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Dida
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Brazilian association football player (born 1973)
Dida is a Brazilian soccer player born in 1973 who had a professional career in the sport. While specific details about his achievements aren't provided here, he represents part of Brazil's football history during that era.
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Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Position
- Midfielder
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Silva
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Italy
- Place of birth
- Irará
- Languages spoken
- Portuguese
- Participant in
- 2002 FIFA World Cup
- Sport
- beach soccer
- Member of team
- Brazil men's national football team
- Position played
- goalkeeper
- Country for sport
- Brazil
- Mass
- 85
- Image
- Dida-wikipedia (cropped 2).png
- Height
- 195
Show 11 more facts
- Commons category
- Dida
- date of birth
- 1973-10-07
- sport number
- 1
- start of work period
- 1992-00-00
- end of work period
- 2016-00-00
- different from
- Deda
- number of matches played/races/starts
- 2
- total goals in career
- 0
- number of points/goals conceded
- 3
- birth name
- Nélson de Jesus Silva
- name in native language
- Dida
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Encyclopedic overview
* Club domestic league appearances and goals
Nélson de Jesus Silva (born 7 October 1973), better known simply as Dida ( Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈdʒidɐ]), is a Brazilian former football goalkeeper and goalkeeping coach. He started his senior club career in Brazil in the early 1990s with Vitória before moving to Cruzeiro and Corinthians. He is perhaps best remembered for his ten-year stint with AC Milan from 2000 to 2010, where he established himself as one of the world's best goalkeepers and won multiple trophies and individual awards with the club, including one Serie A title (Scudetto) and twice the UEFA Champions League, with the first of those victories coming after he saved three penalties in the 2003 final against Serie A rivals Juventus, and is one of four Milan keepers with 300 career appearances. After a two-year absence from playing, he returned to Brazil in 2012, appearing for three teams—Portuguesa, Grêmio and Internacional—in as many seasons. He returned to Milan to serve as their goalkeeping coach from 2020 to 2022.
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