Gerson Rodrigues

Gerson Rodrigues Correia Leal (born 20 June 1995) is a Luxembourgian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Al-Wehda on loan from Ukrainian Premier League club Dynamo Kyiv, and the Luxembourg national team.

A goalscoring midfielder, Rodrigues is the first Luxembourgish footballer to play in the group stage of the UEFA Champions League.

Club Career

Early career

Rodrigues was born in the Portuguese town of Pragal, near Lisbon. He began his youth career in France with FC Metz. He was unable to make a breakthrough into the first-team squad at Metz and went on to play club football in Luxembourg for FC Swift Hesperange, Racing FC Union Luxembourg CS Fola Esch. From there, he moved to SC Telstar in the Netherlands.

On 30 January 2018, Rodrigues signed for Sheriff Tiraspol. On 10 July 2018, he made his debut in the UEFA Champions League qualifying round against Torpedo Kutaisi. After winning the league title with Sheriff in Moldova, Rodrigues signed for Jubilo Iwata on 16 January 2019. He quickly became a key player for Jubilo, scoring 7 goals in 18 matches for the club.

Dynamo Kyiv

2019–20 season

On 2 August 2019, Rodrigues signed a contract with FC Dynamo Kyiv. On 31 January 2020, Rodrigues moved on loan to Ankaragucu in the Turkish Super Lig for the remainder of the season. Rodrigues and teammate Ante Kulusic were involved in a training ground dust-up in July 2020. He was removed from the squad for the following match against Galatasaray and his loan was subsequently ended. In his time with Ankaragucu, Rodrigues scored six goals and notched one assist in 11 league matches as the club finished in last place but were saved from relegation as the league was expanded to 21 clubs for the 2020–21 Super Lig season because of complications from the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey.

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