Luciano Rocha is a Brazilian

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er.

Biography

Rocha is a Paralympic footballer who won

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for being a participant at

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and was awarded

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for

2004 Summer Paralympics ) , nations = 136 , athletes = 3,806 , events = 519 in 19 sports , opening = 17 September , closing = 28 September , opened_by = President Costis Stephanopoulos , cauldron = Georgios Toptsis , stadium = Olympic ...

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. During the 2004 season he have scored 4th goal when played against

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, which led his team to 4–0 win, but because of a brawl ended up in 4–1 defeat.

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