Ze Roberto: career and life of the star brazilian footballer

Ze Roberto is one of the most, perhaps, popular footballers. He was born in 1974, on July 6, and now he is 41 years old! But nevertheless he continues to perform successfully. At the moment, the player plays for FC Palmeiras. He has a very eventful and interesting career, so it should be told about it.

Attempts to show potential

What can be the first thing to tell about a player like Ze Roberto? Rating, statistics, profile of the player - all this is very interesting, but I would like to start with a list of clubs in which he happened to perform. And such, it should be noted, a lot. So, the first team was FC "Pekeninos de Jockey". This is a youth club, in which the young player stayed from 1981 to 1993. Quite a solid period of time! Then, from 1994 to 1997, he played for "Portughesa Desportos". I went to the field 61 times, and for all these games I made only one goal. But showed a good technique midfielder, so that he bought the "Real". But there Ze Roberto stayed only a season, after which he returned to Brazil - to play for Flamengo. However, even there he did not stay even for a year.

Way to success

In the same 1998, he moved to Germany. There he was greeted with open arms in "Beier Leverkusen". In this team, he demonstrated obvious success: in 113 games - 17 goals. Yes, and defended the colors of the club Ze Roberto for four years - until 2002. But the longest he played in the beautiful Munich club "Bavaria". For seven years! He played 169 matches and scored 14 goals against the opponents. However, for a year he was rented by FC Santos in 2006. Where the footballer also showed great results: for 29 games - as many as 11 goals. After the "Bavaria" the Brazilian moved to "Hamburg", but there he stayed only for two years, going on the field 42 times and having issued six goals.

His next club was FC Al-Garafa, the Qatari team. But after 2012, finally returned to his homeland. First in FC Gremio, where he played 82 games (6 goals), and then, in 2015 (current), moved to Palmeiras. At the moment, the Brazilian have 2 goals and 20 games. Despite the fact that he is 41, Ze Roberto is a football player who continues to score. Let and began his career is not very successful.

More about successes

Well, how it was possible to understand (from everything that was written at the beginning), Ze Roberto did not succeed at once. It is worthwhile to expand this topic in more detail. So, he started playing football in the club's sports school, which was called "Portughesa Desportos". In fact, the Brazilian immediately established himself as a good defensive midfielder and after a while went to Europe. Of course, he invited Madrid "Real", which bought out a young and potential player for a decent amount of 21 million euros. However, because of too much competition, the player had a lot of time to sit on the bench. He was rarely released on the field. Total in this club, as already mentioned above, the player spent 15 matches, of which five times was in the starting lineup. There were no heads. So the leadership of Madrid, having conferred, decided to sell the player. The first season in a really good, titled club turned out to be a popular player now a failure. But then everything became better.

World fame

To date, one of the most recognizable and popular players in football is Ze Roberto. Biography, goals, career - everything concerning his life, is known to almost every connoisseur of this sport. Success to the player came in Germany. To win the Brazilian went for a long time. At first it did not work out in Real Madrid, then he quarreled with the head coach of Flamengo. But a career in the Leverkusen "Bayer" made him a world-class star. Although it is interesting that initially they were still interested in "Milan". But the footballer himself said that he no longer wants to move to the famous club, at least until he reveals himself. And Roberto has not lost. He showed his potential and everything he could. They became interested in such teams as "Bavaria", "Milan", "Liverpool", "Juventus". But 18 million euros for the player was able to give only the Munich club, where Ze Roberto instantly entrenched.

Well, in the end - a couple of words about the career of the Brazilian in his national team. On his account - 6 goals and 84 games. In 2007, just before the America's Cup began, the player said that he decided to finish his performances for the national team. However, the club career and did not intend to give up. As you can see, the football player is still successfully playing for his current club and, probably, for some time still plans to stay in the game.