João Batista Nunes de Oliveira (born May 20, 1954 in Cedro de São João, SE), known as Nunes, is a former

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ian

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striker. He became a football player in 1969, at 14 years old, playing for

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's youth team. Reject by the club in 1974, at 19, he left

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towards

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( SE) to start his professional career at Confiança. His good performances granted him the 1976 Sergipe State Championship and a transference to Santa Cruz FC in the same year. There he won twice the Pernambuco State Championship (1976, 1978). In 1977, he had his first cap for

and became a regular in the National Team. Due to an injury, he was not selected to play the

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which made him miserable. Just after the World Cup, recovered from the injury, he returned to Rio de Janeiro to sign with

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but he stayed there only for a few months before signing with

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. Finally, in 1980, he transferred back to Flamengo to take part in a sensational team and make history as one of the most important forwards in the club's history. Once there he won two Brazilian National Championships (1980, 1982), the 1981

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and the 1981 Intercontinental Cup. In 1983 we went on a one-year-loan to

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and in the following year he transferred from Flamengo to Náutico, where he won another Pernambuco State Championship (1985). He would briefly return to Flamengo once again in 1987 and, although not a regular starter, he was a member of the squad that won the Brazilian league again that year. Nunes also played for

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's Boavista,

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and

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's Tiburones. Nunes retired in 1993 after winning his 4th Pernambuco State Championship - the 3rd one playing for Santa Cruz.

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