164211[lower-alpha 8]054249
Total 172122201728114431264181
Al-Sadd b (loan) 2014–15 Qatargas League 1100000011
Al-Sadd (loan) 2013–14 Qatar Stars League 75327[lower-alpha 8]2312010
2014–15 158––2[lower-alpha 8]011189
2019–20 41105[lower-alpha 8]111113
2020–21 2111303[lower-alpha 8]0733414
2021–22 217315[lower-alpha 8]3–2911
2022–23 134300063227
Total 813613322618912853
Al-Rayyan 2023–24 Qatar Stars League 3100002051
Career total 5072215827912011662666332

International goals
Scores and results list Qatar's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Rodrigo Tabata goal.[15]
List of international goals scored by Rodrigo Tabata
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
18 August 2016Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium, Doha, Qatar Iraq1–02–1Friendly
225 August 2016Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium, Doha, Qatar Thailand2–03–0Friendly

Honours

Santos

Al Rayyan

Al-Sadd

Individual

Notes
  1. Appearances(s) in Copa do Nordeste
  2. Goals(s) in Campeonato Paraibano
  3. Appearance(s) in Copa Sudamericana
  4. Appearance(s) in Campeonato Paulista
  5. Appearance(s) in Copa Libertadores
  6. Appearance(s) in UEFA Champions League
  7. Appearance(s) in UEFA Europa League
  8. Appearance(s) in AFC Champions League

References
  1. "Ex-Goiás, Tabata é convocado pelo Catar para jogo das Eliminatórias". O Popular. 20 March 2016.
  2. "MercadoFutebol.com". MercadoFutebol.com.
  3. "Besiktas acerta contratação do meia Rodrigo Tabata; Santos lucra". BOL.
  4. (in Turkish) Tabata Resmen Beşiktaş’ta
  5. "Dinheiro da venda de Tabata some - Diário do Grande ABC - Notícias e informações do Grande ABC: grande abc,diario do grande abc,noticias,dgabc,2010,santos,tabata". Jornal Diário do Grande ABC.
  6. "Terra | Buscador".
  7. "Em alta, Rodrigo Tabata cogita defender Japão na Copa de 2010 - 09/10/2007 - UOL Esporte - Futebol". www.uol.com.br.
  8. "الريان يفاوض محليين ويبقي على جميع المحترفين".
  9. "جائزة الهداف تحقق حلم تاباتا بشراء "ثور" برازيلي".
  10. "Brazilian attacking midfielder Rodrigo Tabata wins Qatar Stars League's best player award | Goal.com". www.goal.com.
  11. "رسميا.. السد يستعيد أسطورة الدوري القطري". Kooora (in Arabic). 28 July 2020.
  12. "Qatar draw 2–2 with LASK Linz as Rodrigo Tabata makes his debut". Gulf Times. 17 August 2015. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
  13. "FIFA". Archived from the original on 22 June 2015.
  14. Rodrigo Tabata at Soccerway
  15. "Tabata, Rodrigo". National Football Teams. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
  16. "Tabata & Aguirre named season heroes". Qatar Stars League. 13 May 2012. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
  17. "Qatar - List of Topscorers". RSSSF. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
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