Paulo Silas
Encyclopedia
Paulo Silas do Prado Pereira, best known as Silas (born August 27, 1965 in Campinas
) is a former Brazil
ian football (soccer)
player and is currently manager
of the Qatari club Al-Arabi.
, Vasco da Gama, Atlético Paranaense
, Rio Branco (SP)
, Ituano
, América (MG)
, Portuguesa
, Internacional de Limeira, Sporting Lisbon, San Lorenzo de Almagro
, Central Español
, Kyoto Purple Sanga, A.C. Cesena
and U.C. Sampdoria
.
, and with the senior team
he played 38 matches (34 official), from March 1986 to December 1992, and participated in the 1986
and 1990 FIFA World Cup
s.
. According to club director Luis Onofre Meira, "Silas is the manager we need for our team - young, but still an expert with many victories in his career. In fact, he was the best manager in 2009." .
, São Paulo
, Brazil
. He has a twin brother, Paulo Antonio, they are the youngest in a family of nine. Geni, their mother died when the boys were only three years old. The oldest sister Raquel Pereira Carvalho, a lawyer, took them under her wing and raised them. The Pereira family is well known in the city of Campinas. The nine of them are all married, and each have at least two children. Paulo Silas has three: Nathan, Carole, and Calebi. After living in Japan
, the family moved back to Brazil
where Paulo Silas is coaching a professional soccer team. His son Nathan Grippe Pereira, hopes to follow in his father's foot steps and become a professional soccer player.
|1985||rowspan="4"|São Paulo||rowspan="4"|Série A
||11||3||||||||||11||3
|-
|1986||33||9||||||||||33||9
|-
|1987||13||5||||||||||13||5
|-
|1988||0||0||||||||||0||0
|-
|1988/89||rowspan="2"|Sporting Portugal||rowspan="2"|Portuguese Liga
||35||8||||||||||35||8
|-
|1989/90||12||3||||||||||12||3
|-
|1990||Central Español
||Primera División
||2||3||||||||||2||3
|-
|1990/91||Cesena
||Serie A
||26||3||||||||||26||3
|-
|1991/92||Sampdoria
||Serie A
||31||3||||||||||31||3
|-
|1992||rowspan="2"|Internacional||rowspan="2"|Série A
||0||0||||||||||0||0
|-
|1993||0||0||||||||||0||0
|-
|1993||Vasco da Gama||Série A
||6||0||||||||||6||0
|-
|1993/94||rowspan="5"|San Lorenzo Almagro||rowspan="5"|Primera División
||8||5||||||||||8||5
|-
|1994/95||35||7||||||||||35||7
|-
|1995/96||23||3||||||||||23||3
|-
|1996/97||25||9||||||||||25||9
|-
|1997/98||4||0||||||||||4||0
|-
|1997||São Paulo||Série A
||5||0||||||||||5||0
|-
|1998||rowspan="2"|Kyoto Purple Sanga||rowspan="2"|J. League 1||30||5||2||1||2||0||34||6
|-
|1999||26||6||2||0||4||3||32||9
|-
|2000||Atlético Paranaense
||Série A
||20||0||||||||||20||0
|-
|2001||América-MG||Série A
||6||0||||||||||6||0
94||17||||||||||94||17
47||11||||||||||47||11
2||3||||||||||2||3
57||6||||||||||57||6
95||24||||||||||95||24
56||11||4||1||6||3||66||15
351||72||4||1||6||3||361||76
|}
|1986||5||0
|-
|1987||5||0
|-
|1988||0||0
|-
|1989||16||1
|-
|1990||6||0
|-
|1991||0||0
|-
|1992||2||0
|-
!Total||34||1
|}
Campinas
Campinas is a city and municipality located in the coastal interior of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. is the administrative center of the meso-region of the same name, with 3,783,597 inhabitants as of the 2010 Census, consisting of 49 cities....
) is a former Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
ian football (soccer)
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
player and is currently manager
Coach (sport)
In sports, a coach is an individual involved in the direction, instruction and training of the operations of a sports team or of individual sportspeople.-Staff:...
of the Qatari club Al-Arabi.
Career
During his playing career from 1985 to 2003 he played in Brazil, Portugal, Uruguay, Argentina, Japan and Italy at São Paulo, Sport Club InternacionalSport Club Internacional
Sport Club Internacional is a Brazilian football team and multi-sport club from Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, founded on April 4, 1909, and are one of the only five clubs to have never been relegated, along with Santos, São Paulo, Flamengo and Cruzeiro. They play in red shirts, white shorts and...
, Vasco da Gama, Atlético Paranaense
Clube Atlético Paranaense
Clube Atlético Paranaense is a Brazilian football team from Curitiba in Paraná, founded on March 26, 1924. The club won the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A in 2001.-History:...
, Rio Branco (SP)
Rio Branco Esporte Clube
Rio Branco Esporte Clube, usually known simply as Rio Branco or Rio Branco-SP, is a Brazilian football club based in the city of Americana in the São Paulo state of Brazil. It plays in the Série A2, the second division, of the Campeonato Paulista.-History:On August 4, 1913, the club was founded as...
, Ituano
Ituano Futebol Clube
Ituano Futebol Clube, also known as Ituano Sociedade Civil de Futebol Ltda, or Ituano as they are usually called, is a Brazilian football team from Itu in São Paulo, founded on May 24, 1947.-History:...
, América (MG)
América Futebol Clube (MG)
América Futebol Clube is a traditional Brazilian football team from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, founded on April 30, 1912....
, Portuguesa
Associação Portuguesa de Desportos
Associação Portuguesa de Desportos, usually called Portuguesa or Lusa, is a sports club, and a Brazilian football team from São Paulo in São Paulo state, founded on August 14, 1920 by the Portuguese population of the city.-History:...
, Internacional de Limeira, Sporting Lisbon, San Lorenzo de Almagro
Club Atlético San Lorenzo de Almagro
Club Atlético San Lorenzo de Almagro is an Argentine sports club based in Boedo neighbourhood, Buenos Aires, mostly known because of its football team....
, Central Español
Central Español
Central Español Fútbol Club, usually known simply as Central Español is a Uruguayan football club based in Montevideo.- The F.U.F era :Together with Peñarol, Central founded F.U.F in 1923 after being expelled from A.U.F...
, Kyoto Purple Sanga, A.C. Cesena
A.C. Cesena
Associazione Calcio Cesena is an Italian football club based in Cesena, Romagna. The club was formed in 1940 and won the first promotion to Serie A in 1973. Since then, the club have been in the Italian Premier League for a total of in 11 seasons, reaching the best achievement in 1976 with the 6th...
and U.C. Sampdoria
U.C. Sampdoria
Unione Calcio Sampdoria is an Italian association football club based in Genoa. The club was formed in 1946 from the merger of two existing sports clubs whose roots can be traced back to the 1890s, Sampierdarenese and Andrea Doria...
.
International career
With the Brazilian Youth Team, Silas won the Adidas Golden Ball at 1985 FIFA World Youth Championship1985 FIFA World Youth Championship
The 1985 FIFA World Youth Championship, the ninth edition of the FIFA World Youth Championship, was held in the Soviet Union from August 24 to September 7, 1985. The tournament took place in eight venues — Baku, Yerevan, Leningrad, Minsk, Moscow, Hoktemberyan, Tbilissi and Sumqayit — where a total...
, and with the senior team
Brazil national football team
The Brazil national football team represents Brazil in international men's football and is controlled by the Brazilian Football Confederation , the governing body for football in Brazil. They are a member of the International Federation of Association Football since 1923 and also a member of the...
he played 38 matches (34 official), from March 1986 to December 1992, and participated in the 1986
1986 FIFA World Cup
The 1986 FIFA World Cup, the 13th FIFA World Cup, was held in Mexico from 31 May to 29 June. The tournament was the second to feature a 24-team format. Colombia had been originally chosen to host the competition by FIFA but, largely due to economic reasons, was not able to do so and officially...
and 1990 FIFA World Cup
1990 FIFA World Cup
The 1990 FIFA World Cup was the 14th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football world championship tournament. It was held from 8 June to 8 July 1990 in Italy, the second country to host the event twice. Teams representing 116 national football associations from all six populated...
s.
Coaching career
On December 7, 2009 chairman Duda Kroeff introduced the 44-year-old as the new manager of Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto AlegrenseGrêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense
Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense, commonly known as just Grêmio , is a Brazilian professional association football team based in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul founded by English and German immigrants on September 15, 1903. Major titles captured by Grêmio include one Intercontinental Cup, two Copa...
. According to club director Luis Onofre Meira, "Silas is the manager we need for our team - young, but still an expert with many victories in his career. In fact, he was the best manager in 2009." .
Personal life
Silas was born to Geni and Alberto Pereira in CampinasCampinas
Campinas is a city and municipality located in the coastal interior of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. is the administrative center of the meso-region of the same name, with 3,783,597 inhabitants as of the 2010 Census, consisting of 49 cities....
, São Paulo
São Paulo
São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...
, Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
. He has a twin brother, Paulo Antonio, they are the youngest in a family of nine. Geni, their mother died when the boys were only three years old. The oldest sister Raquel Pereira Carvalho, a lawyer, took them under her wing and raised them. The Pereira family is well known in the city of Campinas. The nine of them are all married, and each have at least two children. Paulo Silas has three: Nathan, Carole, and Calebi. After living in Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
, the family moved back to Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
where Paulo Silas is coaching a professional soccer team. His son Nathan Grippe Pereira, hopes to follow in his father's foot steps and become a professional soccer player.
Club career statistics
|-|1985||rowspan="4"|São Paulo||rowspan="4"|Série A
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
The Campeonato Brasileiro de Clubes da Série A , popularly known as the Brasileirão , is a professional football league at the top of the Brazilian football league system held annually since 1959. Contested by twenty clubs, it operates a system of promotion and relegation with the Série B...
||11||3||||||||||11||3
|-
|1986||33||9||||||||||33||9
|-
|1987||13||5||||||||||13||5
|-
|1988||0||0||||||||||0||0
|-
|1988/89||rowspan="2"|Sporting Portugal||rowspan="2"|Portuguese Liga
Portuguese Liga
The Primeira Liga , formerly called Primeira Divisão, currently named Liga ZON Sagres after their main sponsors, is the top professional association football division of the Portuguese football league system...
||35||8||||||||||35||8
|-
|1989/90||12||3||||||||||12||3
|-
|1990||Central Español
Central Español
Central Español Fútbol Club, usually known simply as Central Español is a Uruguayan football club based in Montevideo.- The F.U.F era :Together with Peñarol, Central founded F.U.F in 1923 after being expelled from A.U.F...
||Primera División
Primera División Uruguaya
The Liga Profesional de Primera División , also known as the Primera División Uruguaya or Primera División de Uruguay , is a professional football league in Uruguay at the top of the country's football league system. It is organized by the Uruguayan Football Association and is contested by 16 teams...
||2||3||||||||||2||3
|-
|1990/91||Cesena
A.C. Cesena
Associazione Calcio Cesena is an Italian football club based in Cesena, Romagna. The club was formed in 1940 and won the first promotion to Serie A in 1973. Since then, the club have been in the Italian Premier League for a total of in 11 seasons, reaching the best achievement in 1976 with the 6th...
||Serie A
Serie A
Serie A , now called Serie A TIM due to sponsorship by Telecom Italia, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and has been operating for over eighty years since 1929. It had been organized by Lega Calcio until 2010, but a new...
||26||3||||||||||26||3
|-
|1991/92||Sampdoria
U.C. Sampdoria
Unione Calcio Sampdoria is an Italian association football club based in Genoa. The club was formed in 1946 from the merger of two existing sports clubs whose roots can be traced back to the 1890s, Sampierdarenese and Andrea Doria...
||Serie A
Serie A
Serie A , now called Serie A TIM due to sponsorship by Telecom Italia, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and has been operating for over eighty years since 1929. It had been organized by Lega Calcio until 2010, but a new...
||31||3||||||||||31||3
|-
|1992||rowspan="2"|Internacional||rowspan="2"|Série A
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
The Campeonato Brasileiro de Clubes da Série A , popularly known as the Brasileirão , is a professional football league at the top of the Brazilian football league system held annually since 1959. Contested by twenty clubs, it operates a system of promotion and relegation with the Série B...
||0||0||||||||||0||0
|-
|1993||0||0||||||||||0||0
|-
|1993||Vasco da Gama||Série A
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
The Campeonato Brasileiro de Clubes da Série A , popularly known as the Brasileirão , is a professional football league at the top of the Brazilian football league system held annually since 1959. Contested by twenty clubs, it operates a system of promotion and relegation with the Série B...
||6||0||||||||||6||0
|-
|1993/94||rowspan="5"|San Lorenzo Almagro||rowspan="5"|Primera División
Primera División Argentina
The Primera División is a professional football league in Argentina. It is the country's premier football division and is at the top of the Argentine football league system. Contested by twenty clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the Primera B Nacional. The season runs...
||8||5||||||||||8||5
|-
|1994/95||35||7||||||||||35||7
|-
|1995/96||23||3||||||||||23||3
|-
|1996/97||25||9||||||||||25||9
|-
|1997/98||4||0||||||||||4||0
|-
|1997||São Paulo||Série A
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
The Campeonato Brasileiro de Clubes da Série A , popularly known as the Brasileirão , is a professional football league at the top of the Brazilian football league system held annually since 1959. Contested by twenty clubs, it operates a system of promotion and relegation with the Série B...
||5||0||||||||||5||0
|-
|1998||rowspan="2"|Kyoto Purple Sanga||rowspan="2"|J. League 1||30||5||2||1||2||0||34||6
|-
|1999||26||6||2||0||4||3||32||9
|-
|2000||Atlético Paranaense
Clube Atlético Paranaense
Clube Atlético Paranaense is a Brazilian football team from Curitiba in Paraná, founded on March 26, 1924. The club won the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A in 2001.-History:...
||Série A
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
The Campeonato Brasileiro de Clubes da Série A , popularly known as the Brasileirão , is a professional football league at the top of the Brazilian football league system held annually since 1959. Contested by twenty clubs, it operates a system of promotion and relegation with the Série B...
||20||0||||||||||20||0
|-
|2001||América-MG||Série A
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
The Campeonato Brasileiro de Clubes da Série A , popularly known as the Brasileirão , is a professional football league at the top of the Brazilian football league system held annually since 1959. Contested by twenty clubs, it operates a system of promotion and relegation with the Série B...
||6||0||||||||||6||0
94||17||||||||||94||17
47||11||||||||||47||11
2||3||||||||||2||3
57||6||||||||||57||6
95||24||||||||||95||24
56||11||4||1||6||3||66||15
351||72||4||1||6||3||361||76
|}
International career statistics
|-|1986||5||0
|-
|1987||5||0
|-
|1988||0||0
|-
|1989||16||1
|-
|1990||6||0
|-
|1991||0||0
|-
|1992||2||0
|-
!Total||34||1
|}