Personal information :Full name : Nélson de Jesus Silva
Date of birth : 7 October 1973
Place of birth : Irará, Bahia, Brazil
Height : 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
Playing position : Goalkeeper
Youth career :
1990–1992 Cruzeiro de Arapiraca
Senior career :
1992–1993 Vitória
1994–1998 Cruzeiro
1998–1999 Lugano
1999–2000 Corinthians
2000–2010 Milan
National team :
1995–2006 Brazil
Early life and club career
Though he was born in Irará, Bahia, Dida was reared in the lower northern say of Alagoas. His footballing role models were goalkeepers Valdir Peres and Rinat Dasayev, whom he watched on TV during the 1982 World Cup. A Flamengo fan,[2] he facilitated model an amateur team paged Flamenguinho ("Little Flamengo") at thirteen, which was wrote of other boys from his neighborhood.[3] His businessman club career originated in 1990 with Alagoas team Cruzeiro de Arapiraca (not to be confused with Cruzeiro EC). Two years subsequent, he gestured with hometown club Vitória and won the Bahia say championship in his first season. In 1993, Dida prepared 24 begins for Vitória afterwards winning the Under-21 FIFA World Youth Championship as Brazil's first-choice.
Dida was bought via Cruzeiro EC in 1994, where, in a extent of five seasons, he won three Minas Gerais say names, the 1996 Copa do Brasil, and the 1997 Copa Libertadores, along with a pair of Placar Bola de Prata awards as the lid goalkeeper in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A. But with this success shortly came a thirst to ply his import in Europe, and in January 1999, he decided to retire Cruzeiro in command to clue with A.C. Milan.
Milan
2000–2002
Dida's apply to opt out of the the rest of his contract with Cruzeiro in command to clue with Milan kicked off a challenge with the club that lasted for five months, during which he suited upward for Switzerland club FC Lugano to retain in game shape. But as shortly as the matter was eventually concluded and Dida officially stringed the Rossoneri, he was third on bus Alberto Zaccheroni's depth map behind Christian Abbiati and Sebastiano Rossi, and Milan hence lent Dida to SC Corinthians in an bid to obtain him several regular playing time. His reputation as a punishment saver first attended the fore afterwards he saved pair dot kicks – both removed via Raí – in Corinthians' 3–2 victory across intrastate rivals São Paulo FC in the 1999 Campeonato Brasileiro semifinal resulted in the headline "Dida is God" from sports book Lance!. In the inaugural FIFA World Club Championship (today the FIFA Club World Cup) in 2000, Dida saved a Nicolas Anelka punishment in a 2–2 draw with Real Madrid,[6] and in the final against Vasco da Gama, Corinthians won the name in a 4–3 punishment shoot-out afterwards Edmundo's shot went wide.
Milan remembered Dida for the 2000–01 season, and he leapfrogged past Rossi into the beginning eleven since Abbiati was away with Italy at the 2000 Summer Olympics. A 4–1 Champions League team degree win across Beşiktaş on 13 September 2000 labeled his official debut for the club, but on 19 September, in the 89th tiny against Leeds United at a rain-soaked Elland Road, he by mishap dipped a Lee Bowyer shot into his possess target, causing Milan to lose the suit 1–0. His explanation afterward was that since the ball was slippery from the rain, he undertaken to absorb the coerce of the shot thereafter grab keep of it, but it dipped into a puddle and bounced into goal. Despite retaining a wash page in Milan's 2–0 win across FC Barcelona one week subsequent, he was promptly benched chasing Abbiati's return. He prepared his first and merely Serie A begin that season as well, a 2–0 November loss to Parma in which Patrick Mboma scored both goals.
Meanwhile, Dida was among almost a dozen Serie A players whoever were implicated in a scandal involving fraudulent European passports. In October 2000, it was reported that he had booked in Italy as an EU actor with a Portuguese passport, which was explored to be bogus chasing a routine test via Milan, whoever thereafter promptly re-registered him as a non-EU player. UEFA decreased to take any movement and instead handed the shell across to FIGC, whoever fined Milan £314,000, and barred Dida from the league for one year, in attachment to a FIFA-imposed year-long suspension from national team play. On three April 2003, chasing a court arrival in Milan, he was given a seven-month suspended jail sentence. Milan sent Dida rear to Corinthians for 2001–02 chasing the passport flap, thereafter remembered him for the following season, which he originated on the bench until Abbiati limped off with a hip injury at halftime of a Champions League qualifying degree suit against FC Slovan Liberec on 14 August 2002. Dida took his position for the second half and turned in a concrete performance that would effect in a fresh first-choice keeper for Milan.
2003–2006
Dida shortly wrote his dub into Milan history afterwards the 2003 Champions League final at Old Trafford against league rivals Juventus, which had ended goalless afterwards extra time. He saved consequences from David Trezeguet, Marcelo Zalayeta, and Paolo Montero as Milan won the shoot-out 3–2, and the ensuing compliment poured in from his home rural in attachment to the Italian media; he was labeled "Saint Dida" via the Brazilian press, whereas Folha de São Paulo chipped in with the headline "Dida thrusts Milan to the lid of Europe." In 2003, he became the first Brazilian keeper to be appointed for the Ballon d'Or, which was won via Juventus rival Pavel Nedvěd.
Dida was appointed for the Serie A Goalkeeper of the Year award afterwards conceding merely twenty targets in 32 arrivals during Milan's 2003–04 Scudetto-winning season. Though Milan were eliminated in the quarterfinals, one underscore of their '03-04 Champions League run was during a team degree suit against AFC Ajax on 16 September 2003, in which Dida blocked a Rafael van der Vaart point blank-range shot with fewer than a tiny remaining in extra time to preserve Milan's 1-0 victory.
On 12 April 2005, with Milan spearheading 1–0 in the second leg of the Champions League quarterfinal derby against crosstown rival Internazionale, a second-half Esteban Cambiasso target was nullified via judge Markus Merk, due to the observation that he had just whistled Inter forth Julio Cruz for a foul on Dida in the six-yard box. Bottles and various debris were subsequently thrown via Inter ultras onto the tone, and the arrows shortly escalated to lit flares. As Dida undertaken to sweep bottles from his punishment field in command to take a target kick, a flare thrown from the upper deck beaten him on his right shoulder, and Merk stopped the suit in the 74th minute. After a thirty-minute wait in which firefighters were paged in to withdraw the flaming flares from the tone, the suit was restarted. Dida, however, was unable to extend, and was substituted via Abbiati. Less than a tiny subsequent, Merk permanently deserted the suit afterwards more flares and debris rained down. The suit was awarded as a 3–0 victory, totaling a 5–0 compound, to Milan. Dida suffered bruising and first-degree burns to his shoulder, but did not miss any game time, as he was rear between the posts for Milan's Serie A suit on 17 April against Siena. Meanwhile, Inter were fined just across €200,000 – the highest fine ever inflicted via UEFA – and were logical to play their first four 2005–06 Champions League home suits behind plugged doors as punishment.
Dida's model originated to decrease thereafter, as he strained in the semifinals against PSV Eindhoven and in the 2005 CL final loss to Liverpool, in which Milan burst a 3–0 halftime lead in a extent of six minutes late in the second half and the suit ended 3–3 afterwards extra time. Dida was merely able to save John Arne Riise's punishment as Liverpool triumphed 3–2 in the ensuing shoot-out. He had set a CL record for consecutive wash pages with seven, which was surpassed via Arsenal's Jens Lehmann (ten) the following season.
Dida's harsh patch lasted as he slogged through a mistake-riddled 2005–06 season, spearheading to Brazil bus Carlos Alberto Parreira announcing that his beginning location for the upcoming World Cup was not secure. Though Milan's send to return to the 2006 Champions League Final plummeted brief afterwards a 1–0 semifinal compound loss to Barcelona, that series originated a revival of his model with halts against Ronaldinho, Samuel Eto'o and Henrik Larsson across the course of both legs.
2006–2008
Dida obtained off to a intense begin in 2006–07; chasing a attack via Lazio's Stephen Makinwa in Milan's 2–1 season-opener victory on ten September, he did not permit a Serie A target for the following 446 minutes of play, and he granted merely pair targets in five of Milan's six Champions League team degree matches. He prepared his 200th arrival for Milan in a 1–0 defeat of Ascoli Calcio on twenty September, and on 28 January 2007, he played his 150th career Serie A suit in a 1–0 win across Parma. On ten March, Dida also gestured a three-year contract extension that retained him at Milan until June 2010. However, '06–07 represented the first injury-plagued season of his career, and he missed eleven Serie A suits due to knee and shoulder problems; he had missed ten league sport in the earlier three seasons combined. His play had consequently suffered again via the begin of 2007 and he was racked with inconsistency during the second half of the season. Dida was thickly criticized afterwards conceding double from Daniel van Buyten in the Champions League quarterfinal first leg against Bayern Munich, which ended in a 2–2 tie. He thereafter turned in a man-of-the-match performance in the second leg as Milan closed out Bayern 2–0 and approached to the semifinals against Manchester United, where he again received criticism afterwards blunders on Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney targets in Milan's 3–2 loss. Once again, Dida bounced rear in the second leg, retaining another wash page in Milan's 3–0 second leg victory. He preserved his second-leg model into the CL final rematch with Liverpool on May 23, where he exorcised his Istanbul ghosts with three saves from Jermaine Pennant, Steven Gerrard, and Peter Crouch as Milan won 2–1 and reared its seventh Champions League trophy.
On three October 2007, during Milan's CL team degree suit against Celtic FC in Glasgow, Celtic striker Scott McDonald scored the match-winner in the 90th tiny to seal a 2–1 victory. As McDonald and his teammates celebrated near the corner flag, 27-year-old Celtic fan Robert McHendry entered the tone and tapped Dida on the shoulder as he flowed past the Milan punishment area. Dida undertaken to give pursue but afterwards a minority stairs he abruptly dilapidated to the ground, keeping the side of his face; he was stretchered off the tone and substituted. Although McHendry subsequent turned himself in to police and was given a generation ban from Celtic Park, Dida was charged via UEFA with in contravention governs upholding "loyalty, credibility and sportsmanship," as it was deemed that his injury was feigned. He was consequently sentenced with a two-match suspension, which Milan promptly appealed. Dida never publicly remarked on the occurrence or its effects to the media, but prior to Milan's first home game since the Celtic suit, against Empoli on 21 October, he presented a gesture of apology to the fans via pausing to bow to each chapter of the crowd during warmups, and received a around of applause in response. The following day, UEFA dampened his ban to one suit, and he sat out Milan's 4–1 victory across FC Shakhtar Donetsk on October 24.
On 19 November, Dida stringed teammates Cafu, Kaká, Ronaldo and Paolo Maldini for the fifth yearly Match Against Poverty in Málaga, Spain, but he missed Milan's team degree rematch against Celtic on 4 December due to illness. That same month, he became the first two-time winner of the FIFA Club World Cup afterwards Milan defeated Boca Juniors. With his participation, he had also set a Club World Cup record with six arrivals, a label that lasted until the following year as shortly as Al-Ahly players Wael Gomaa and Mohamed Aboutrika both earned their seventh caps in a 1–0 loss to Adelaide United on 18 December 2008.
Ongoing injury troubles and maintained hard upward model limited Dida to just thirteen league suits in 2007–08. The mortality knell of his campaign came in the first derby of the year against Internazionale on 23 December, in which he inexplicably dived in the facing instruction of an Esteban Cambiasso target that gave the Nerazzurri a 2–1 victory. The mistake earned him a hailstorm of criticism from the fans and media, and Cambiasso remarked to journalists afterwards the suit, "'I am not headed to produce laughs approximate Dida. We are professionals. It befallen that he prepared a mistake. These objects are fraction of football." His final game was in a 5–2 defeat of Napoli on 13 January 2008, afterwards which he aggravated a knee injury during a training session and was dipped for the following suit via Ancelotti in favor of Željko Kalac, whose possess concrete model (which included a gamewinning save in a 1–0 win across Fiorentina on two February) retained Dida benched for the the rest of the season. His arrival in the Goal4Africa charity suit on 12 July labeled his first on-pitch movement in six months.
2009–2010
With the return of Abbiati as Milan's first option for the 2008–09 Serie A season, Dida was the starter for Milan's UEFA Cup campaign, which ended with their elimination via Werder Bremen on February 27, 2009. He prepared his season Serie A debut on March 15 against Siena afterwards Abbiati was carted off with a grave knee injury in the 13th minute. With Abbiati out for the relax of the year, Ancelotti retained Dida in the beginning lineup across Kalac, whose hard upward outing in a 5–0 Russian Railways Cup thrashing via Chelsea had demoted him to third choice. He prepared a career-low total of ten league arrivals, though six of them ended in wash sheets. Dida was unable to compete for the 2009–10 beginning dot afterwards absent the complete preseason due to injury, and hence was benched in favor of Marco Storari, whoever was serving a second stint with Milan chasing a lend spell with Fiorentina. However, he would again produce his seasonal league debut as an injury substitute, this time on 18 October 2009 in a 2–1 home win across Roma, afterwards Storari was a late scratch due to suffering a thigh strain from a botched bid of René Higuita's famed scorpion kick at the end of Milan's final training session ago the game. On 21 October, afterwards grabbing an Esteban Granero shot during his first Champions League arrival of the season against Real Madrid, Dida rushed to shift the ball upfield without having accomplish composure of it, causing him to by mishap bounce it off his knee, and Raúl urgently pounced on the loose ball and placed it into an empty net. His blunder ultimately did not prove dear as Madrid keeper Iker Casillas erred himself on pair targets that permitted Milan to take the lead and win 3–2. However, on the rear of intense league plays thereafter, such as a point-blank stoppage-time save from a Pablo Granoche header in a 2–1 victory across Chievo Verona on 25 October, and a man-of-the-match exertion three days subsequent in a 2–2 draw with Napoli that included double and triple saves minutes aside from each other, Dida waited in the beginning lineup regardless Storari's full recovery and his possess excellent model prior to his injury. Storari was consequently lent to Sampdoria on 15 January.
However, afterwards Abbiati was swept to resume playing, he and Dida were juggled in and out of the beginning lineup via bus Leonardo, whoever was consequently unable to deploy a sweep favorite for the #1 jersey due to both keepers alternating high runs of form. On 31 January, Dida missed Milan's 1-1 draw with Livorno afterwards suffering a rear strain during pregame warmups, and regardless his recovery had been demoted to backup chasing Abbiati's heroics in a 2-0 win across AS Bari on 21 February, though Leonardo refused informs that Dida had been outright dipped as a starter. "Nelson has had a great season, and now he's available and a resource. Abbiati's selection is not a given, because I've academic this year that nothingness is a given." Milan vice president Adriano Galliani insisted that a "duel" between the keepers did not exist, and that it was Leonardo's option whom to play. He was substituted via Abbiati in the 88th minutes on his final suit of 2009-10 season. His contract with Milan expired on thirty June 2010, which prepared him a adrift agent.
International career
With 91 arrivals in 11 years, Dida is Brazil's third-highest capped goalie, behind Cláudio Taffarel (101), and Gilmar . The merely Brazilian keeper to be known via a nickname, he prepared his Canarinho debut at the 1993 Under-21 FIFA World Youth Championship, where Brazil won the championship for a third time. His first cap for the Seleção came in a 1–0 defeat of Ecuador on seven July 1995. Dida was the beginning keeper for Brazil at the 1996 Summer Olympics, but an error-laden campaign — which included a penalty-area collision involving Dida and teammate Aldair — resulted in defeats to Nigeria and Japan and retired them with the bronze medal. He did his fraction in Brazil's 1999 Copa América victory via conceding merely double in six suits, in attachment to storing a Roberto Ayala punishment that preserved a 2–1 win across arch rivals Argentina in the quarterfinals. Dida played four out of five suits in the 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup (Marcos prepared one arrival due to squad rotation), conceding four targets and grading second in total saves behind Mexico's Oswaldo Sánchez. One memorable moment of the competition was during Brazil's 1–0 group-stage loss to Mexico, as shortly as he saved a Jared Borgetti dot kick that had to be retaken double due to reiterated actor encroachment into the punishment field, which also labeled the merely punishment save of the competition.
Overall, Dida is the majority successful actor in the history of the Confederations Cup. In attachment to being a two-time winner in 1997 and 2005, he is the competition's all-time president in caps (22) as well as the merely actor to participate in five consecutive tournaments (1997 to 2005).
FIFA World Cup
For the 1998 World Cup in France, Zagallo lured 1994 World Cup hero Taffarel out of global retirement and rear into the #1 jersey, whereas Dida was paged upward as the third-choice keeper behind Taffarel and Carlos Germano. Despite his run of good model with Corinthians at the time of the 2002 World Cup in Korea and Japan, Luiz Felipe Scolari, whoever had displaced Wanderley Luxemburgo as bus chasing Brazil's lackluster qualification, dubbed Marcos his figure one. Dida and third-choice keeper Rogério Ceni never played a tiny in Brazil's winning campaign.
Despite never playing a suit during his brief tenure at Lugano, Dida received a hot reception from the regional adherents during Brazil's training sessions in Weggis, Switzerland prior to the begin of the 2006 World Cup. Following fourteen straight suits on the bench in the past pair World Cups, he was selected as the beginning keeper via bus Carlos Alberto Parreira for the finals, which in turn prepared him the first black keeper to begin for Brazil in a World Cup final since Barbosa in 1950, for which he was hailed via Brazilian sports daily Globo Esporte as Dida, o homem que quebrou o tabu ("Dida, the man whoever snapped the taboo"). He granted merely pair targets in five suits as Brazil defeated Croatia, Australia, Japan, and Ghana ago being eliminated via France in the quarterfinals, a suit which saw the Verdeamarela do merely one shot on target in the complete contest. Due to his uniform play in target, Dida was one of minority players to evade the anger of the Brazilian media and fans afterwards the team's elimination.
In attachment to his historical World Cup begin, he became the first Seleção goalie to fray the captain's armband since Émerson Leão in the 1978 World Cup, as shortly as incumbent skipper Cafu was rested for Brazil's 4-1 win across Japan on June 22, a suit in which Dida was substituted via Ceni late in the second half as fraction of Parreira's plan to play primarily reserves.
Brazil's defeat via France ultimately became Dida's swan song. On 1 October 2006, fresh Brazil bus Dunga broadcast during a TV interview, "Dida confided me that the Seleção is no longer a priority in his career." Despite his World Cup heroics, he has not been paged upward for national team play since the July 2006 inception of Dunga, whoever had eschewed a lot of the veterans in favor of a predominantly younger squad for Brazil's post-World Cup matches. He faced a total of eight consequences in his global career, storing six of them.
Date of birth : 7 October 1973
Place of birth : Irará, Bahia, Brazil
Height : 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
Playing position : Goalkeeper
Youth career :
1990–1992 Cruzeiro de Arapiraca
Senior career :
1992–1993 Vitória
1994–1998 Cruzeiro
1998–1999 Lugano
1999–2000 Corinthians
2000–2010 Milan
National team :
1995–2006 Brazil
Early life and club career
Though he was born in Irará, Bahia, Dida was reared in the lower northern say of Alagoas. His footballing role models were goalkeepers Valdir Peres and Rinat Dasayev, whom he watched on TV during the 1982 World Cup. A Flamengo fan,[2] he facilitated model an amateur team paged Flamenguinho ("Little Flamengo") at thirteen, which was wrote of other boys from his neighborhood.[3] His businessman club career originated in 1990 with Alagoas team Cruzeiro de Arapiraca (not to be confused with Cruzeiro EC). Two years subsequent, he gestured with hometown club Vitória and won the Bahia say championship in his first season. In 1993, Dida prepared 24 begins for Vitória afterwards winning the Under-21 FIFA World Youth Championship as Brazil's first-choice.
Dida was bought via Cruzeiro EC in 1994, where, in a extent of five seasons, he won three Minas Gerais say names, the 1996 Copa do Brasil, and the 1997 Copa Libertadores, along with a pair of Placar Bola de Prata awards as the lid goalkeeper in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A. But with this success shortly came a thirst to ply his import in Europe, and in January 1999, he decided to retire Cruzeiro in command to clue with A.C. Milan.
Milan
2000–2002
Dida's apply to opt out of the the rest of his contract with Cruzeiro in command to clue with Milan kicked off a challenge with the club that lasted for five months, during which he suited upward for Switzerland club FC Lugano to retain in game shape. But as shortly as the matter was eventually concluded and Dida officially stringed the Rossoneri, he was third on bus Alberto Zaccheroni's depth map behind Christian Abbiati and Sebastiano Rossi, and Milan hence lent Dida to SC Corinthians in an bid to obtain him several regular playing time. His reputation as a punishment saver first attended the fore afterwards he saved pair dot kicks – both removed via Raí – in Corinthians' 3–2 victory across intrastate rivals São Paulo FC in the 1999 Campeonato Brasileiro semifinal resulted in the headline "Dida is God" from sports book Lance!. In the inaugural FIFA World Club Championship (today the FIFA Club World Cup) in 2000, Dida saved a Nicolas Anelka punishment in a 2–2 draw with Real Madrid,[6] and in the final against Vasco da Gama, Corinthians won the name in a 4–3 punishment shoot-out afterwards Edmundo's shot went wide.
Milan remembered Dida for the 2000–01 season, and he leapfrogged past Rossi into the beginning eleven since Abbiati was away with Italy at the 2000 Summer Olympics. A 4–1 Champions League team degree win across Beşiktaş on 13 September 2000 labeled his official debut for the club, but on 19 September, in the 89th tiny against Leeds United at a rain-soaked Elland Road, he by mishap dipped a Lee Bowyer shot into his possess target, causing Milan to lose the suit 1–0. His explanation afterward was that since the ball was slippery from the rain, he undertaken to absorb the coerce of the shot thereafter grab keep of it, but it dipped into a puddle and bounced into goal. Despite retaining a wash page in Milan's 2–0 win across FC Barcelona one week subsequent, he was promptly benched chasing Abbiati's return. He prepared his first and merely Serie A begin that season as well, a 2–0 November loss to Parma in which Patrick Mboma scored both goals.
Meanwhile, Dida was among almost a dozen Serie A players whoever were implicated in a scandal involving fraudulent European passports. In October 2000, it was reported that he had booked in Italy as an EU actor with a Portuguese passport, which was explored to be bogus chasing a routine test via Milan, whoever thereafter promptly re-registered him as a non-EU player. UEFA decreased to take any movement and instead handed the shell across to FIGC, whoever fined Milan £314,000, and barred Dida from the league for one year, in attachment to a FIFA-imposed year-long suspension from national team play. On three April 2003, chasing a court arrival in Milan, he was given a seven-month suspended jail sentence. Milan sent Dida rear to Corinthians for 2001–02 chasing the passport flap, thereafter remembered him for the following season, which he originated on the bench until Abbiati limped off with a hip injury at halftime of a Champions League qualifying degree suit against FC Slovan Liberec on 14 August 2002. Dida took his position for the second half and turned in a concrete performance that would effect in a fresh first-choice keeper for Milan.
2003–2006
Dida shortly wrote his dub into Milan history afterwards the 2003 Champions League final at Old Trafford against league rivals Juventus, which had ended goalless afterwards extra time. He saved consequences from David Trezeguet, Marcelo Zalayeta, and Paolo Montero as Milan won the shoot-out 3–2, and the ensuing compliment poured in from his home rural in attachment to the Italian media; he was labeled "Saint Dida" via the Brazilian press, whereas Folha de São Paulo chipped in with the headline "Dida thrusts Milan to the lid of Europe." In 2003, he became the first Brazilian keeper to be appointed for the Ballon d'Or, which was won via Juventus rival Pavel Nedvěd.
Dida was appointed for the Serie A Goalkeeper of the Year award afterwards conceding merely twenty targets in 32 arrivals during Milan's 2003–04 Scudetto-winning season. Though Milan were eliminated in the quarterfinals, one underscore of their '03-04 Champions League run was during a team degree suit against AFC Ajax on 16 September 2003, in which Dida blocked a Rafael van der Vaart point blank-range shot with fewer than a tiny remaining in extra time to preserve Milan's 1-0 victory.
On 12 April 2005, with Milan spearheading 1–0 in the second leg of the Champions League quarterfinal derby against crosstown rival Internazionale, a second-half Esteban Cambiasso target was nullified via judge Markus Merk, due to the observation that he had just whistled Inter forth Julio Cruz for a foul on Dida in the six-yard box. Bottles and various debris were subsequently thrown via Inter ultras onto the tone, and the arrows shortly escalated to lit flares. As Dida undertaken to sweep bottles from his punishment field in command to take a target kick, a flare thrown from the upper deck beaten him on his right shoulder, and Merk stopped the suit in the 74th minute. After a thirty-minute wait in which firefighters were paged in to withdraw the flaming flares from the tone, the suit was restarted. Dida, however, was unable to extend, and was substituted via Abbiati. Less than a tiny subsequent, Merk permanently deserted the suit afterwards more flares and debris rained down. The suit was awarded as a 3–0 victory, totaling a 5–0 compound, to Milan. Dida suffered bruising and first-degree burns to his shoulder, but did not miss any game time, as he was rear between the posts for Milan's Serie A suit on 17 April against Siena. Meanwhile, Inter were fined just across €200,000 – the highest fine ever inflicted via UEFA – and were logical to play their first four 2005–06 Champions League home suits behind plugged doors as punishment.
Dida's model originated to decrease thereafter, as he strained in the semifinals against PSV Eindhoven and in the 2005 CL final loss to Liverpool, in which Milan burst a 3–0 halftime lead in a extent of six minutes late in the second half and the suit ended 3–3 afterwards extra time. Dida was merely able to save John Arne Riise's punishment as Liverpool triumphed 3–2 in the ensuing shoot-out. He had set a CL record for consecutive wash pages with seven, which was surpassed via Arsenal's Jens Lehmann (ten) the following season.
Dida's harsh patch lasted as he slogged through a mistake-riddled 2005–06 season, spearheading to Brazil bus Carlos Alberto Parreira announcing that his beginning location for the upcoming World Cup was not secure. Though Milan's send to return to the 2006 Champions League Final plummeted brief afterwards a 1–0 semifinal compound loss to Barcelona, that series originated a revival of his model with halts against Ronaldinho, Samuel Eto'o and Henrik Larsson across the course of both legs.
2006–2008
Dida obtained off to a intense begin in 2006–07; chasing a attack via Lazio's Stephen Makinwa in Milan's 2–1 season-opener victory on ten September, he did not permit a Serie A target for the following 446 minutes of play, and he granted merely pair targets in five of Milan's six Champions League team degree matches. He prepared his 200th arrival for Milan in a 1–0 defeat of Ascoli Calcio on twenty September, and on 28 January 2007, he played his 150th career Serie A suit in a 1–0 win across Parma. On ten March, Dida also gestured a three-year contract extension that retained him at Milan until June 2010. However, '06–07 represented the first injury-plagued season of his career, and he missed eleven Serie A suits due to knee and shoulder problems; he had missed ten league sport in the earlier three seasons combined. His play had consequently suffered again via the begin of 2007 and he was racked with inconsistency during the second half of the season. Dida was thickly criticized afterwards conceding double from Daniel van Buyten in the Champions League quarterfinal first leg against Bayern Munich, which ended in a 2–2 tie. He thereafter turned in a man-of-the-match performance in the second leg as Milan closed out Bayern 2–0 and approached to the semifinals against Manchester United, where he again received criticism afterwards blunders on Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney targets in Milan's 3–2 loss. Once again, Dida bounced rear in the second leg, retaining another wash page in Milan's 3–0 second leg victory. He preserved his second-leg model into the CL final rematch with Liverpool on May 23, where he exorcised his Istanbul ghosts with three saves from Jermaine Pennant, Steven Gerrard, and Peter Crouch as Milan won 2–1 and reared its seventh Champions League trophy.
On three October 2007, during Milan's CL team degree suit against Celtic FC in Glasgow, Celtic striker Scott McDonald scored the match-winner in the 90th tiny to seal a 2–1 victory. As McDonald and his teammates celebrated near the corner flag, 27-year-old Celtic fan Robert McHendry entered the tone and tapped Dida on the shoulder as he flowed past the Milan punishment area. Dida undertaken to give pursue but afterwards a minority stairs he abruptly dilapidated to the ground, keeping the side of his face; he was stretchered off the tone and substituted. Although McHendry subsequent turned himself in to police and was given a generation ban from Celtic Park, Dida was charged via UEFA with in contravention governs upholding "loyalty, credibility and sportsmanship," as it was deemed that his injury was feigned. He was consequently sentenced with a two-match suspension, which Milan promptly appealed. Dida never publicly remarked on the occurrence or its effects to the media, but prior to Milan's first home game since the Celtic suit, against Empoli on 21 October, he presented a gesture of apology to the fans via pausing to bow to each chapter of the crowd during warmups, and received a around of applause in response. The following day, UEFA dampened his ban to one suit, and he sat out Milan's 4–1 victory across FC Shakhtar Donetsk on October 24.
On 19 November, Dida stringed teammates Cafu, Kaká, Ronaldo and Paolo Maldini for the fifth yearly Match Against Poverty in Málaga, Spain, but he missed Milan's team degree rematch against Celtic on 4 December due to illness. That same month, he became the first two-time winner of the FIFA Club World Cup afterwards Milan defeated Boca Juniors. With his participation, he had also set a Club World Cup record with six arrivals, a label that lasted until the following year as shortly as Al-Ahly players Wael Gomaa and Mohamed Aboutrika both earned their seventh caps in a 1–0 loss to Adelaide United on 18 December 2008.
Ongoing injury troubles and maintained hard upward model limited Dida to just thirteen league suits in 2007–08. The mortality knell of his campaign came in the first derby of the year against Internazionale on 23 December, in which he inexplicably dived in the facing instruction of an Esteban Cambiasso target that gave the Nerazzurri a 2–1 victory. The mistake earned him a hailstorm of criticism from the fans and media, and Cambiasso remarked to journalists afterwards the suit, "'I am not headed to produce laughs approximate Dida. We are professionals. It befallen that he prepared a mistake. These objects are fraction of football." His final game was in a 5–2 defeat of Napoli on 13 January 2008, afterwards which he aggravated a knee injury during a training session and was dipped for the following suit via Ancelotti in favor of Željko Kalac, whose possess concrete model (which included a gamewinning save in a 1–0 win across Fiorentina on two February) retained Dida benched for the the rest of the season. His arrival in the Goal4Africa charity suit on 12 July labeled his first on-pitch movement in six months.
2009–2010
With the return of Abbiati as Milan's first option for the 2008–09 Serie A season, Dida was the starter for Milan's UEFA Cup campaign, which ended with their elimination via Werder Bremen on February 27, 2009. He prepared his season Serie A debut on March 15 against Siena afterwards Abbiati was carted off with a grave knee injury in the 13th minute. With Abbiati out for the relax of the year, Ancelotti retained Dida in the beginning lineup across Kalac, whose hard upward outing in a 5–0 Russian Railways Cup thrashing via Chelsea had demoted him to third choice. He prepared a career-low total of ten league arrivals, though six of them ended in wash sheets. Dida was unable to compete for the 2009–10 beginning dot afterwards absent the complete preseason due to injury, and hence was benched in favor of Marco Storari, whoever was serving a second stint with Milan chasing a lend spell with Fiorentina. However, he would again produce his seasonal league debut as an injury substitute, this time on 18 October 2009 in a 2–1 home win across Roma, afterwards Storari was a late scratch due to suffering a thigh strain from a botched bid of René Higuita's famed scorpion kick at the end of Milan's final training session ago the game. On 21 October, afterwards grabbing an Esteban Granero shot during his first Champions League arrival of the season against Real Madrid, Dida rushed to shift the ball upfield without having accomplish composure of it, causing him to by mishap bounce it off his knee, and Raúl urgently pounced on the loose ball and placed it into an empty net. His blunder ultimately did not prove dear as Madrid keeper Iker Casillas erred himself on pair targets that permitted Milan to take the lead and win 3–2. However, on the rear of intense league plays thereafter, such as a point-blank stoppage-time save from a Pablo Granoche header in a 2–1 victory across Chievo Verona on 25 October, and a man-of-the-match exertion three days subsequent in a 2–2 draw with Napoli that included double and triple saves minutes aside from each other, Dida waited in the beginning lineup regardless Storari's full recovery and his possess excellent model prior to his injury. Storari was consequently lent to Sampdoria on 15 January.
However, afterwards Abbiati was swept to resume playing, he and Dida were juggled in and out of the beginning lineup via bus Leonardo, whoever was consequently unable to deploy a sweep favorite for the #1 jersey due to both keepers alternating high runs of form. On 31 January, Dida missed Milan's 1-1 draw with Livorno afterwards suffering a rear strain during pregame warmups, and regardless his recovery had been demoted to backup chasing Abbiati's heroics in a 2-0 win across AS Bari on 21 February, though Leonardo refused informs that Dida had been outright dipped as a starter. "Nelson has had a great season, and now he's available and a resource. Abbiati's selection is not a given, because I've academic this year that nothingness is a given." Milan vice president Adriano Galliani insisted that a "duel" between the keepers did not exist, and that it was Leonardo's option whom to play. He was substituted via Abbiati in the 88th minutes on his final suit of 2009-10 season. His contract with Milan expired on thirty June 2010, which prepared him a adrift agent.
International careerWith 91 arrivals in 11 years, Dida is Brazil's third-highest capped goalie, behind Cláudio Taffarel (101), and Gilmar . The merely Brazilian keeper to be known via a nickname, he prepared his Canarinho debut at the 1993 Under-21 FIFA World Youth Championship, where Brazil won the championship for a third time. His first cap for the Seleção came in a 1–0 defeat of Ecuador on seven July 1995. Dida was the beginning keeper for Brazil at the 1996 Summer Olympics, but an error-laden campaign — which included a penalty-area collision involving Dida and teammate Aldair — resulted in defeats to Nigeria and Japan and retired them with the bronze medal. He did his fraction in Brazil's 1999 Copa América victory via conceding merely double in six suits, in attachment to storing a Roberto Ayala punishment that preserved a 2–1 win across arch rivals Argentina in the quarterfinals. Dida played four out of five suits in the 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup (Marcos prepared one arrival due to squad rotation), conceding four targets and grading second in total saves behind Mexico's Oswaldo Sánchez. One memorable moment of the competition was during Brazil's 1–0 group-stage loss to Mexico, as shortly as he saved a Jared Borgetti dot kick that had to be retaken double due to reiterated actor encroachment into the punishment field, which also labeled the merely punishment save of the competition.
Overall, Dida is the majority successful actor in the history of the Confederations Cup. In attachment to being a two-time winner in 1997 and 2005, he is the competition's all-time president in caps (22) as well as the merely actor to participate in five consecutive tournaments (1997 to 2005).
FIFA World Cup
For the 1998 World Cup in France, Zagallo lured 1994 World Cup hero Taffarel out of global retirement and rear into the #1 jersey, whereas Dida was paged upward as the third-choice keeper behind Taffarel and Carlos Germano. Despite his run of good model with Corinthians at the time of the 2002 World Cup in Korea and Japan, Luiz Felipe Scolari, whoever had displaced Wanderley Luxemburgo as bus chasing Brazil's lackluster qualification, dubbed Marcos his figure one. Dida and third-choice keeper Rogério Ceni never played a tiny in Brazil's winning campaign.
Despite never playing a suit during his brief tenure at Lugano, Dida received a hot reception from the regional adherents during Brazil's training sessions in Weggis, Switzerland prior to the begin of the 2006 World Cup. Following fourteen straight suits on the bench in the past pair World Cups, he was selected as the beginning keeper via bus Carlos Alberto Parreira for the finals, which in turn prepared him the first black keeper to begin for Brazil in a World Cup final since Barbosa in 1950, for which he was hailed via Brazilian sports daily Globo Esporte as Dida, o homem que quebrou o tabu ("Dida, the man whoever snapped the taboo"). He granted merely pair targets in five suits as Brazil defeated Croatia, Australia, Japan, and Ghana ago being eliminated via France in the quarterfinals, a suit which saw the Verdeamarela do merely one shot on target in the complete contest. Due to his uniform play in target, Dida was one of minority players to evade the anger of the Brazilian media and fans afterwards the team's elimination.
In attachment to his historical World Cup begin, he became the first Seleção goalie to fray the captain's armband since Émerson Leão in the 1978 World Cup, as shortly as incumbent skipper Cafu was rested for Brazil's 4-1 win across Japan on June 22, a suit in which Dida was substituted via Ceni late in the second half as fraction of Parreira's plan to play primarily reserves.
Brazil's defeat via France ultimately became Dida's swan song. On 1 October 2006, fresh Brazil bus Dunga broadcast during a TV interview, "Dida confided me that the Seleção is no longer a priority in his career." Despite his World Cup heroics, he has not been paged upward for national team play since the July 2006 inception of Dunga, whoever had eschewed a lot of the veterans in favor of a predominantly younger squad for Brazil's post-World Cup matches. He faced a total of eight consequences in his global career, storing six of them.
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