Antônio Rinaldo Gonçalves, commonly known simply as Rinaldo (born 31 October 1966) is a Brazilian former
footballer
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. He played for several
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
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clubs.
He also played for
Portuguese Liga
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clubs and for the
Brazil national team.
Career
Born in
Campina Grande
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, Paraíba state, Rinaldo started his professional career playing for
Campinense, then moving to their rivals
Treze.
He played 36
Série A games for
Santa Cruz between 1987 and 1988, scoring five goals.
He then joined
Fluminense, playing 21 Série A games and scoring seven goals for the
Rio de Janeiro
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-based club.
With
São Paulo
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, Rinaldo played 15 Série A games, scoring two goals, between 1991 and 1992.
Including other competition games, he played 28 games for São Paulo, and scored four goals.
In
1992
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, he played four
Copa do Brasil
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games for
Sport Recife, scoring four goals.
He left the club after the
1993 season
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.
After leaving Sport Recife, he played for
Portuguesa, then
Portuguese Liga
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clubs
Marítimo and
Moreirense,
Juventude, and in 1994
Kärnten of Austria,
when he retired and moved to
Recife
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city.
National team
Rinaldo played only one game for the
Brazil national team, in 1990.
It was a friendly game against a Rest of the World combined team to celebrate
Pelé
Edson Arantes do Nascimento (; 23 October 1940 – 29 December 2022), better known by his nickname Pelé (), was a Brazilian professional Association football, footballer who played as a Forward (association football), forward. Widely reg ...
's 50th birthday.
The game was played on 31 October 1990, at
Stadio San Siro, Milan, Italy, and Brazil was defeated 2–1.
The game is notorious because after Rinaldo received a pass from Pelé, instead of returning the ball to him, he shot the ball, missing the goal, and preventing Pelé from scoring his 1282nd goal.
References
External links
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1966 births
Living people
Brazilian men's footballers
Brazilian expatriate men's footballers
Brazil men's international footballers
Campinense Clube players
Treze Futebol Clube players
Santa Cruz Futebol Clube players
Fluminense FC players
São Paulo FC players
Copa Libertadores–winning players
Sport Club do Recife players
Associação Portuguesa de Desportos players
C.S. Marítimo players
Esporte Clube Juventude players
J1 League players
Gamba Osaka players
Expatriate men's footballers in Austria
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Hong Kong
Expatriate men's footballers in Portugal
Expatriate men's footballers in Hong Kong
Expatriate men's footballers in Japan
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Austria
Men's association football forwards
Footballers from Campina Grande
20th-century Brazilian sportsmen
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Japan