Rinaldo (footballer, born 1966)

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| fullname = Antônio Rinaldo Gonçalves

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| position = Forward

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1966|10|31|df=y}}

| birth_place = Campina Grande, Brazil

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| years3 = 1987–1988

| years4 = 1989–1990

| years5 = 1991–1992

| years6 = 1992–1993

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| years12 = 2004

| clubs1 = Campinense

| clubs2 = Treze

| clubs3 = Santa Cruz

| clubs4 = Fluminense

| clubs5 = São Paulo

| clubs6 = Sport Recife

| clubs7 = Portuguesa

| clubs8 = Gamba Osaka

| clubs9 = Marítimo

| clubs10 = Moreirense

| clubs11 = Juventude

| clubs12 = Kärnten

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| nationalyears1 = 1990

| nationalteam1 = Brazil

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Antônio Rinaldo Gonçalves, commonly known simply as Rinaldo (born 31 October 1966) is a Brazilian former footballer. He played for several Campeonato Brasileiro Série A clubs. He also played for Portuguese Liga clubs and for the Brazil national team.

Career

Born in Campina Grande, Paraíba state, Rinaldo started his professional career playing for Campinense, then moving to their rivals Treze.{{cite web|title=Rinaldo |url=http://en.sambafoot.com/players/943_Rinaldo.html |accessdate=12 February 2009 |date=13 November 2004 |publisher=Sambafoot |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090819102458/http://en.sambafoot.com/players/943_Rinaldo.html |archivedate=19 August 2009 }} He played 36 Série A games for Santa Cruz between 1987 and 1988, scoring five goals.{{cite web|title=Rinaldo – todos os jogos |url=http://futpedia.globo.com/jogadores/rinaldo2/jogos/pagina/0/ordem/11 |accessdate=12 February 2009 |publisher=Futpédia |language=Portuguese }}{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} He then joined Fluminense, playing 21 Série A games and scoring seven goals for the Rio de Janeiro-based club. With São Paulo, Rinaldo played 15 Série A games, scoring two goals, between 1991 and 1992. Including other competition games, he played 28 games for São Paulo, and scored four goals.{{cite web| title= Rinaldo (ex-ponta do Santa Cruz, Flu, São Paulo, Sport, Treze e Campinense)| url= http://desenvolvimento.miltonneves.com.br/QFL/Conteudo.aspx?ID=60906| accessdate= 12 February 2009| date= 21 November 2007| publisher= Milton Neves| language= Portuguese| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20090311004223/http://desenvolvimento.miltonneves.com.br/QFL/Conteudo.aspx?ID=60906| archivedate= 11 March 2009| url-status= dead| df= mdy-all}} In 1992, he played four Copa do Brasil games for Sport Recife, scoring four goals. He left the club after the 1993 season. After leaving Sport Recife, he played for Portuguesa, then Portuguese Liga clubs Marítimo and Moreirense, Juventude, and in 1994 Kärnten of Austria, when he retired and moved to Recife city.

=National team=

Rinaldo played only one game for the Brazil national team, in 1990.{{cite book | title = Seleção Brasileira 1914–2006 | publisher=Mauad X | location = São Paulo | year = 2006 | pages = 292–293| isbn = 85-7478-186-X}} It was a friendly game against a Rest of the World combined team to celebrate Pelé's 50th birthday. The game was played on 31 October 1990, at Stadio San Siro, Milan, Italy, and Brazil was defeated 2–1. The game is notorious because after Rinaldo received a pass from Pelé, instead of returning the ball to him, he shot the ball, missing the goal, and preventing Pelé from scoring his 1282nd goal.