SOCCER PLAYER

Nariz

1912 - 1984

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Álvaro Lopes Cançado, nicknamed "Nariz" (meaning "Nose") (Uberaba, February 8, 1912 – September 19, 1984)[1], was a Brazilian footballer who played as a defender for the Brazil national football team in the 1938 FIFA World Cup. He participated in only one match in that tournament, against Czechoslovakia. At the time, his club was Botafogo. In his final years in football, he played for Fluminense and Botafogo while studying medicine in Rio de Janeiro, retiring from the sport in 1941. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2024). Nariz is the 3,551st most popular soccer player (down from 2,760th in 2024), the 637th most popular biography from Brazil (down from 546th in 2019) and the 325th most popular Brazilian Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Nariz ranks 3,552 out of 21,273. Before him are Santiago Santamaría, Paolo Barison, Oleksandr Shovkovskiy, Renzo De Vecchi, László Raffinsky, Homare Sawa, and José Daniel Valencia. After him are Roberto Soldado, Franck Kessié, Alberto Denegri, Marcelinho Carioca, and Allal Benkassou.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Nariz ranks 318. Before him are Gordon Parks, Matthias Heidemann, Giuliano Nostini, Hilda Cameron, Rudolf Stahl, and Toni Merkens. After him are István Balogh, Walter, Eleanor Powell, Natalia Dudinskaya, Wilhelm Baumann, and Abdelkader Ben Bouali. Among people deceased in 1984, Nariz ranks 205. Before him are Antonio Maquilón, Anna Świrszczyńska, Chester Himes, Ramón Tapia, Virgil Jacomini, and Rudolf Stahl. After him are Renato Perona, Eino Purje, Donald Johnston, Carl Foreman, Estelle Winwood, and Byron Haskin.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Nariz ranks 637 out of 2,236. Before him are Giovanni Silva de Oliveira (1972), Fernando Haddad (1963), Carlos Alberto Dias (1967), Adãozinho (1923), Michel Teló (1981), and Alex Telles (1992). After him are Marcelinho Carioca (1971), Betinho (1966), Walter (1912), Toninho (1948), Márcio Melo (1906), and Joel Santana (1948).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Brazil

Among soccer players born in Brazil, Nariz ranks 325. Before him are Naldo (1982), Elano (1981), Giovanni Silva de Oliveira (1972), Carlos Alberto Dias (1967), Adãozinho (1923), and Alex Telles (1992). After him are Marcelinho Carioca (1971), Walter (1912), Toninho (1948), Joel Santana (1948), Luiz Vinhaes (1896), and Luiz Gervazoni (1907).

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