Evanivaldo Castro Silva, also known as Cabinho (born April 28, 1948) is a Brazilian-born former professional

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who played as forward. He gained his greatest professional fame in

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, he is also a Mexican naturalized citizen.

Beginnings and Mexican league

Cabinho began his career at América (SP), in 1968. In 1969 Cabinho played for the popular Brazilian club

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, where he played six matches and scored one goal.ASSAF, Roberto, MARTINS, Clóvis. ''Almanaque do Flamengo Placar''. Editora Abril: São Paulo: 2001 Cabinho arrived in

on July 19, 1974. During his first season, despite not playing to the best of his abilities, scored a total of 16 goals. This was just a taste prior to becoming one of the best goal scorers in Mexican soccer history, winning a total of 8 scoring titles (7 consecutively). Throughout his stint in México, Cabinho scored a total of 312 goals. Evanivaldo Castro was known as "Cabo" or "Cabinho" (Corporal) due to his partial taste for military camouflage clothing. Cabinho was

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' maximum goal scorer in 4 seasons: 1975/76 (29), 76/77 (34), 77/78 (33), and 78/79 sharing the scoring title with

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with 26 goals. While playing for Pumas, Cabinho achieved the Mexican Championship Title for the first time in July 1977, under the management of Jorge Marik. Cabinho played for UNAM for five consecutive seasons (1974–1979), he then went on to play for another of

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's great teams,

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At Atlante, he was the maximum goal scorer of the championship three times, seasons 79/80 (30), 80/81 (29) and 81/82 (32). He scored a total of 102 goals while playing for Potros de Hierro (Iron Colts) of

His next stint was at León. With the team he reached the semi-finals in the 84-85 season, under the management of Hungarian coach Árpád Fekete. The semi-finals were played against his old team, Pumas de la UNAM. That year he also achieved his last Top Scorer Championship with 23 goals.

Later career

In 1986, after a one-season stint in Brazilian team Paysandu, Cabinho returned to play in México; this time he joined

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, in the Northern city of Monterrey. Here he played until his retirement as an active player. In all, during his playing career in México, Cabinho played a total of 415 games with 312 goals scored; with an impressive average of 0.75 goals per game. After the end of his playing career Cabinho took up coaching and managed México's second division team

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. He became Mexican citizen.

Honours

References

External links

List of his goalsEvanivaldo Castro (Cabinho)Profile at Globo Esporte's Futpedia
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cabinho 1948 births Living people Brazilian footballers Brazilian emigrants to Mexico Naturalized citizens of Mexico Liga MX players CR Flamengo footballers Club Universidad Nacional footballers Atlante F.C. footballers Paysandu Sport Club players Tigres UANL footballers Club León footballers América Futebol Clube (SP) players Associação Portuguesa de Desportos players Clube Atlético Mineiro players Association football forwards Sportspeople from Salvador, Bahia