Toninho
Encyclopedia
Toninho is a Portuguese
diminutive nickname
for Antônio or António, loosely equivalent to Little Tony in English
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It may can be refer to these Brazil
ian footballers
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It was also the nickname of
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
diminutive nickname
Nickname
A nickname is "a usually familiar or humorous but sometimes pointed or cruel name given to a person or place, as a supposedly appropriate replacement for or addition to the proper name.", or a name similar in origin and pronunciation from the original name....
for Antônio or António, loosely equivalent to Little Tony in English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
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It may can be refer to these 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 footballers
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...
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- Antônio Dias dos SantosAntônio Dias dos SantosAntônio Dias dos Santos, best known as Toninho was an association footballer in defender role....
(1948-1999), defender played at 1978 FIFA World Cup; - Antônio Benedito da SilvaAntônio Benedito da SilvaAntônio Benedito da Silva, nicknamed Toninho is a former Brazilian football player who played for Portuguesa , Guarani , Yomiuri , Shimizu S-Pulse , Urawa Red Diamonds and Vasco da Gama...
(born 1965), who played also in Japan with Shimizu Pulse; - Antônio Carlos CerezoToninho CerezoToninho Cerezo, real name Antônio Carlos Cerezo, is a former football player from Brazil.- Career :...
, alias Toninho Cerezo (born 1955), played at the FIFA World Cups of 1978 and 1982; - Antônio FerreiraToninho GuerreiroAntônio Ferreira, usually known as Toninho Guerreiro was a Brazilian international soccer player. He was born in Bauru and died in São Paulo....
, alias Toninho Guerreiro.
It was also the nickname of
- Antonio da Costa SantosAntonio da Costa SantosAntonio da Costa Santos was a Brazilian architect and politician affiliated to the Workers' Party .Toninho took office as Mayor of Campinas , on January 1, 2001. He was shot to death at 10:15 pm, September 10, 2001, as he was driving home alone from a shopping mall...
, mayor of CampinasCampinasCampinas 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....
, Brazil, murdered in office in 2001.