Mauro Silva

Mauro Silva
Personal information
Full name Mauro da Silva Gomes
Date of birth (1968-01-12) 12 January 1968
Place of birth São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)
Playing position Defensive midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1987–1989 Guarani 1 (0)
1990–1992 Bragantino 61 (0)
1992–2005 Deportivo La Coruña 369 (1)
Total 431 (1)
National team
1991–2001 Brazil 59 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Mauro da Silva Gomes (Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈmawɾu ˈsiwvɐ]; born 12 January 1968), known as Silva, is a Brazilian retired footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.

A workhorse with incredible stamina, as well as tackling and leadership skills, he was best known for his spell with Deportivo de La Coruña. Over the course of 13 seasons he amassed La Liga totals of 369 games and one goal, winning six major titles.

Silva represented Brazil at the 1994 World Cup and two Copa América tournaments, winning the former.

Football career

Silva was born in São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo. After starting playing with Guarani Futebol Clube he moved to Clube Atlético Bragantino in 1990, where he spent the following two seasons. Subsequently he was acquired up by Spain's Deportivo de La Coruña, for 250 million pesetas (approximately €1.6 million), arriving at the same time as countryman Bebeto.

Silva was an everpresent fixture with the Galicians, only suspensions and injuries preventing him from being cast into the starting XI – in the 1994–95 campaign he only appeared in six La Liga matches and, already 36, was limited to 20 in his final year – as he helped the club to one league, two cups and three supercups, adding to this the team's five participations in the UEFA Champions League, reaching the semi-finals in 2003–04: after a 0–0 away draw against FC Porto he missed the second leg due to suspension, and Depor lost 0–1.

On 22 May 2005, after 13 years with Deportivo, Silva was replaced by longtime understudy Aldo Duscher during a 0–3 home loss against RCD Mallorca, bidding farewell to the club and football in the same match as another club legend, Fran.[1] With Brazil he collected 59 caps in ten years, playing all the matches and minutes (except for the second half of the group stage match against Sweden) in the nation's victorious campaign at the 1994 FIFA World Cup; in that year, he was named by FIFA as the ninth best player in the world.[2]

Statistics

Club

Club performance League
Season Club League Apps Goals
Brazil League
1987GuaraniSérie A --
1988 10
1989 --
1990BragantinoSérie A 180
1991 210
1992 220
Spain League
1992/93DeportivoLa Liga 370
1993/94 351
1994/95 60
1995/96 220
1996/97 320
1997/98 310
1998/99 360
1999/00 330
2000/01 310
2001/02 270
2002/03 320
2003/04 270
2004/05 200
Country Brazil 620
Spain 3691
Total 4311

International

Brazil
Year Apps Goals
1991 130
1992 70
1993 110
1994 110
1995 10
1996 10
1997 100
1998 40
1999 00
2000 00
2001 10
Total590

Honours

Club

Bragantino
Deportivo

Country

Individual

References

  1. ↑ "El Mallorca da un portazo al ciclo de Fran y Mauro Silva" [Mallorca slams door on Fran and Mauro Silva's cycle] (in Spanish). Diario AS. 23 May 2005. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
  2. ↑ "FIFA Awards". RSSSF. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
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