Gamba (footballer)

{{short description|Brazilian footballer (1893-1944)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2024}}

{{Infobox football biography

|name = Gamba

|image =

|fullname = Carlos Alberto Gambarotta

|birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1893|12|7}}

|birth_place =

|death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1944|3|17|1893|12|7}}

|death_place = Mantiqueira Mountains, Campos do Jordão, São Paulo, Brazil

|height =

|position = Forward

|youthyears1 = {{0|0000}}–1918

|youthclubs1 = Ítalo

|years1 = 1919–1928 |clubs1 = Corinthians |caps1 = 167 |goals1 = 82

|years2 = 1931–1933 |clubs2 = Bahia |caps2 = |goals2 =

|totalcaps =

|totalgoals =

|nationalyears1 = 1922

|nationalteam1 = Brazil

|nationalcaps1 = 2

|nationalgoals1 = 2

}}

Carlos Alberto Gambarotta (7 December 1893 – 17 March 1944), known as Gamba, was a Brazilian footballer who played for Corinthians and Bahia. He was capped twice by the Brazil national football team in 1922, scoring two goals.{{WorldFootball.net|gamba}}{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssfbrasil.com/sel/brazil191422.htm|title=Seleção Brasileira (Brazilian National Team) 1914-1922|accessdate=15 November 2021|website=rsssfbrasil.com|language=Portuguese}}{{cite web|url=https://www.meutimao.com.br/jogador-do-corinthians/carlos-gambarotta|title=Gambarotta, ex-jogador do Corinthians|accessdate=15 November 2021|website=meutimao.com.br|language=Portuguese}}

Career statistics

=International=

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
National teamYearAppsGoals
rowspan="1"|Brazil

|1922

22
colspan=2|Total22

=International goals=

:Scores and results list Brazil's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Brazil goal.

class="wikitable sortable"

|+ List of international goals scored by Gamba

scope="col"|No.

!scope="col"|Date

!scope="col"|Venue

!scope="col"|Opponent

!scope="col"|Score

!scope="col"|Result

!scope="col"|Competition

align="center"|1

|{{dts|22 October 1922}}

|Parque Antártica, São Paulo, Brazil

|{{fb|ARG}}

|align="center"|?–?

|align="center"|2–1

|Copa Julio Argentino Roca

align="center"|1

|{{dts|29 October 1922}}

|Chácara da Floresta, São Paulo, Brazil

|{{fb|PAR}}

|align="center"|?–?

|align="center"|3–1

|Copa Rodrigues Alves

Honours

References