Rafael dos Santos Carvalheira Natividade (born 26 May 1999) is a Brazilian footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Chapecoense.
Born in Rio de Janeiro, Carvalheira was a Flamengo youth graduate.
[1] After making his senior debut with Globo, Carvalheira spent the rest of the 2019 campaign on loan at Ceará, but with their under-23 team.
[4] On 29 December, he renewed his contract with Ceará until the end of the 2021 Cearense,[5] but did not feature for the first team until leaving for Cianorte on 30 April 2021.
[7] After being the club's top scorer in the Campeonato Gaúcho Série A2, he moved to Brasil de Pelotas on 20 May,[8] but returned to Passo Fundo on loan in September for the Copa FGF.