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Roberto (footballer, Born 1977)
Roberto Alcântara Ballesteros (born 25 July 1977), known simply as Roberto, is a Brazilian former footballer who played as a striker. He spent the vast majority of his professional career in Portugal, representing four clubs and amassing Primeira Liga totals of 83 matches and 19 goals over four seasons. Club career Born in Osasco, São Paulo, Roberto played mainly for Volta Redonda Futebol Clube in his country, also being loaned twice during his contract. In February 2003, he moved to Portugal and joined F.C. Penafiel, scoring 20 second division goals in his first full season, which ended in Primeira Liga promotion. He netted only 13 the following two combined, however, with the team being relegated in 2006. Roberto then returned to the Portuguese second level, with Leixões SC, scoring 17 goals in 30 games in his first year ''en route'' to another promotion. After an average 2007–08, he could only appear in three matches the following campaign as the Matosinhos side ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osasco
Osasco () is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil, located in the Greater São Paulo area and ranking fifth in population among São Paulo municipalities. According to the IBGE 2015, Osasco currently has the ninth highest gross domestic product in Brazil, and the second largest in the state of São Paulo. The population is 699,944 (2020 est.) in an area of . It is among the world's more densely populated cities, similar in density to Tokyo and New York City. It is considered the major urban centre of the western portion of Greater São Paulo. It was a district of the city of São Paulo until February 19, 1962, when Osasco became a municipality of its own.IBGE , history The city motto is ''Urbs labor'', a phrase that means "City work. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008–09 Primeira Liga
The 2008–09 Primeira Liga was the 75th season of the Primeira Liga, the top professional league for Portuguese association football clubs. It began on 22 August 2008 and ended on 24 May 2009. Porto was the three-time defending champions and secured a fourth consecutive title for the second time in its history. Promotion and relegation Teams relegated to Liga de Honra * Boavista * União de Leiria União de Leiria have been relegated to the Liga de Honra after finishing in last place in 2007–08 Primeira Liga. Boavista were also relegated as a punishment for their participation in a match fixing scandal in 2003–04 season. Accordingly, Paços de Ferreira, which was originally scheduled to be relegated, was saved from demotion. Teams promoted from Liga de Honra * Trofense * Rio Ave Leiria and Boavista were replaced by two promoted teams from Liga de Honra. The first was Trofense, which clinched the second level title. This was its first appearance in Primeira Liga. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volta Redonda FC Players
Volta may refer to: Persons * Alessandro Volta (1745–1827), Italian physicist and inventor of the electric battery, count and eponym of the volt * Giovanni Volta (1928–2012), Italian Roman Catholic bishop * Giovanni Serafino Volta (1764–1842) Italian priest, naturalist and paleontologist * Massimo Volta (born 1987), Italian footballer * Leopoldo Camillo Volta (1751–1823) Italian librarian and historian of Mantua Places * Volta, California, a census-designated place in Merced County, California, US * Volta Mantovana, an Italian municipality in the Lombardy region * Porta Volta, a former city gate of Milan, Italy * Volta Grande, a Brazilian municipality in the Minas Gerais state * Volta Redonda, a Brazilian municipality in the Rio de Janeiro state * Upper Volta (other) * Lake Volta, in Ghana * Volta Region, in Ghana * Volta River, primarily flowing in Ghana, with its headstreams: ** White Volta ** Red Volta ** Black Volta * Volta (crater), a crater on the M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazilian Men's Footballers
Brazilian commonly refers to: * Brazil, a country * Brazilians, its people * Brazilian Portuguese, its dialect Brazilian may also refer to: * "The Brazilian", a 1986 instrumental music piece by Genesis * Brazilian Café, Baghdad, Iraq (1937) * Brazilian cuisine ** Churrasco, or Brazilian barbecue * Brazilian-cut bikini, a swimsuit revealing the buttocks * Brazilian waxing, a style of pubic hair removal * Mamelodi Sundowns F.C., a South African football club nicknamed ''The Brazilians'' See also * Brazil (other) * ''Brasileiro ''Brasileiro'' is a 1992 album by Sérgio Mendes and other artists including Carlinhos Brown which won the 1993 Grammy Award for Best World Music Album. It marked Mendes's return to Elektra Records since 1979's ''Magic Lady'' with Brasil '8 ...'', a 1992 album by Sergio Mendes * Brazilian jiu-jitsu, a martial art and combat sport system * Culture of Brazil * Football in Brazil {{Disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Footballers From Osasco
A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby league, and rugby union. It has been estimated that there are 250 million association football players in the world, and many play other forms of football. Career Jean-Pierre Papin has described football as a "universal language". Footballers across the world and at almost any level may regularly attract large crowds of spectators, and players are the focal points of widespread social phenomena such as association football culture. Footballers usually begin as amateurs and the best players progress to become professional players. Normally they start at a youth team (any local team) and from there, based on skill and talent, scouts offer contracts. Once signed, some learn to play better football and a few advance to the senior or profession ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1977 Births
Events January * January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). * January 17 – 49 marines from the and are killed as a result of a collision in Barcelona harbour, Spain. * January 18 ** Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease. ** Australia's worst railway disaster at Granville, a suburb of Sydney, leaves 83 people dead. ** SFR Yugoslavia Prime minister Džemal Bijedić, his wife and 6 others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina. * January 19 – An Ejército del Aire CASA C-207C Azor (registration T.7-15) plane crashes into the side of a mountain near Chiva, on approach to Valencia Airport in Spain, killing all 11 people on board. * January 23 – Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jornal De Notícias
(; ; shortened to JN) is a Portuguese daily national newspaper, one of the oldest in Portugal. History and profile ''JN'' was founded in Porto and was first published on 21 June 1888. It was one of two Portuguese newspapers published in Angola Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-Central Africa, central coast of Southern Africa. It is the second-largest Portuguese-speaking world, Portuguese-speaking (Lusophone) country in both total area and List of c ... during the colonial rule. The other was '' Diário Popular''. ''JN'' has since become one of the most popular newspapers, especially after the Carnation Revolution. Following the Carnation revolution, ''JN'' was nationalized and later privatized in the early 1990s. Then the paper and '' Diário de Notícias'' were sold to the Lusomundo group. In 2005 the Controlinveste group bought papers. Both papers are now owned by Global Media Group, which was named Controlinveste Media until Jan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2010–11 Liga De Honra
The 2010–11 Liga de Honra season was the 21st season of the second-tier football in Portugal. A total of 16 teams will contest the league, 12 of which already contested in the 2009–10 Liga de Honra, 2009–10, and two of which were promoted from the Portuguese Second Division, and two of which were relegated from 2009–10 Portuguese Liga, 2009–10. The official ball is Adidas Jabulani. Changes in 2010–11 Team changes Teams relegated from 2009–10 Primeira Liga * 15th Place: C.F. Os Belenenses, Belenenses * 16th Place: Leixões S.C., Leixões Teams promoted to 2010–11 Portuguese Liga * Champions: S.C. Beira-Mar, Beira-Mar * Runners-up: Portimonense S.C., Portimonense Teams promoted from 2009–10 Segunda Divisão * Champions: F.C. Arouca, Arouca * Runners-up: Moreirense F.C., Moreirense Teams relegated to 2010–11 Segunda Divisão * 15th Place: G.D. Chaves, Chaves * 16th Place: A.D. Carregado, Carregado Personnel and kits Managerial changes League table P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
