Paulo Isidoro

{{Short description|Brazilian footballer (born 1953)}}

{{for|the Brazilian football striker|Paulo Isidoro (footballer, born 1973)}}

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| fullname = Paulo Isidoro de Jesus

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1953|8|3|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Belo Horizonte, Brazil

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| position = Midfielder

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| nationalyears1 = 1977–1983

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Paulo Isidoro de Jesus (born 3 August 1953), known as Paulo Isidoro, is a Brazilian former association footballer who played as an offensive midfielder.

In 1981, he received the Bola de Ouro award. He was capped 41 times with the Brazil national team between June 1977 and July 1983, and played in four out of the team's five matches at the 1982 FIFA World Cup, always as a substitute (usually for Serginho Chulapa).[https://web.archive.org/web/20080929181218/http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/statisticsandrecords/players/player=63750/index.html Paulo Isidoro Statistics] FIFA. Retrieved 4 February 2010.