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Cafu
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Marcos Evangelista de Morais (born 7 June 1970), known as Cafu (), is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a right-back. Widely regarded as one of the greatest full-backs of all time, he is known for his pace and energetic attacking runs along the right flank. He is the most-capped player for the Brazil national team with 142 appearances.
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Marcos Evangelista de Morais, known as Cafu, is a Brazilian former association football player who played as a full-back. Born on June 7, 1970, in Itaquaquecetuba, São Paulo, he represented Brazil in the 1994, 1998, 2002, and 2006 FIFA World Cups. During his club career, he was a member of Real Zaragoza, AS Roma, Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras, and São Paulo FC. His professional work period ended on May 18, 2008.
The name Cafu is also associated with other creative fields. In music, Cafu is an artist tagged with progressive psytrance, psytrance, and psychedelic trance. In publishing, an author named Cafu has written sixteen works, including *Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 1* and *Venom by Al Ewing Vol. 7*.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 16
Top works
- Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 1
- Venom by Al Ewing Vol. 7
- Venom by Al Ewing Vol. 6
- Bringers of Storm
- Avengers Universe N°03
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Listeners · Last.fm
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- Total plays
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Tags
CAFU is a new upcoming talent from Lucerne, Switzerland. His first released tune ‘Lockstoff’ went arount the progressive dancefloors in the past year. Cafu started his musical carreer at young age with playing trumpet and drums. Later on he used to play in bands which differed in style from funky-bluesrock to hard metal and he took lessons in a jazz school. Later, in the year 1997 he got in touch with electronic music and started Dj’ing Trance and Psy-Trance. <a href="https://www.last.fm/mus
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Key facts
- Football biography.name
- Cafu
- Football biography.image
- 14 06 2019 Abertura da Copa América Brasil 2019 (48064408836) (cropped).jpg
- Football biography.caption
- Cafu at the 2019 Copa América
- Football biography.fullname
- Marcos Evangelista de Morais
- Football biography.birth_place
- Itaquaquecetuba, São Paulo, Brazil
- Football biography.height
- 1.76 m
- Football biography.position
- Right-back
- Football biography.youthclubs1
- Portuguesa
- Football biography.youthclubs2
- Juventus-SP
- Football biography.youthyears3
- 1988–1990
- Football biography.youthclubs3
- São Paulo
- Football biography.years1
- 1989–1995
- Football biography.clubs1
- São Paulo
- Football biography.caps1
- 216
- Football biography.goals1
- 33
- Football biography.years2
- 1995
- Football biography.clubs2
- → Zaragoza (loan)
- Football biography.caps2
- 16
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Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Team
- _Retired Soccer
- Position
- Right-Back
- Nationality
- Brazil
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~17 min read
Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Early life
- Club career
- Passport controversy
- International career
- Style of play
- Personal life
- Career statistics
- Club
- International
- Honours
- Orders
- See also
- References
- External links
Marcos Evangelista de Morais (born 7 June 1970), known as Cafu (), is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a right-back. Widely regarded as one of the greatest full-backs of all time, he is known for his pace and energetic attacking runs along the right flank. He is the most-capped player for the Brazil national team with 142 appearances.
At club level, Cafu won several domestic and international titles while playing in Brazil, Spain, and Italy; he is best known for his spells at São Paulo (1989–1995), Roma (1997–2003), and AC Milan (2003–08), teams with which he made history, although he also played briefly for Zaragoza, Juventude, and Palmeiras during a two-year spell from 1995 to 1997. In 1994, Cafu was crowned South American Footballer of the Year, and in 2004, was named by Pelé in the FIFA 100 list of the world's greatest living players. He was additionally named in the FIFPro World XI in 2005, and in 2020 was included in the Ballon d'Or Dream Team.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cafu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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