Celso Dias dos Santos better known as Celso, (born February 28, 1956 in Santos (Sao Paulo)

Santos (São Paulo)

-Sister cities: Shimonoseki, Japan Nagasaki, Japan Funchal, Portugal Trieste, Italy Coimbra, Portugal Ansião, Portugal Arouca, Portugal Ushuaia, Argentina Havana, Cuba Taizhou. China Ningbo. China Constanţa, Romania Ulsan, South Korea Colón, Panama* Cadiz, Spain...

) is a former Brazilian footballer

Football (soccer)

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 who played for FC Porto and was part of their European Cup

UEFA Champions League

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 victory in 1987

European Cup 1986-87

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Celso played as a central defender and joined Porto when moving to Europe from his hometown club of Santos Futebol Clube

Santos Futebol Clube

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. In the 1986-7 season he scored 3 goals for Porto en route to their victory in the European Cup, despite playing as a defender. Celso was brought to Portugal in 1985 as a centre-forward and was a noted long-range free-kick expert before being converted to a defender for Porto.

In November 1987 Celso was named in the World Soccer

World Soccer

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World XI despite not having been capped at international level.