Gilbert Oliveira (born 31 May 1990) is an Indian

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who plays as a winger for

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of the

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Career

Salgaocar

Gilbert was born on 31 May 1990 in

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. He was playing in the inter-village tournaments when he was spotted and signed for

team Salgaocar S.C. and at the age of 16 was put in the u19's squad. Gilbert stayed with the under-19 squad for three years before joining the first team for the

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. Speaking about his time with the youth Gilbert said "the youth development programme was excellent! My coaches really helped me in my quality of passing, ball possession, discipline, etc." He made his debut for the Salgaocar first team on 7 December 2012 in the 2nd Round of the 2010-11 I-League season in Salgaocar's 4–3 victory over Chirag United in which he also managed to score his first two goals of his professional career. In the sixteenth round of the I-League season Gilbert scored two more goals against

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which brought his tally to five that season. In the seventeenth round Gilbert scored a goal against

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. After his first season in professional football Gilbert finished with 6 goals in 17 matches. Olivera's 2011-12 footballing season started off great for him as he started as a normal starter for Salgaocar. He started Salgaocar's first match of the season in the

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against

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where they drew 0-0. He then played in his third match of the Federation Cup on 22 September 2011 and he even scored a goal as Salgaocar won 3–0 against normal

team

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. Then on 29 September 2011 Olivera came on as a sub during the 2011 Indian Federation Cup Final win over

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. He then made his club international debut against Al-Oruba on 7 March 2012 in the

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. Salgaocar lost 0–1. He then scored his first Asian and club international goal of his career against Neftchi in his second club international game of his career on 21 March 2012.

Chennaiyin (loan)

On 18 November 2015, Oliveira was signed by

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side,

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, as a replacement for Dhanpal Ganesh.

Career statistics

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Oliveira, Gilbert Indian footballers 1990 births Living people Footballers from Goa I-League players Salgaocar FC players Chennaiyin FC players Association football wingers People from Margao