Cafu
Marcos Evangelista de Morais
Brazilian association football player (Wikidata description)
- Nationality
- Brazil
- Born
- 7 June 1970
- Position
- Unavailable
- Preferred foot
- Not verified
- Senior career
- 1990–2008
Clubs São Paulo FC · Real Zaragoza · Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras · Esporte Clube Juventude · AS Roma · AC Milan
Career statistics
Club figures here are senior domestic-league matches unless marked otherwise; international figures are full senior caps. Youth, reserve, Olympic, friendly and unofficial matches are excluded from totals. Totals are summed from the individual sourced records below. Where a record is missing, the figure is shown as unavailable — never as zero.
Club league apps
452
Club league goals
16
International caps
142
International goals
5
League goals / match
0.04
International goals / cap
0.04
All official apps
Unavailable
All-competition totals not yet sourced
Goals per 90
Unavailable
Requires minutes for every match
Assists: Unavailable — assists were not recorded consistently before the modern data era.
Club-by-club and international breakdown
| Team | Years | Counts | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil men's national football teamNational team | 1990–2006 | Full caps | 142 | 5 |
| São Paulo FCClub | 1990–1994 | League | 117 | 7 |
| Esporte Clube JuventudeClub | 1995 | League | 2 | 0 |
| Real ZaragozaClub | 1995 | League | 16 | 0 |
| Sociedade Esportiva PalmeirasClub | 1995–1997 | League | 35 | 0 |
| AS RomaClub | 1997–2003 | League | 163 | 5 |
| AC MilanClub | 2003–2008 | League | 119 | 4 |
Season by season
Season-level records are unavailable for this player in the current sources. They will appear here when a licensed season-by-season source is imported.
Team accolades
- ×2
FIFA World Cup
International
- 1994 · Brazil men's national football team
- 2002 · Brazil men's national football team
- ×2
Intercontinental Cup
Continental club
- 1992 · São Paulo FC
- 1993 · São Paulo FC
- ×2
Serie A
Domestic
- 2000–01 · AS Roma
- 2003–04 · AC Milan
- ×1
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
Domestic
- 1991 · São Paulo FC
- ×1
Copa Libertadores
Continental club
- 1992 · São Paulo FC
- ×1
European Cup / UEFA Champions League
Continental club
- 2006–07 · AC Milan
- ×1
FIFA Club World Cup
Continental club
- 2007 · AC Milan
Sourced stated or derived from referenced statementsProvisional inferred from club stint dates — squad membership not individually verifiedVerified checked by an editor
Individual accolades
- ×1
Ballon d'Or Dream Team
Individual award · France Football
- 2020
Career timeline
1990
- Senior international debut: Brazil men's national football team — Until 2006
- Joins São Paulo FC — Until 1994
1991
- Campeonato Brasileiro Série A winner — 1991 · São Paulo FC(provisional)
1992
- Copa Libertadores winner — 1992 · São Paulo FC(provisional)
- Intercontinental Cup winner — 1992 · São Paulo FC(provisional)
1993
- Intercontinental Cup winner — 1993 · São Paulo FC(provisional)
1994
- FIFA World Cup winner — 1994 · Brazil men's national football team
1995
- Joins Esporte Clube Juventude — Until 1995
- Joins Real Zaragoza — Until 1995
- Joins Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras — Until 1997
1997
- Joins AS Roma — Until 2003
2001
- Serie A winner — 2000–01 · AS Roma(provisional)
2002
- FIFA World Cup winner — 2002 · Brazil men's national football team
2003
- Joins AC Milan — Until 2008
2004
- Serie A winner — 2003–04 · AC Milan(provisional)
2007
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League winner — 2006–07 · AC Milan(provisional)
- FIFA Club World Cup winner — 2007 · AC Milan(provisional)
2020
- Ballon d'Or Dream Team — 2020(provisional)
Statistical score explained
Snapshot v2, methodology v1.0.0, published 27 October 2026. Each category is scored 0–100, multiplied by its weight, and summed. Full methodology →
Provisional estimate
39.2
Rank pending: 4 of 5 categories have evidence
Provisional4/5 categories with full evidence · 15% of inputs directly sourced
Coverage describes how complete the evidence is. It is not a probability and is separate from the score.
Peak performanceFull evidence29.2+8.75 points
- Best window
- 1990–1994
- Individual award points in window
- 0
- Award availability in window
- 0.841
- Team honor points in window
- 25
- Peak index
- 12.5
v1 measures peak through documented recognition (awards and titles) in the best rolling window, because season-level performance data is not available consistently across eras.
Career performanceUnavailableUnavailableno contribution
Primary position unknown; position-specific rules cannot be applied.
Individual accoladesFull evidence7.0+1.40 points
- Contemporary award points
- 0
- Award availability coverage
- 0.926
- Era-adjusted contemporary points
- 0
- Retrospective all-time honors
- 4
- Ballon d'Or Dream Team (2020)
- 4
Team accomplishmentsFull evidence73.4+11.02 points
- Team honor points
- 53.5
- Club-league catalog coverage
- 1
- Intercontinental Cup (1992)
- 2.5
- Intercontinental Cup (1993)
- 2.5
- FIFA Club World Cup (2007)
- 2.5
- Copa Libertadores (1992)
- 6
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League (2006–07)
- 8
- FIFA World Cup (1994)
- 12
- FIFA World Cup (2002)
- 12
- Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (1991)
- 2
- Serie A (2000–01)
- 3
- Serie A (2003–04)
- 3
Some club titles are inferred from stint dates overlapping a title-winning season (squad membership not individually verified).
LongevityFull evidence82.1+8.21 points
- Senior career length (years)
- 19 → 92.5
- Documented elite seasons
- 8 → 66
- International career length (years)
- 17 → 100
Appearance totals are deliberately not used, so accumulating matches alone does not raise this score.
Editorial biography
No editorial biography has been written yet. Biographies are written by hand with sources; none are generated automatically.
Sources
- Wikidata: Cafu (Q178683)CC0 1.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026
- Wikimedia Commons: Cafu - 26.02.2026 - Cerimônia de apresentação das taças da Copa do Mundo de 2026.jpgCC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026