Dida (footballer, born 1973)

Dida

Dida in 2012
Personal information
Full name Nélson de Jesus Silva
Date of birth (1973-10-07) 7 October 1973
Place of birth Irará, Bahia, Brazil
Height 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)[1]
Playing position Goalkeeper
Youth career
1990 Cruzeiro de Arapiraca
1991–1992 Vitória
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
1992–1993 Vitória 24 (0)
1994–1998 Cruzeiro 120 (0)
1998–1999 Lugano 0 (0)
1999–2000 Corinthians 24 (0)
2000–2010 A.C. Milan 206 (0)
2001–2002 → Corinthians (loan) 8 (0)
2012 Portuguesa 32 (0)
2013 Grêmio 37 (0)
2014–2015 Internacional 27 (0)
Total 478 (0)
National team
1992–1993 Brazil U20 12 (0)
1996 Brazil Olympic 17 (0)
1995–2006 Brazil 91 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 03:21, 7 September 2015 (UTC).

† Appearances (goals)

Nélson de Jesus Silva[nb 1] (born 7 October 1973), better known simply as Dida (Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈdʒidɐ]), is a Brazilian football goalkeeper. He first rose to prominence in Brazilian club football in the 1990s with EC Vitória, Cruzeiro EC and SC Corinthians, gaining a reputation as a penalty kick-saving specialist. He is perhaps best remembered for his successful and often tumultuous ten-year stint with Italian Serie A club A.C. Milan from 2000 to 2010, during which he became equally known for errors as his excellent gameplay,[4][6][9][10] in addition to gaining worldwide media attention after being hit by a lit flare in a 2005 match against crosstown rival F.C. Internazionale.[11][12] He is a two-time winner of the UEFA Champions League with Milan, with the first of those victories coming after he saved three penalties in a shootout against Juventus.[13][14] One of four Rossoneri goalies with over 300 total career appearances,[15] Dida was inducted into Milan's Hall of Fame in 2014, and has remained active with the club for various off-pitch events and exhibition matches following his 2010 departure. After a two-year absence from playing, he returned to Brazil in 2012, suiting up for three teams—Portuguesa, Grêmio, and Internacional—in as many seasons. He is currently a free agent after his contract with the latter was not renewed.[16]

On the international level, Dida earned 91 caps in eleven years with the Brazilian national team, winning the FIFA World Cup and an Olympic medal, while he is the most successful player in the history of the FIFA Confederations Cup, having participated in 22 matches over five consecutive tournaments while winning the competition twice.[17] He notably broke a color barrier during the 1999 Copa América by becoming the Seleção's first Afro-Brazilian starting goalkeeper since Moacyr Barbosa half a century earlier,[18] and was only the second black keeper to start for Brazil in a FIFA World Cup final upon taking the field for their opening match against Croatia on 13 June 2006.[19] He retired from international play after Brazil were eliminated by France in the quarterfinals.

Often cited as an influence among current goalkeepers in regards to his playing style and personality,[lower-alpha 1] Dida is the first Brazilian keeper to have been nominated for the FIFA Ballon d'Or, is the first two-time winner of the FIFA Club World Cup, the inaugural winner of the FIFPro Goalkeeper of the Year award, and is a seven-time nominee of the IFFHS World's Best Goalkeeper award, twice with Corinthians and five times with Milan. He has been credited with ending the prejudice against black goalkeepers in Brazilian club football due to his success in Europe,[26][27][nb 2] and upon joining Internacional in 2014, became the first Afro-Brazilian keeper to play for the club in 43 years.[28]

Early years

Dida was born in Irará in the northeastern state of Bahia, and is one of eight children, along with five sisters and two brothers.[3] He grew up in Lagoa da Canoa in the smaller neighboring state of Alagoas, to where his family had moved when he was three months old.[29] He was a supporter of Rio de Janeiro-based club Flamengo as a youngster,[30] and took his future nickname from revered striker Dida, who had starred for Flamengo from 1954 to 1964.[31]

His first exposure to football came in futsal and pickup games,[32] and at age thirteen, he helped form an amateur squad called Flamenguinho ("Little Flamengo"), which marked his first experience in organized team play.[32] His footballing heroes were goalkeepers Rinat Dasayev[32] and future Seleção teammate Cláudio Taffarel, who had played four seasons in Italy and whom Dida considered a pioneer in Brazilian keepers becoming more prevalent in European clubs.[33]

Club career

Vitória and Cruzeiro

In 1990, Dida joined now-defunct Alagoan club Cruzeiro de Arapiraca,[34] and two years later joined the youth academy of hometown team and 1992 Campeonato Baiano winners Esporte Clube Vitória.[35][36] After starting in Brazil's victorious 1993 FIFA World Youth Championship campaign, Dida made 24 starts in goal for the senior squad as Vitória finished runner-up to Palmeiras in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, and he became the youngest recipient, at age twenty, of Brazilian football magazine Placar's annual Bola de Prata award as the Série A's best goalkeeper.[36]

Dida was then acquired by Minas Gerais unit Cruzeiro Esporte Clube in 1994. In a span of five seasons, he won four state titles, the 1996 Copa do Brasil, and the 1997 Copa Libertadores, while Placar twice more named him the top league keeper. However, in January 1999, he publicly stated his desire to test his skills in Europe and catch the attention of the Seleção coaching staff in the process, and therefore took the club to court in order to cancel the remainder of his contract so he could sign with A.C. Milan, the only European team that had extended him any type of offer.[37] The ensuing legal battle between the player and Cruzeiro lasted for five months,[37] during which a FIFA ruling allowed Dida to be loaned to Switzerland club FC Lugano so he could keep in shape in the meantime, though he never played a game.[38] His move to Milan became official in May 1999 following a transfer fee paid to Cruzeiro, which brought the dispute to a close.[37]

Corinthians

Dida was the third keeper on Milan coach Alberto Zaccheroni's depth chart behind Christian Abbiati and aging veteran Sebastiano Rossi for the 1999-00 season, and he thus returned to Brazil as he was loaned to São Paulo club S.C. Corinthians Paulista to get regular playing time. It was during this stint that his reputation as a penalty stopper came into national renown.[39][40][41] He saved two separate spot kicks—both taken by Raí—in Corinthians' 3–2 victory over intrastate rival São Paulo FC in the semifinal of the 1999 Campeonato Brasileiro,[42] a feat that earned him the nicknames São Dida ("Saint Dida")[37] and O rei dos pênaltis ("King of Penalties") from the Brazilian media.[37][43] He received his first nomination for the IFFHS World's Best Goalkeeper award, finishing eighth in the voting.[44]

In 2000, Dida kept three clean sheets while allowing only two goals in four matches as Corinthians lifted the inaugural FIFA Club World Cup. He saved a Nicolas Anelka penalty in a 2–2 group stage draw with Real Madrid,[45][46] and in the final against Vasco da Gama that ended goalless after extra time, he blocked a Gilberto penalty in the ensuing shootout that Corinthians won 4-3 after Vasco striker Edmundo's shot went wide.[39] Corinthians midfielder Ricardinho revealed to the media afterward that the team was actively seeking to take the match to penalties during the extra period, knowing Dida would save "at least one in five";[47] indeed, BBC News castigated the "poor final" as both teams "never look[ing] like scoring in two hours of open play",[48] while Dida himself expressed his displeasure of penalty shootouts in that they "cause[d] suffering to the players and the fans."[47]

Milan

1999-2002: Beginnings with Milan and return to Corinthians

With first-choice Abbiati on international duty with Italy at the 2000 Summer Olympics, Milan recalled Dida and named him their 2000-01 Champions League starter, with Rossi minding the net for league play. His Rossoneri debut came in a 4–1 group-stage victory over Beşiktaş J.K. on 13 September 2000, but six days later, against Leeds United at a rain-soaked Elland Road, he accidentally dropped a late Lee Bowyer strike into his own goal, causing Milan to lose the match 1–0.[49][50] His explanation was that he attempted to absorb the force of the shot and then catch hold of it, but the ball dropped into a puddle and bounced into the net.[2] Dida was nonetheless kept in the starting lineup for the remainder of the group stage, which included keeping his first clean sheet for Milan in a 2-0 win over FC Barcelona on 26 September.[51] He then lost his spot back to Abbiati for the second group stage while he made his first and only Serie A start in a 2–0 November loss to Parma AC. Unable to later beat out Rossi for the starting spot following an injury to Abbiati, Dida did not play again that season save for one last appearance in Milan's 2-0 loss to Galatasaray S.K.[52]—who featured his idol Taffarel in goal[53]—on 7 March 2001, as the Rossoneri were eliminated.

2003-2004: Champions League and Scudetto success

"For me, he will always be the first companion I embraced after scoring the penalty against Buffon in that [2003] Champions League final."

—Andriy Shevchenko[5]

Dida was recalled again by Milan for the 2002-03 season as a reserve, until he came on as an injury substitute for Abbiati in the second half of Milan's Champions League third-round qualifying match against FC Slovan Liberec on 14 August 2002, in which he turned in a solid performance in a 1-0 victory that resulted in second-year coach Carlo Ancelotti promoting him to first choice.[49] He made a then-career best thirty starts as Milan finished third in Serie A and exhibited the league's second-best defense that conceded only thirty goals (one behind champion Juventus' 29), while he won his lone Coppa Italia with the Rossoneri in 2003.[54] Dida additionally made fourteen Champions League starts, missing only the second leg of Milan's semifinal elimination of crosstown rival F.C. Internazionale with a finger injury,[55] as Milan progressed to face Juventus in the only all-Italian final in competition history, in which Dida was relatively untested during the goalless regulation and extra-time periods save for a stop of a late Alessandro del Piero shot.[56] He saved from David Trezeguet, Marcelo Zalayeta, and Paolo Montero[57] in the penalty shootout that saw five of the first seven shots collectively stopped by Dida and Juventus' star goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon.[58] After Milan's Andriy Shevchenko slotted the winner, he celebrated by leaping into Dida's arms as they were mobbed by teammates.[59] Juventus coach Marcelo Lippi said after the match that "four or five" of his players had refused to take part in the shootout,[60] while Bianconeri defender Lilian Thuram, who was not a participant, admitted to being affected beforehand by Dida's reputation as a penalty stopper.[56] Dida capped off the year by becoming the first Brazilian goalkeeper nominated for the FIFA Ballon d'Or,[33] finishing thirteenth in the voting.[61]

In Milan's 2003–04 Scudetto-winning season, Dida became the first non-Italian Serie A Goalkeeper of the Year after conceding only twenty goals in 32 appearances,[62] and kept a clean sheet in the title-clinching 1-0 victory over AS Roma on 2 May 2004, during which he and teammate Gennaro Gattuso were struck on separate occasions by projectiles thrown by Roma supporters.[63][64] Though Milan were eliminated by Deportivo La Coruña in the 2003–04 Champions League quarterfinals, a highlight of their campaign was during a previous group-stage match against AFC Ajax on 16 September 2003, when Dida blocked a point blank-range shot from Rafael van der Vaart at the end of extra time to preserve Milan's 1–0 win.[65][66][67]

2004-2005: Internazionale flare incident and Miracle in Istanbul

Milan started 2004-05 by winning the Supercoppa Italiana, but Dida received the first and only sending-off of his Milan career just seven minutes into the Rossoneri's home-opening draw with A.S. Livorno on 11 September 2004, following a professional foul on Luca Vigiani.[68] The first half of the season saw Dida nearly insurmountable in net as Milan allowed only ten goals while going unbeaten in seventeen of their next eighteen league matches, among them a 1-0 win over A.C. Chievo Verona on 28 November 2004 that saw Dida perform an acrobatic save on a Roberto Baronio free kick, during which he had to change direction after the ball was deflected midflight.[69][70][71] Ancelotti described the save to reporters as "[worth] no less than a goal."[2] Though Dida kept sixteen total clean sheets and conceded only twenty-five goals in 36 (out of 38) appearances, Milan faltered late in the season by going winless in five of their final eight league matches as they finished runner-up to Scudetto winners Juventus.[72]

In the Champions League, Dida allowed only three goals in Milan's first ten matches, including a string of five straight clean sheets following a 2-1 group-stage loss to Barcelona on 2 November 2004.[73] The fifth of these came against crosstown rival Internazionale in the quarterfinals on 7 April 2005, in which Dida kept the Nerazzurri at bay with multiple saves, notably that of a top-corner Siniša Mihajlović free kick.[74][75] With Milan leading 1–0 in the return leg on 12 April, a second-half header by Inter midfielder Esteban Cambiasso goal was disallowed by referee Markus Merk due to a foul on Dida by forward Julio Cruz.[11] Inter ultras located in the curva behind Dida's goal reacted to the call by hurling bottles and burning flares onto the pitch.[11] As Dida attempted to resume gameplay by clearing out the debris from his penalty area to take a goal kick, a flare struck him on his right shoulder, missing his head by inches.[11] The match was halted as firefighters worked to clear the pitch while Dida received treatment for bruising and first-degree burns to his shoulder.[11] After a half-hour delay the game resumed with Abbiati in goal, and was abandoned less than a minute later after more projectiles rained down.[76] Dida tied a Champions League record, then shared with Edwin van der Sar and Józef Wandzik, with his sixth straight shutout[77] as Milan were officially awarded a 3-0 win. Inter were later fined €200,000 (₤132,000) by UEFA and ordered to play their next four European matches behind closed doors.[78] In the semifinals against PSV Eindhoven, Dida set a then-competition record with his seventh consecutive clean sheet in Milan's 2-0 first-leg victory on 26 April,[79] but his scoreless streak ended at 623 total minutes following a Park Ji-sung strike in the ninth minute of the second leg on 4 May[80] as PSV won 3-1, but the Rossoneri advanced to the final on away goals.[81] In the 2005 final in Istanbul, against Premier League side Liverpool F.C., Milan charged to an early 3-0 lead in the first half but Liverpool rallied in the second with three goals in a span of six minutes, the second being a strike from Reds midfielder Vladimír Šmicer that Dida got a hand to but was unable to keep out.[82] The third came on a Xabi Alonso penalty saved by Dida before Alonso promptly netted the rebound.[83] With the match going to penalties after ending 3-3 in regulation and extra time, Dida stopped only from John Arne Riise as Liverpool won the shootout 3-2, and he later faced press criticism for what was deemed a poor reaction to Šmicer's shot on goal.[83][84][85] Dida was among five Milan players named to the inaugural FIFPro World XI at the end of the season,[86] while he finished a career-best second for the 2005 IFFHS World's Best Goalkeeper award, behind winner Petr Čech and ahead of Buffon.[87] He was additionally shortlisted for the 2005 Ballon D'Or but did not receive any votes.[88]

2005-06: Decline in form

In 2005-06, Milan finished three points behind Juventus in Serie A before later being implicated in the Calciopoli match-fixing scandal, and went trophyless domestically and in Europe for the first time since 2001-02. The Rossoneri began the first half of the campaign losing as many matches (five) as they had the entire previous season while conceding 22 goals in that nineteen-game span, with Dida not keeping a clean sheet until the fourth matchday in a 2-0 win over S.S. Lazio.[89] It was also during this season that his form began to visibly decline, as he began committing noticeable errors such as dropping a cross in Milan's 4-3 win over Parma on 8 January 2006 that allowed Paolo Cannavaro to score the loose ball and give Parma a 1-0 lead,[90] and attempting an underhand catch of an Andrea Gasbarroni shot that instead bounced off his arm and into goal, resulting in a 1-1 draw with U.C. Sampdoria on 28 January that put Milan nine points behind Juventus in the title race.[91] In February, Brazil national team coach Carlos Alberto Parreira, who had previously coached Dida at Corinthians, publicly declared that he risked jeopardizing his starting position for the upcoming 2006 World Cup if his form did not improve.[92] Dida additionally faced scrutiny in Champions League performances against FC Schalke 04[93] and Olympique Lyonnais,[94] and was stretchered off with a sprained ankle in Milan's 1-1 knockout-stage draw with Bayern Munich on 22 February,[95] but returned for the second leg on 8 March, which Milan won 4-1.[96] Milan's bid to return to the 2006 Champions League final fell short with a 1–0 semifinal aggregate loss to Barcelona, but Dida was praised for saves against Samuel Eto'o, Ronaldinho, and Henrik Larsson over both legs.[97][98] However, his clean-sheet record from the previous season was surpassed by Arsenal's Jens Lehmann, who finished with ten straight.[99]

2006-2007: Return to Champions League victory

Dida in Milan's goalless home draw against ACF Fiorentina on 6 May 2007

As punishment for their involvement in the Calciopoli scandal, Milan began the 2006–07 Serie A season with an eight-point deficit, and finished fourth in the standings behind Internazionale, Roma and Lazio. After a strike by Lazio's Stephen Makinwa in Milan's 2–1 season opener on 10 September 2006, Dida did not concede a goal for the next 446 minutes,[100] while keeping four clean sheets and conceding only two goals in Milan's first six Champions League group stage matches. He made his 200th appearance for Milan in all competitions in a 1–0 defeat of Ascoli on 20 September. On 10 March 2007, Dida signed a three-year contract extension that committed him to Milan till 2010.[101] However, the season was the first injury-plagued of his career, causing him to miss eleven Serie A matches due to knee and shoulder problems (he had missed ten league games in the previous three seasons combined), and his form was consequently erratic. He was heavily criticized after conceding twice from Bayern Munich's Daniel van Buyten in the Champions League quarterfinal first leg that ended in a 2–2 draw. Dida then turned in a strong performance in the second leg as Milan shut out Bayern 2–0 and advanced to the semifinals against Manchester United, where he again received criticism after blunders on Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney goals in Milan's 3–2 loss but then rebounded in the second leg, keeping another clean sheet in Milan's decisive 3–0 second-leg victory. In the CL final rematch against Liverpool on 23 May, he exorcised his Istanbul ghosts with three saves from Jermaine Pennant, Steven Gerrard, and Peter Crouch in Milan's 2–1 victory, and he raised his second Champions League trophy in five seasons.[102]

2007-08: Injury problems, Celtic incident and benching

Ongoing injury problems and sustained poor form limited Dida to just thirteen league matches in 2007–08, in which Milan finished fifth and would miss out on Champions League qualification for the following season. On 3 October 2007, during Milan's CL group stage match against Celtic F.C. in Glasgow, Celtic striker Scott McDonald scored the match-winner in the 90th minute to seal a 2–1 victory. As McDonald and his teammates celebrated near the corner flag, 27-year-old Celtic fan Robert McHendry entered the pitch and tapped Dida on the shoulder as he ran past the Milan penalty area. Dida initially gave chase but after a few steps he suddenly collapsed to the ground, holding the side of his face; he was stretchered off the pitch and substituted.[103] Although McHendry later turned himself in to police and was given a lifetime ban from Celtic Park, Dida was charged by UEFA with breaching rules upholding "loyalty, integrity and sportsmanship," as it was deemed that he had feigned injury. He was consequently punished with a two-match suspension,[7] which Milan promptly appealed.[104] Dida never publicly commented on the incident, but prior to Milan's first home game after the Celtic match, against Empoli FC on 21 October, he offered a gesture of apology to the fans by pausing to bow to each section of the crowd during warmups, and received a round of applause in response;[105] TGCOM described the gesture as "more eloquent than a thousand speeches."[8] The next day, UEFA reduced his ban to one match, and he sat out Milan's 4–1 victory over FC Shakhtar Donetsk on 24 October.[106]

On 19 November, Dida joined teammates Cafu, Kaká, Ronaldo and Paolo Maldini for the yearly Match Against Poverty in Málaga, Spain, but he missed Milan's group stage rematch against Celtic on 4 December due to illness.[107] That same month, he became the first two-time winner of the FIFA Club World Cup after Milan defeated Boca Juniors 4-2 in the final.[108] He had further set a competition record with six appearances, a mark that lasted until the next year when Al-Ahly players Wael Gomaa and Mohamed Aboutrika both earned their seventh caps in a 1–0 loss to Adelaide United on 18 December 2008.[109]

The death knell of his campaign came in Milan's first derby of the year against Internazionale on 23 December, in which he inexplicably dived in the opposite direction of Esteban Cambiasso's goal that gave the Nerazzurri a 2–1 victory. The error earned him a hailstorm of criticism from the fans and media, and Cambiasso commented to reporters after the match, "'I am not going to make jokes about Dida. We are professionals. It happened that he made a mistake. These things are part of football."[110] His last game was in a 5–2 victory over S.S.C. Napoli on 13 January 2008, after which he aggravated a knee injury during a training session and was dropped for the next match by Ancelotti in favor of Zeljko Kalac, whose own solid form (which included a gamewinning save in a 1–0 win over Fiorentina on 2 February)[111] kept Dida benched for the remainder of the season. His appearance in the Goal4Africa charity match on 12 July would mark his first on-pitch action of any kind in a six-month span.[112]

2008-2010: Revival and closure

With the return of Abbiati as Milan's first choice for the 2008-09 season, Dida was the starter for Milan's UEFA Cup campaign, which ended with their elimination by Werder Bremen on 27 February 2009. He made his season debut on 15 March against Siena after Abbiati was carted off with a serious knee injury in the 13th minute.[113] With Abbiati out for the rest of the year, Ancelotti kept Dida in the starting lineup over Kalac, whose poor outing in a 5–0 Russian Railways Cup thrashing by Chelsea had demoted him to third choice. He made a career-low total of ten league appearances, though six of them ended in clean sheets.

Dida was unable to compete for the 2009–10 starting spot after missing the entire preseason due to injury, and therefore was benched in favor of Marco Storari, who was serving a second stint with Milan following a loan spell with Fiorentina. However, he would again make his seasonal league debut as an injury substitute, this time on 18 October 2009 in a 2–1 home win over Roma, after Storari was a late scratch due to injury.[114] On 21 October, after catching an Esteban Granero shot during his first Champions League appearance of the season against Real Madrid, Dida hurried to move the ball upfield without having complete control of it, causing him to accidentally bounce it off his knee, and Raúl immediately pounced on the loose ball and put it into an empty net. His mistake ultimately did not prove costly as Madrid keeper Iker Casillas erred himself on two goals that allowed Milan to take the lead and win 3–2.[115] However, on the back of strong league performances thereafter, such as a point-blank stoppage-time save from a Pablo Granoche header in a 2–1 victory over Chievo Verona on 25 October,[116] and a man-of-the-match effort three days later in a 2–2 draw at Napoli that included double and triple saves minutes apart from each other,[117] Dida remained in the starting lineup despite Storari's full recovery and his own excellent form prior to his injury, and Storari was consequently loaned to U.C. Sampdoria on 15 January.[118] However, after Abbiati was cleared to resume playing, he and Dida were juggled in and out of the starting lineup by new coach Leonardo due to his inability to establish a definite number one as both keepers alternated high runs of form. On 31 January, Dida missed Milan's 1–1 draw with Livorno after suffering a back strain during pregame warmups, and despite his recovery had been demoted to backup following Abbiati's heroics in a 2–0 win over AS Bari on 21 February, though Leonardo denied reports that Dida had been outright dropped as a starter: "Nelson has had a great season, and now he's available and a resource. Abbiati's selection is not a given, because I've learned this year that nothing is a given."[119] Milan vice president Adriano Galliani insisted that a duel between the keepers did not exist, and that it was Leonardo's choice whom to play.[120] Dida was substituted by Abbiati in the 88th minute of his final match with Milan, a 3-0 home win over Juventus, and received a standing ovation from the fans. His contract officially expired on 30 June 2010, making him a free agent.[121]

After Milan

Dida in Indonesia for a September 2011 Milan Glorie exhibition match

On 5 September 2011, Dida suited up for Milan Glorie (a selection of AC Milan legends) for a charity exhibition against a team of Indonesian all stars.[122] He was deployed as a striker for the second half after Massimo Taibi replaced him in goal, and scored a header in Milan's 5-1 victory.[123] In May 2012, he joined Milan's beach soccer team for a tournament to be played at the same month.[124] Dida stated in December 2011 his desire to play for at least two more years, and that some unspecified clubs had expressed interest in offering him a contract. He added that he had hoped to continue playing in Europe, particularly with an English club, but was unable to do so due to his non-EU status.[125] However, after two years and no offers, he relocated back to Brazil in 2012 to resume his club career.

2012-2015

Portuguesa

On 24 May 2012, Dida ended his two-year hiatus by signing a contract with Portuguesa that kept him at the Brazilian club until the end of the season.[126]

Grêmio

On 19 December 2012, Dida joined Grêmio on an undisclosed fee and contract duration.[127][128] Dida played 37 matches for Gremio in 2013 season but left the club after the season.

Internacional

For the following season, 2014, Dida was transferred to Grêmio rival Internacional. Presented on 26 December 2013, he thanked the trust from Colorado side, because his intention was staying in Porto Alegre, and said he does not fear about the rivalry with his former club. According to Dida, "The feel is good. It is the first time I ever did this. I do not regret about this. It is a good challenge. I just see it through the positive side."[129]

International career

With 91 appearances in 11 years,[130] Dida is Brazil's third-highest capped goalie, behind Cláudio Taffarel (101), and Gilmar (94). The only first-choice Brazilian keeper to be known by a nickname, he made his Canarinho debut at the 1993 Under-21 FIFA World Youth Championship, where Brazil won the championship for a third time. His first cap for the Seleção came in a 1–0 defeat of Ecuador on 7 July 1995.

Dida was the starting keeper for Brazil at the 1996 Summer Olympics, but an error-laden campaign that included a penalty-area collision involving Dida and teammate Aldair resulted in defeats to Nigeria and Japan and left Brazil with the bronze medal.[38] He did his part in Brazil's 1999 Copa América victory by conceding only twice in six matches, in addition to saving a Roberto Ayala penalty that preserved a 2–1 win over arch rivals Argentina in the quarterfinals.[131]

Dida played four out of five matches in the 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup (Marcos made one appearance due to squad rotation), conceding four goals and ranking second in total saves behind Mexico's Oswaldo Sánchez. One memorable moment of the competition was during Brazil's 1–0 group-stage loss to Mexico, when he saved a Jared Borgetti spot kick that had to be retaken twice due to repeated player encroachment into the penalty area, which additionally marked the only penalty save of the competition.[132]

Dida earned 91 caps in eleven years with the Brazilian national team.

Overall, Dida is the most successful player in the history of the Confederations Cup. In addition to being a two-time winner in 1997 and 2005, he is the competition's all-time leader in caps (22)[133] as well as the only player to participate in five consecutive tournaments (1997 to 2005).[134]

For the 1998 World Cup, coach Mário Zagallo lured 1994 World Cup hero Taffarel out of international retirement and back into the No.1 jersey, while Dida was called up as the third-choice keeper behind Taffarel and Carlos Germano. Despite his run of good form with Corinthians at the time of the 2002 World Cup, Luiz Felipe Scolari, who had replaced Wanderley Luxemburgo as coach following Brazil's lackluster qualification, named Marcos his number one. Dida and third-choice keeper Rogério Ceni never played a minute in Brazil's winning campaign.

Despite never playing a match during his brief tenure at Lugano, Dida received a warm reception from the local supporters during Brazil's training sessions in Weggis, Switzerland prior to the start of the 2006 World Cup.[135] Following fourteen straight matches on the bench in the past two World Cups, he was chosen as the starting keeper by coach Carlos Alberto Parreira for the finals, which in turn made him the first black keeper to start for Brazil in a World Cup final since Moacyr Barbosa in 1950, for which he was hailed by Brazilian sports daily Globo Esporte as "Dida, o homem que quebrou o tabu" ("Dida, who broke the taboo").[136] He conceded only two goals in five matches as Brazil defeated Croatia, Australia, Japan, and Ghana before being eliminated by France in the quarterfinals, a match which saw Brazil manage only one shot on goal in the entire contest. Due to his consistent play in goal, Dida was one of few players to avoid the wrath of the Brazilian media and fans after the team's elimination. In addition to his historical World Cup start, he became the first Seleção goalie to wear the captain's armband since Émerson Leão in the 1978 World Cup, when incumbent skipper Cafu was rested for Brazil's 4–1 win over Japan on 22 June,[137] a match in which Dida was substituted by Ceni late in the second half as part of Parreira's plan to play mainly reserves.

Brazil's defeat by France ultimately became Dida's swan song. On 1 October 2006, new Brazil coach Dunga announced during a television interview, "Dida told me that the Seleção is no longer a priority in his career."[138] Despite his World Cup heroics, he was not called up for national team play after the July 2006 inception of Dunga, who had eschewed many of the veterans in favor of a predominantly younger squad for Brazil's post-World Cup matches. He faced a total of eight penalties in his international career, saving six of them.[139]

Controversy

During the 2000-01 season, Dida was among multiple Serie A players, including Juan Sebastián Verón, Álvaro Recoba, and then-future Milan teammate Cafu, who were implicated in a league scandal involving fraudulent European passports.[140] Dida had joined Milan with a Portuguese passport in order to gain EU status, as Milan had already met their limit on non-EU players at the time with Shevchenko, Serginho, and Croatian midfielder Zvonimir Boban.[141] However, following a routine check that revealed the document was illegal, Milan promptly re-registered him as a non-EU player.[142] In June 2001, FIGC fined the club £314,000 and banned Dida from the league for one year,[143] while FIFA imposed a yearlong ban from international play.[144] Milan loaned him back to Corinthians for the 2001-02 season in accordance with the league suspension. On 3 April 2003, following a court appearance in Milan, Dida was handed a seven-month suspended prison sentence.[145]

Career statistics

Club

As of 14 November 2014
Club Season League Cup Continental Other Total
Apps Gls Apps Gls Apps Gls Apps Gls Apps Gls
Vitória 1992 ----------
1993 240------240
Cruzeiro 1993 230--67--290
1995 2003080--310
1996 22090??--310
1997 2502020010480
1998 30050140--490
Lugano 1998–99 ----------
Corinthians 1999 250------250
2000 ----11040150
Milan 2000–01 10--60--70
Corinthians 2001 80------80
2002 --90--180270
Milan 2002–03 300--140--440
2003–04 3202010010450
2004–05 360--13010500
2005–06 360--120--480
2006–07 25030130--410
2007–08 130--5020200
2008–09 1001080--190
2009–10 230--50--280
Portuguesa 2012 320------320
Grêmio 2013 4606080--600
Internacional 2014 3405020--410
Total for Milan 206 0 6 0 86 0 4 0 302 0
Career totals 495 0 45 0 153 0 29 0 722 0
  1. ↑ See[20][21][22][23][24][25]

International

[146]

Brazil national team
Year Apps GA
1995 30
1996 67
1997 62
1998 --
1999 1717
2000 107
2001 63
2002 52
2003 118
2004 96
2005 1213
2006 62
Total 9167

Honours

Club

Vitória
Cruzeiro
Corinthians
Milan[147]
Internacional

Country

Brazil

Individual

Notes

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    2. ↑ Contains English translation of previous source.

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