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João Dickson Carvalho

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Full name
  
Joao Dickson Carvalho

Current team
  
Retired

Height
  
1.72 m

Date of birth
  
1952

Years
  
Team

Weight
  
67 kg

Place of birth
  
Sao Paulo, Brazil

Name
  
Joao Carvalho

Position
  
Forward

Playing position
  
Forward

Role
  
Football player


João Dickson Carvalho (born in São Paulo, Brazil) is a former Brazilian football player.

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Career

Carvalho was one of several foreign players in the Japan Soccer League, and during the 1977 season, he became the first foreign player to win the top scorer in the Japan Soccer League First Division. Carvalho scored a total of 77 goals in the league becoming the fourth all-time top scorer in the Japan Soccer League First Division history.

Personal honors

  • Japanese Footballer of the Year - 1 (1977)
  • Japan Soccer League First Division Top Scorer - 2 (1977 (on his own), 1978 (shared with Kunishige Kamamoto))
  • Japan Soccer League First Division Best Eleven - 5 (1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981)

    • References

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