Luiz Gonçalo (born 5 June 1960) is a Brazilian retired

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who played in the 1980s as a

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. Gonçalo first played for

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. He joined

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's first team for their 1986–87 season under head-coach

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. Gonçalo played his domestic league debut for his new club in the home game at the

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on 8 October 1986 as Basel were defeated 0–3 by Grasshopper Club. Gonçalo scored his first goal for his club on 18 October in the

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in the home game against

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. In fact he scored two goals, the last two goals in the game as Basel won 3–1. Gonçalo scored his first league goal for his club one week later on 25 October in the home game as Basel won 1–0 against Young Boys. Although things started well for him, during the second half of the season Gonçalo didn't play another game. Gonçalo stayed only one season with the club, during this time he played a total of 14 games for Basel scoring a total of five goals. Eight of these games were in the Nationalliga A, two in the

and four were friendly games. He scored one goal in the domestic league, three goals in the

and the other was scored during the test games. Following his time with Basel, Gonçalo moved on to play for

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in the Nationalliga B, in the second tier of Swiss football.

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