Didi
Brazilian footballer (1928-2001) (Wikidata description)
- Nationality
- Brazil
- Born
- 8 October 1928
- Died
- 12 May 2001
- Position
- Midfielder
- Preferred foot
- Not verified
- Senior career
- 1946–1966
Clubs Americano Futebol Clube · Clube Atlético Lençoense/Bariri · Madureira Esporte Clube · Fluminense F.C. · Botafogo F.R. · Real Madrid Club de Fútbol · Club Sporting Cristal · Tiburones Rojos de Veracruz · São Paulo FC
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
353
Incomplete: some spells unrecorded
Club league goals
161
International caps
68
International goals
20
League goals / match
0.37
International goals / cap
0.29
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Madureira Esporte ClubeClub | 1948–1949 | League | 32 | 8 |
| Fluminense F.C.Club | 1949–1956 | League | 150 | 51 |
| Brazil men's national football teamNational team | 1952–1962 | Full caps | 68 | 20 |
| Botafogo F.R.Club | 1957–1965 | League | 119 | 60 |
| Real Madrid Club de FútbolClub | 1959–1960 | League | 19 | 6 |
| Club Sporting CristalClub | 1963 | League | Unavailable | 32 |
| Tiburones Rojos de VeracruzClub | 1965–1966 | League | 29 | 4 |
| São Paulo FCClub | 1966 | League | 4 | 0 |
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
- 1958 · Brazil men's national football team
- 1962 · Brazil men's national football team
- ×1
European Cup / UEFA Champions League
Continental club
- 1959–60 · Real Madrid Club de Fútbol
- ×1
Intercontinental Cup
Continental club
- 1960 · Real Madrid Club de Fútbol
Sourced stated or derived from referenced statementsProvisional inferred from club stint dates — squad membership not individually verifiedVerified checked by an editor
Individual accolades
No dated individual awards from the catalog are recorded for this player in the current sources. This may reflect incomplete source data rather than an absence of awards; editors can add sourced entries.
Career timeline
1946
- Joins Americano Futebol Clube — Until 1946
- Joins Clube Atlético Lençoense/Bariri — Until 1948
1948
- Joins Madureira Esporte Clube — Until 1949
1949
- Joins Fluminense F.C. — Until 1956
1952
- Senior international debut: Brazil men's national football team — Until 1962
1957
- Joins Botafogo F.R. — Until 1959
1958
- FIFA World Cup winner — 1958 · Brazil men's national football team
1959
- Joins Real Madrid Club de Fútbol — Until 1960
1960
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League winner — 1959–60 · Real Madrid Club de Fútbol(provisional)
- Intercontinental Cup winner — 1960 · Real Madrid Club de Fútbol(provisional)
- Joins Botafogo F.R. — Until 1962
1962
- FIFA World Cup winner — 1962 · Brazil men's national football team
1963
- Joins Club Sporting Cristal — Until 1963
1964
- Joins Botafogo F.R. — Until 1965
1965
- Joins Tiburones Rojos de Veracruz — Until 1966
1966
- Joins São Paulo FC — Until 1966
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
56.2
Rank pending: 4 of 5 categories have evidence
Provisional3/5 categories with full evidence · 33% of inputs directly sourced
Coverage describes how complete the evidence is. It is not a probability and is separate from the score.
Peak performanceLimited evidence37.7+11.31 points
- Best window
- 1958–1962
- Individual award points in window
- 0
- Award availability in window
- 0
- Team honor points in window
- 34.5
- Peak index
- 17.25
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.
Award availability during the peak window was very low; this indicator understates players from that era.
Career performanceFull evidence74.9+18.72 points
- League goals per match
- 0.365 → 78.09
- International goals per cap
- 0.294 → 73.82
- International caps per year
- 6.18 → 74.09
Individual accoladesUnavailableUnavailableno contribution
- Award availability coverage
- 0
Major individual awards were essentially unavailable to this player and no retrospective honors are recorded.
Team accomplishmentsFull evidence58.4+8.76 points
- Team honor points
- 34.5
- Club-league catalog coverage
- 0.952
- Intercontinental Cup (1960)
- 2.5
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League (1959–60)
- 8
- FIFA World Cup (1958)
- 12
- FIFA World Cup (1962)
- 12
Some club titles are inferred from stint dates overlapping a title-winning season (squad membership not individually verified).
LongevityFull evidence61.4+6.13 points
- Senior career length (years)
- 21 → 100
- Documented elite seasons
- 3 → 27
- International career length (years)
- 11 → 71
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: Didi (Q312486)CC0 1.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026
- Wikimedia Commons: Waldir Pereira 1958.jpgPublic domain · retrieved 27 October 2026