Geraldo Assoviador

Brazilian footballer (1954-1976)

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Geraldo Assoviador
Personal information
Full name	Geraldo Cleofas Dias Alves
Date of birth	(1954-04-16)16 April 1954
Place of birth	Barão de Cocais, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Date of death	26 August 1976(1976-08-26) (aged 22)
Place of death	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
1971–1972	Flamengo
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1973–1976	Flamengo	58	(1)
International career
1975–1976	Brazil	5	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Geraldo Cleofas Dias Alves (16 April 1954 – 26 August 1976), better known as Geraldo Assoviador, was a Brazilian International footballer.

Career

Geraldo Assoviador spent his entire career at Flamengo of Rio de Janeiro. In the Brazilian league, he appeared in 58 games and scored one goal. In all the competitions played for Flamengo he has a total of 168 matches and 13 goals.^[1] He has 5 caps for Brazil representing the country at the 1975 Copa América.

Personal life

His brother Washington Geraldo Dias Alves is a former professional footballer too, having played ten years of his career in Portugal – mainly with Varzim – where his children were born to a Portuguese mother.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] His nephews Geraldo, Bruno, and Júlio also played the sport.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Death

He died on 26 August 1976 at age 22 after a tonsillitis operation. Although the intervention went as planned, the player suffered an anaphylaxis shock due to the local anesthesia that produced a cardiac arrest.^[6]

Honours

Club

Flamengo

Campeonato Carioca: 1974
Taça Guanabara: 1973

International

Brazil

Taça do Atlântico: 1976^[7]

References

^ "Geraldo Cleofas Dias profile". Mamvs.narod.ru. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
^ "Biografia" [Biography] (in Portuguese). Portuguese Football Federation. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
^ ^a ^b "Washington: «Aconselhei os meus filhos a serem sempre profissionais»" [Washington: "I advised my children to always be professionals"] (in Portuguese). Record.pt. 23 March 2000. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
^ ^a ^b Bruno Alves: «Sinto grande orgulho no Geraldo e no Júlio» (Bruno Alves: «I am very proud of Geraldo and Júlio») Archived 2015-12-08 at the Wayback Machine; Mais Futebol, 26 August 2011 (in Portuguese)
^ ^a ^b La dinastía que une Brasil y Portugal (The dynasty that unites Brazil and Portugal) Archived 14 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine; FIFA.com, 2 April 2014 (in Spanish)
^ "A história de Geraldo, revelação do Fla nos anos 70 que morreu aos 22 anos" [The story of Geraldo, Fla's revelation in the 70's who died at age 22] (in Portuguese). globo.com. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
^ "Copa del Atlántico". RSSSF. 2008-04-18. Retrieved 2017-10-09.