page_title: Rodrigo Tabata
section_title: Al Rayyan
hierarchical_section_title: Rodrigo Tabata / Club career / Al Rayyan
caption_attribution_description: English: Al Rayyan's Brazilian player Rordigo Tabata holds aloft the Sheikh Jassim Cup at the ASPIRE Indoor pitch. Picture by Vinod Divakaran
context_page_description: Rodrigo Barbosa Tabata or simply Rodrigo Tabata, is a professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Qatari club Al Sadd and the Qatar national football team.
context_section_description: In late 2011, the Al Rayyan administration asked Tabata, who has Japanese grandparents, 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 cannot write or read the Japanese language.
  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. He also won the player of the year award in the Qatar Stars League that season, recording 17 goals and 9 assists.
caption: Tabata after winning the 2012 Sheikh Jassim Cup
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