Carvalho (footballer)

Carvalho
Personal information
Full name	João Dixon Carvalho
Date of birth	1952 (age 73–74)
Place of birth	São Paulo, Brazil
Height	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position	Forward
Senior career*
Years	Team
	Guarani
	Barretos
	Fluminense
	Porto Alegre
	Rio Preto
1975–1982	Towa Real Estate/Fujita Industry
1983–1986	Yokohama Tristar/ANA
	* Club domestic league appearances and goals

João Dixon Carvalho (born 1952) is a Brazilian former football player.

Career

Carvalho was one of several foreign players in the Japan Soccer League,^[1] and during the 1977 season, he became the first foreign player to win the top scorer in the Japan Soccer League First Division. Carvalho scored a total of 77 goals in the league^[2] becoming the fourth all-time top scorer in the Japan Soccer League First Division history.

Personal honors

Japanese Footballer of the Year - 1 (1977)
Japan Soccer League First Division Top Scorer - 2 (1977 (on his own), 1978 (shared with Kunishige Kamamoto))
Japan Soccer League First Division Best Eleven - 5 (1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981)

References

↑ "サッカーマガジン (The Soccer Magazine)" (in Japanese). Kagawa Soccer Library. 1 May 1984.
↑ "セルジオ越後とフジタ (Fujita and Sergio Echigo)" (in Japanese). Kagawa Soccer Library. Retrieved 2 November 2010.

[1] "サッカーマガジン (The Soccer Magazine)" (in Japanese). Kagawa Soccer Library. 1 May 1984.

[2] "セルジオ越後とフジタ (Fujita and Sergio Echigo)" (in Japanese). Kagawa Soccer Library. Retrieved 2 November 2010.

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