Paulo de Almeida (15 September 1933 – 8 November 2013), better known as Paulinho, was a Brazilian professional

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who played as a forward.

Career

Born in Campos do Goytacazes, Paulinho began his career at Goytacaz FC. In a short time, he was hired by Flamengo, and for the club he played 144 matches and scored 58 goals, being state champion in 1953, 1954 and 1955 as top scorer. In 1957 he transferred to Palmeiras, where he was again state champion in 1959. Paulinho ended his career in Argentine football, after discreet spells at River Plate and Estudiantes.

International career

Paulinho was part of the group that competed in the 1952 Olympics in

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, despite not taking part in any match. In 1956, he participated in some friendlies for the main Brazil national team, alongside his namesake Paulinho de Almeida, scoring a goal against

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Honours

;Flamengo *

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1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito ...

1954 Events January * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown–IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York, at the head ...

1955 Events January * January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama. * January 17 – , the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut. * January 18– 20 – Battle of Yijian ...

* Taça dos Campeões Estaduais Rio-São Paulo: 1955 ;Palmeiras *

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1959 Events January * January 1 – Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 – Soviet lunar probe Luna 1 is the first human-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reaches the ...

;Individual *1955 Campeonato Carioca top scorer: 23 goals

Death

Paulinho passed away on 8 November 2013 at Santa Casa da Misericórdia de

Campos dos Goytacazes Campos dos Goytacazes () is a city located in the northern region of Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, with a population of 483,540 inhabitants. It is the largest city in Rio de Janeiro (state) outside of the Greater Rio de Janeiro metropolitan ar ...

, victim of

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References

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