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Brenno (footballer)

Brazilian footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ66685106 ↗
Source-derived summary

Brenno Oliveira Fraga Costa (born 1 April 1999), simply known as Brenno, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Campeonato Brasileiro Série B club Sport Recife.

Club career

A youth product of Desportivo Brasil, Brenno signed with Grêmio in 2017. Brenno made his professional debut with Grêmio in a 1–0 Campeonato Gaúcho win over Internacional on 17 March 2019.

On 13 August 2023, Brenno joined Bari in Italy on loan with an option to buy.

International career

On 17 June 2021, Brenno was named in the Brazil squad for the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Brenno (footballer)” is brazilian footballer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Brenno, footballer and Brazilian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1999, 2017, 2019, 2023—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1999-04-01. For this dossier, Brenno, footballer and Brazilian is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “brazilian footballer” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q66685106. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1999, 2017, 2019 and 2023.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Brenno (footballer)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.