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Roberto Carlos
File:Roberto Carlosa.jpg
Personal information
Full name Roberto Carlos da Silva Rocha[1]
Height 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Position(s) Left wingback
Team information
Current team
 Fenerbahçe
Number 3
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1990–1993 União São João
1993–1995 Palmeiras
1995–1996 Internazionale
1996–2007 Real Madrid
2007– Fenerbahçe
International career‡
1992–2006 Brazil
Medal record
Representing  Brazil
Men's Football
Bronze medal – third place 1996 Atlanta Team Competition
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of April 29, 2009
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of October 6, 2007

Roberto Carlos da Silva Rocha (born April 10, 1973 Garça, São Paulo, Brazil), known simply as Roberto Carlos, is a Brazilian footballer who currently plays for Turkish club Fenerbahçe,[2] normally as a wingback. Carlos was a member of the Brazil national team in three World Cups, helping the team reach the final in the 1998 competition and win the 2002 tournament. He is also known for his trademark free kicks and explosive strikes.

Before joining Fenerbahçe, he played for Spanish club Real Madrid for eleven years, winning four leagues, three UEFA Champions League trophies, and two Intercontinental Cups. He is also one of only six players to have played more than one hundred matches in the Champions League, as of February 2008.[3]

He finished second to countryman Ronaldo in the 1997 FIFA World Player of the Year award poll and was named as one of the top 125 greatest living footballers by Pelé in March 2004. Encyclopædia Britannica heralds Roberto Carlos as an excellent exponent of the wingback position.[4]

Club career

União São João (1990–1993)

Roberto began his professional career playing for União São João, a football club based in Araras (São Paulo State). Despite playing at what was seen as a lesser club, he was called up for the Brazil national football team.

Palmeiras (1993–1995)

In Palmeiras Roberto Carlos was recognized as one of the greats of Brazilian football, winning two consecutive Brazilian Leagues.

Internazionale (1995–1996)

After almost signing for Bryan Robson's Middlesbrough side in 1995, Roberto Carlos chose a move to Internazionale, playing for the Nerazzurri for one season. The then coach of Inter, Roy Hodgson wanted him to play as a left winger but Carlos preferred to play only as a left back.

Real Madrid (1996–2007)

Roberto Carlos played at Real eleven seasons, playing a total of 584 matches and scoring 71 goals in all competitions. 370 of them were league matches, in which he scored 46 goals from his left-back position. He famously set up Zinédine Zidane to score the winner for Real Madrid to win the Champions League in 2002. His consistently high standard and dynamic displays saw him voted into the uefa.com users' UEFA Team of the Year in 2002 and 2003.[5]

On August 2, 2005, Carlos received dual Spanish and Brazilian citizenship. This proved important for Real Madrid, as it meant that he now counted as a European Union player. In January 2006, he set a club record for the most league matches played by a non-Spanish born player by making his 330th appearance for Madrid. He broke the previous mark of 329 held by Alfredo di Stéfano.[6]

Having played 30 or more league matches for ten consecutive seasons and being one of the most consistent players in the squad, he was heavily criticized for conceding the ball early during the second leg of the Champions League round of sixteen against Bayern Munich, which led to Roy Makaay's goal, the quickest goal in the tournament's history. On March 9, 2007, he announced his decision to not renew his contract with Real Madrid. But in one of the last few games of the season in the dying seconds against Huelva, Fernando Gago played a beautiful pass and Carlos slotted it home. As a result, Real Madrid were on course for their 30th La Liga championship. He was linked with a move to Chelsea in the summer of 2006.[7]

Fenerbahçe (2007–2009)

On June 19, 2007, Roberto Carlos signed a two year contract and one year optional with the Turkish Super League Champions Fenerbahçe at the stadium in front of thousands of fans.[8][9] In the first official match he played with the team, Fenerbahçe won the Turkish Super Cup against Beşiktaş by 2 goals. During a league match against Sivasspor, he scored his first goal for Fenerbahçe on August 25, 2007 on a flying header, which was only the third headed goal of his career.

He was injured during the final period of the same season and missed the title race between Fenerbahçe and Galatasaray.[10] His team eventually lost the title to their rivals, while guaranteeing a place for themselves in Champions League knockouts for the next season. He announced that he was unhappy about the final result and would do his best to carry the domestic trophy back to Şükrü Saraçoğlu.[11]

National team

Roberto Carlos amassed 125 caps, scoring 11 goals[12] for the Brazilian national team. At the 1998 FIFA World Cup, he played seven matches, including the final loss to France. After a qualifying game for the 2002 FIFA World Cup, Paraguay goalkeeper José Luis Chilavert spat on Roberto Carlos, an action which caused FIFA to give Chilavert a three-match suspension and forced him to watch the first game of the World Cup from the stands. Roberto Carlos also played seven matches in the finals, scoring a goal from a free kick against China. He also was a starter in the final against Germany, with Brazil winning 2-0.

He is especially famous for a free kick against France in the inaugural match of Tournoi de France 1997, on June 3, 1997. He shot from 35 m (115 ft) from the centre-right channel, and scored. The ball curved so much that the ball boy 10 yards to the right ducked instinctively, thinking that the ball would hit him. Instead, it eventually curled back on target, much to the surprise of goalkeeper Fabien Barthez, who just stood in place. [1]

After the elimination by France in the quarterfinal of the 2006 FIFA World Cup, he announced his retirement from international football.

Statistics

As of August 25, 2010

Template:Football player statistics 1 Template:Football player statistics 2 |- |1993||rowspan="3"|Palmeiras||rowspan="3"|Série A||20||1||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||20||1 |- |1994||24||2||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||24||2 |- |1995||24||2||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||24||2 Template:Football player statistics 2 |- |1995-96||Internazionale||Serie A||30||5||2||1||2||1||34||7 Template:Football player statistics 2 |- |1996-97||rowspan="11"|Real Madrid||rowspan="11"|La Liga||37||5||5||0||colspan="2"|-||42||5 |- |1997-98||35||4||1||1||9||2||45||7 |- |1998-99||35||5||4||0||8||0||47||5 |- |1999-00||35||4||3||0||17||3||55||7 |- |2000-01||36||5||0||0||14||4||50||9 |- |2001-02||31||2||6||1||13||2||50||5 |- |2002-03||36||5||1||0||18||2||55||7 |- |2003-04||33||6||7||1||8||2||48||9 |- |2004-05||34||3||2||0||9||1||45||4 |- |2005-06||35||5||3||1||7||0||45||6 |- |2006-07||23||3||1||0||8||0||32||3 Template:Football player statistics 2 |- |2007-08||rowspan="3"|Fenerbahçe||rowspan="3"|Süper Lig||22||2||3||0||9||0||34||3 |- |2008-09||33||3||6||2||10||1||39||6 |- |2009-10||2||0||0||0||2||1||4||1 Template:Football player statistics 368||5||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||68||5 Template:Football player statistics 430||5||2||1||2||1||34||7 Template:Football player statistics 4370||47||34||4||111||16||514||67 Template:Football player statistics 457||5||9||2||21||2||77||10 Template:Football player statistics 5513||62||45||7||132||18||701||92 |}

Honours

Club

Country

Individual

References

  1. ^ "Roberto Carlos Turkish Football Federation info"
  2. ^ "Fenerbahce seal Carlos deal"
  3. ^ The others are Paolo Maldini, Raúl, Oliver Kahn, David Beckham and Ryan Giggs.
  4. ^ wingbackto
  5. ^ http://www.footballdatabase.com/index.php?page=player&Id=1045&pn=Roberto_Carlos_da_Silva
  6. ^ Source: "Roberto Carlos, Real Madrid's indefatigable full-back", FIFA.
  7. ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/chelsea/5033138.stm
  8. ^ Carlos’ Signing Ceremony
  9. ^ Soccer: Roberto Carlos joins Fenerbahçe - International Herald Tribune
  10. ^ "Fenerbahçe's Carlos Set to Miss Rest of the Season"
  11. ^ "Carlos'la Bir Yıl Daha"
  12. ^ Brazil - Record International Players
  13. ^ http:///www.goldenfoot.com/T_peditions.cfm?anno=2008
  14. ^ http://www1.uefa.com/fanzone/teamoftheyear/history/newsid=52201.html
  15. ^ http://www1.uefa.com/fanzone/teamoftheyear/history/newsid=136922.html
Preceded by UEFA Champions League Best Defender
2001-02, 2002-03 		Succeeded by


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