Emmanuel Danilo Clementino Silva (born 5 March 1982), known as Danilo, is a retired

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who played as a goalkeeper. Born in Brazil, he was a member, as a naturalized citizen, of the Equatorial Guinea national team.

Biography

Danilo was born in Caruaru, a city located in the eastern of the Brazilian state of

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Football career

Danilo started his career in the Sport Recife's low divisions. In 2004, was loaned to Campinense and won the Campeonato Paraibano. Danilo had received an offer to play in the Spanish club Numancia, but he wasn't signed because this team already had three foreign players. He also has been linked to play in the Chinese football.Diário de Pernambuco
In 2013, while at the

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ranks, Danilo was diagnosed with

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and stayed in coma for 10 days, with doctors saying that he had 1% chance of surviving. However, he had fully recovered and resumed his professional career.

International career

Danilo is naturalized Equatoguinean since 2006, when Antônio Dumas (Brazilian coach who naturalized Brazilian footballers for Togo and Equatorial Guinea) was the coach of the

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. Since that time, Danilo has been consolidated in the goal of his new home. His better moment with the Nzalang Nacional (Equatorial Guinea national team's nickname) was against

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in the

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, on 9 September 2007. He played in unofficial matches vs. the

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and

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in 2007La selección extremeña inicia su andadura con una victoria (Extremaduran autonomous team gets going with win)
and against

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in 2011.

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Danilo on meuSport
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