Roberto Dinamite
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Carlos Roberto de Oliveira | ||
| Date of birth | 13 April 1954 | ||
| Place of birth | Duque de Caxias, Brazil | ||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1970–1971 | Vasco da Gama | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1971–1979 | Vasco da Gama | 161 | (92) |
| 1979–1980 | Barcelona | 8 | (2) |
| 1980–1989 | Vasco da Gama | 134 | (89) |
| 1989–1990 | Portuguesa | 16 | (9) |
| 1990 | Vasco da Gama | 4 | (0) |
| 1991 | Campo Grande | 14 | (0) |
| 1992–1993 | Vasco da Gama | 2 | (0) |
| Total | 339 | (198) | |
| National team | |||
| 1972 | Brazil Olympic team | 5 | (1) |
| 1975–1984 | Brazil | 47 | (26) |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
Carlos Roberto de Oliveira, nicknamed Roberto Dinamite (born 13 April 1954) is a former footballer and politician. He was born in Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro state. With a career as centre-forward spanning over twenty years, Dinamite rose to legendary status playing for Vasco da Gama, becoming the club's player with the most appearances and all-time top-scorer, as well as the overall leading scorer in the Brazilian Série A. At the national level, Dinamite played in the 1978 and 1982 World Cups and the 1972 Olympic Games. He was president of Vasco da Gama from 2008 to 2014.
Roberto Dinamite was developed at Vasco da Gama youth squad. He is one of the most famous Vasco da Gama players, and is the greatest goal scorer of the club. 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).
He was nicknamed Dinamite by the journalist Aparício Pires, of Jornal dos Sports newspaper, after scoring a spectacular goal in his debut in the professional team, on November 25, 1971, against Internacional, at Maracanã stadium. The journalist wrote in the newspaper that the Dynamite-Boy detonates at Maracanã.
In 1989 and 1990, he played for Portuguesa of São Paulo state, scoring 11 goals.
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