José Rogério de Oliveira Melo (born 24 December 1990 in Pesqueira, Brazil), commonly known as Rogério, is a Brazilian footballer who currently plays as a striker for UAE League side Al Dhafra on loan from Náutico.
Pesqueira, Pernambuco, a municipality of the Brazilian state of Pernambuco
In the late 1960s he began writing poetry and developed friendships with the writer Álvaro Cunqueiro and the painters Laxeiro and Manuel Pesqueira, who would become formative influences.
Born into a prominent family in Cimbres, province of Pernambuco, in the Northeast of Brazil, he showed an early vocation for the priesthood but the absence of local seminaries meant that he did all his studies prior to becoming a priest in Rome.