Dida (footballer, born 1973)

In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Jesus and the second or paternal family name is Silva.
Dida
Dida in 2012
Personal information
Full name Nélson de Jesus Silva[1]
Date of birth (1973-10-07) 7 October 1973 (age 50)
Place of birth Irará, Bahia, Brazil
Height 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)[2]
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
1990 Cruzeiro de Arapiraca
1991–1992 Vitória
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1992–1993 Vitória 24 (0)
1994–1998 Cruzeiro 120 (0)
1998–1999 Lugano 0 (0)
1999–2000 Corinthians 24 (0)
2000–2010 AC Milan 206 (0)
2001–2002 → Corinthians (loan) 8 (0)
2012 Portuguesa 32 (0)
2013 Grêmio 37 (0)
2014–2015 Internacional 27 (0)
Total 478 (0)
International career
1992–1993 Brazil U20 12 (0)
1996 Brazil Olympic 17 (0)
1995–2006 Brazil 91 (0)
Medal record
Representing  Brazil
FIFA World Cup
Winner 2002 Korea & Japan
Runner-up 1998 France
FIFA Confederations Cup
Winner 1997 Saudi Arabia
Winner 2005 Germany
Runner-up 1999 Mexico
Copa América
Winner 1999 Paraguay
Runner-up 1995 Uruguay
CONCACAF Gold Cup
Runner-up 1996 United States
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 1996 Atlanta
FIFA U–20 World Cup
Winner 1993 Australia
South American U-20 Championship
Winner 1992 Colombia
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Nélson de Jesus Silva[nb 1] (born 7 October 1973), better known simply as Dida (Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈdʒidɐ]), is a Brazilian former football goalkeeper and goalkeeping coach. He started his senior club career in Brazil in the early 1990s with Vitória before moving to Cruzeiro and Corinthians. He is perhaps best remembered for his ten-year stint with AC Milan from 2000 to 2010, where he established himself as one of the world's best goalkeepers and won multiple trophies and individual awards with the club, including one Serie A title (Scudetto) and twice the UEFA Champions League, with the first of those victories coming after he saved three penalties in the 2003 final against Serie A rivals Juventus, and is one of four Milan keepers with 300 career appearances. After a two-year absence from playing, he returned to Brazil in 2012, suiting up for three teams—Portuguesa, Grêmio and Internacional—in as many seasons. He returned to Milan to serve as their goalkeeping coach from 2020 to 2022.

At international level, Dida earned 91 caps in eleven years with the Brazil national team, winning the FIFA World Cup and an Olympic medal, while he is the most successful player in the history of the FIFA Confederations Cup. He notably broke a colour barrier during the 1999 Copa América by being the Seleção's first Afro-Brazilian starting goalkeeper since Moacir Barbosa half a century earlier and in 2006 became the first goalkeeper of this ethnicity to start for Brazil in a FIFA World Cup finals tournament since 1950, again when Barbosa was between the sticks.

Considered one of the best goalkeepers of his generation, Dida was the inaugural FIFPro Goalkeeper of the Year. He is additionally rated among the all-time greats in the position for Brazil alongside Marcos, Rogério Ceni, Cláudio Taffarel and Gilmar.[nb 2] Dida has been credited with helping end the prejudice against black goalkeepers in Brazilian club football due to his success in Europe, and upon joining Internacional in 2014, became the first Afro-Brazilian keeper to play for the club in 43 years.

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