Roberto Dinamite | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Dinamite playing forVasco da Gama in 1980s | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| President of Vasco da Gama | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 2008–2014 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Eurico Miranda | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Eurico Miranda | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | Carlos Roberto de Oliveira (1954-04-13)13 April 1954 Duque de Caxias, Brazil | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 8 January 2023(2023-01-08) (aged 68) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Footballer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Carlos Roberto de Oliveira (13 April 1954 – 8 January 2023), known asRoberto Dinamite, was a Brazilianfootballer and politician. He was born inDuque de Caxias,Rio de Janeiro state. With a career asforward spanning over twenty years, Roberto isVasco da Gama player with the most appearances and all-time top goalscorer, as well as the overall leading scorer in theCampeonato Brasileiro Série A and theCampeonato Carioca.[1][2][3][4] At thenational level, Roberto Dinamite played in the1978 and1982 FIFA World Cups and the1972 Olympic Games. He was president of Vasco da Gama from 2008 to 2014.
Roberto Dinamite was developed atVasco da Gama youth squad. He is one of the most famous Vasco da Gama players, and is the club's greatest goal scorer. He scored 698 goals wearing the club's shirt and 864 goals in all his career. He played 1022 matches (768 official matches, and 254 friendly matches).
Roberto was nicknamed Dinamite by the journalist Aparício Pires, ofJornal dos Sports newspaper, after scoring a spectacular goal in his debut for the professional team, on 25 November 1971, againstInternacional, atMaracanã stadium.[5] The journalist wrote in the newspaper that theDynamite-Boy detonates at Maracanã.[5]
He helped Vasco da Gama win the1974 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A and the1977 Campeonato Carioca before moving toBarcelona in 1979.[4] After only scoring 3 goals at Barcelona, he returned back to Vasco da Gama and won four more Campeonato Carioca (1982,1987,1988,1992)[4]
In 1989–90, he played forPortuguesa ofSão Paulo state, scoring 11 goals.[5]
His last goal was scored on 26 October 1992, when, in Campeonato Carioca, Vasco da Gama beatGoytacaz 2–0 atSão Januário Stadium.[6]
Dinamite retired on 24 March 1993, when he was 39 years old. His last match was on that day, whenDeportivo de La Coruña of Spain beat Vasco da Gama 2–0 at Maracanã stadium, in a friendly game in whichZico also played (for Vasco).[6]
Roberto Dinamite earned 47caps with theBrazil national team, between September 1975 and June 1984, scoring 25 goals, including matches against combined teams, and clubs.[7] He played 38 matches against national teams (20 of them were official FIFA matches), and scored 20 goals, and the nine other matches were against combined teams, and clubs, scoring five goals in those matches. His first national team match was played on 30 September 1975, when thePeru national team beat Brazil 3–1.[7] Roberto Dinamite's first Brazil national team goal was scored on 23 May 1976, when Brazil beatEngland 1–0.[7] His last cap was earned on 17 June 1984, when Brazil andArgentina drew 0–0.[7]
Dinamite was a reserve player in the1978 FIFA World Cup, scoring three goals.[5] He was also reserve player forSerginho in the1982 FIFA World Cup, and was called byTelê Santana afterCareca got injured.[5]
Roberto Dinamite played fiveBrazil Olympic team matches, all of them in 1972.[8] He scored one goal in his last match, played on 11 August 1972, when Brazil andTuna Luso drew 1–1.[8]
After his retirement from football, he became a politician. In 1992, after joining thePSDB party, he ran for theMunicipal Chamber of Rio de Janeiro, being electedvereador (alderman) with 34,893 votes.[5]
As a member ofPMDB, Roberto Dinamite was elected Rio de Janeiro state deputy in 1994, with 68,516 votes, in 1998, with 44,993 votes,[5] in 2002, with 53,172 votes[9] and in 2006, with 49,097 votes.[10]
Roberto Dinamite was a candidate to Vasco da Gama presidency in 2003 and in 2006. He was elected president of Vasco da Gama on 21 June 2008.[3]
Roberto Dinamite died ofintestinal cancer in Rio de Janeiro on 8 January 2023, at the age of 68, after fighting against the disease since 2021.[11]
| Club | Season | League | State League | Cup[a] | Continental | Total | ||||||
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| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Vasco da Gama | 1971 | Série A | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 6 | 1 | ||
| 1972 | 11 | 4 | 11 | 2 | — | — | 22 | 6 | ||||
| 1973 | 32 | 13 | 19 | 5 | — | — | 51 | 18 | ||||
| 1974 | 26 | 16 | 20 | 17 | — | — | 46 | 33 | ||||
| 1975 | 19 | 15 | 28 | 25 | — | 6 | 2 | 53 | 42 | |||
| 1976 | 19 | 12 | 26 | 15 | — | — | 45 | 27 | ||||
| 1977 | 17 | 7 | 27 | 25 | — | — | 44 | 32 | ||||
| 1978 | 17 | 14 | 21 | 19 | — | — | 38 | 33 | ||||
| 1979 | 14 | 10 | 35 | 33 | — | — | 49 | 43 | ||||
| Total | 161 | 92 | 187 | 141 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 354 | 235 | ||
| Barcelona | 1979–80 | La Liga | 8 | 2 | — | 1 | 0 | 2[b] | 1 | 11 | 3 | |
| Vasco da Gama | 1980 | Série A | 6 | 8 | 24 | 14 | — | — | 30 | 22 | ||
| 1981 | 19 | 14 | 27 | 31 | — | — | 46 | 45 | ||||
| 1982 | 16 | 12 | 20 | 15 | — | — | 36 | 27 | ||||
| 1983 | 21 | 9 | 14 | 7 | — | — | 35 | 16 | ||||
| 1984 | 21 | 16 | 17 | 9 | — | — | 38 | 25 | ||||
| 1985 | 22 | 16 | 20 | 12 | — | — | 42 | 28 | ||||
| 1986 | 15 | 5 | 24 | 19 | — | — | 39 | 24 | ||||
| 1987 | 14 | 6 | 29 | 14 | — | — | 43 | 20 | ||||
| 1988 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 1 | — | — | 13 | 4 | ||||
| 1989 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 9 | — | — | 16 | 9 | ||||
| 1990 | 4 | 0 | 15 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 29 | 4 | ||
| 1992 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 9 | 3 | 1 | — | 24 | 10 | |||
| Total | 150 | 89 | 228 | 143 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 391 | 234 | ||
| Portuguesa (loan) | 1989 | Série A | 17 | 9 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 17 | 9 | ||
| Campo Grande (loan) | 1991 | Série B | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 | — | — | 14 | 0 | ||
| Career total | 336 | 192 | 429 | 284 | 6 | 1 | 16 | 4 | 787 | 481 | ||
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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| Brazil | 1975 | 2 | 0 |
| 1976 | 6 | 6 | |
| 1977 | 10 | 6 | |
| 1978 | 6 | 3 | |
| 1979 | 2 | 1 | |
| 1981 | 1 | 1 | |
| 1982 | 2 | 0 | |
| 1983 | 7 | 3 | |
| 1984 | 2 | 0 | |
| Total | 38 | 20 | |
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition | Ref. |
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| 1 | 23 May 1976 | Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum,Los Angeles, United States |  England | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1976 U.S.A. Bicentennial Cup Tournament | [13] |
| 2 | 31 May 1976 | Yale Bowl,New Haven, United States |  Italy | 4–1 | 4–1 | 1976 U.S.A. Bicentennial Cup Tournament | [14] |
| 3 | 4 June 1976 | Estadio Jalisco,Guadalajara, Mexico |  Mexico | 1–0 | 3–0 | Friendly | [15] |
| 4 | 3–0 | ||||||
| 5 | 9 June 1976 | Maracanã Stadium,Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |  Paraguay | – | 3–1 | Friendly | [16] |
| 6 | – | ||||||
| 7 | 23 January 1977 | Estádio do Morumbi,São Paulo, Brazil |  Bulgaria | 1–0 | 1–0 | Friendly | [17] |
| 8 | 9 March 1977 | Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |  Colombia | 1–0 | 6–0 | 1978 FIFA World Cup qualification | [18] |
| 9 | 3–0 | ||||||
| 10 | 20 March 1977 | Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Paraguay | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1978 FIFA World Cup qualification | [19] |
| 11 | 30 June 1977 | Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |  France | 2–0 | 2–2 | Friendly | [20] |
| 12 | 14 July 1977 | Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero,Cali, Colombia |  Bolivia | 3–0 | 8–0 | 1978 FIFA World Cup qualification | [21] |
| 13 | 11 June 1978 | Estadio José María Minella,Mar del Plata, Argentina |  Austria | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1978 FIFA World Cup | [22] |
| 14 | 21 June 1978 | Estadio Malvinas Argentinas,Mendoza, Argentina |  Poland | 2–1 | 3–1 | 1978 FIFA World Cup | [23] |
| 15 | 3–1 | ||||||
| 16 | 26 July 1979 | Estadio Hernando Siles,La Paz, Bolivia | Bolivia | – | 1–2 | 1979 Copa América | [24] |
| 17 | 28 October 1981 | Estádio Olímpico Monumental,Porto Alegre, Brazil | Bulgaria | 1–0 | 3–0 | Friendly | [25] |
| 18 | 17 August 1983 | Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa,Quito, Ecuador |  Ecuador | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1983 Copa América | [26] |
| 19 | 1 September 1983 | Estádio Serra Dourada,Goiânia, Brazil | Ecuador | 2–0 | 5–0 | 1983 Copa América | [27] |
| 20 | 3–0 |
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