Dener (footballer, born 1971)

Dener Augusto de Sousa (2 April 1971 — 18 April 1994), known simply as Dener,^[1] was a Brazilian footballer who played as a forward.^[2] He played twice for the Brazil national team.

Dener

Personal information
Full name	Dener Augusto de Sousa
Date of birth	(1971-04-02)2 April 1971
Place of birth	São Paulo, Brazil
Date of death	18 April 1994(1994-04-18) (aged 23)
Place of death	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Height	1.71 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Youth career
1988	São Paulo
1988–1989	Portuguesa
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1989–1994	Portuguesa	106	(22)
1993	→ Grêmio (loan)	15	(4)
1994	→ Vasco da Gama (loan)	10	(3)
Total		131	(29)
International career
1991–1992	Brazil U23	9	(0)
1991–1994	Brazil	2	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Club career

Youth

Born in São Paulo, Dener started his career at São Paulo FC's youth squad, in 1988, but after just two months he moved to Portuguesa's youth squad. In 1991, playing for Portuguesa, he won the Copa São Paulo de Juniores, and was elected the competition's best player.^[3]

Professional

In 1989, he was promoted to Portuguesa's first team squad, where he stayed until 1993, playing 47 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A matches, and scoring seven goals.^[4] In 1993, Corinthians failed to sign him, and then he was loaned to Grêmio of Porto Alegre,^[3] where he won the Rio Grande do Sul State Championship,^[2] and played four Copa do Brasil matches in that year.^[4] In the following year he was loaned to Vasco of Rio de Janeiro, where he played two Copa do Brasil matches and scored a goal,^[4] and posthumously won the Rio de Janeiro State Championship.^[5]

International career

Dener played two matches for the Brazil national team, managed by Paulo Roberto Falcão. On March 27, 1991, he played against Argentina, and two months later, on May 28, he played against Bulgaria.^[2]

Death

On 18 April 1994, in Rio de Janeiro, Dener died in an accident when his Mitsubishi Eclipse crashed into a tree at Borges de Medeiros Avenue, in the Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas district. The car's driver was Dener's friend, Otto Gomes de Miranda, who lost both legs in the accident. Dener was strangled by the car's seat belt.^[3]

Career statistics

Club

^[6][4]

Club	Season	League			State League		Cup		Continental		Other		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Portuguesa	1989	Série A	1	0	0	0	—		—		—		1	0
	1990		2	0	14	0	—		—		—		16	0
	1991		18	1	16	2	—		—		—		34	3
	1992		12	1	29	13	—		—		—		41	14
	1993		14	5	—		—		—		—		14	5
	Total		47	7	59	15	—		—		—		106	22
Grêmio (loan)	1993	Série A	—		15	4	4	0	—		—		19	4
Vasco da Gama (loan)	1994	Série A	—		10	3	2	1	—		—		12	4
Career total			47	7	84	22	6	1	0	0	0	0	137	30

International

^[7]

Brazil
Year	Apps	Goals
1991	2	0
Total	2	0

Honours

Portuguesa

• Copa São Paulo de Futebol Júnior: 1991

Grêmio

• Campeonato Gaúcho: 1993

Vasco da Gama

• Campeonato Carioca: 1994

References

1. (in Portuguese) "Dener Augusto de Sousa" (in Portuguese). Brazilian Football Confederation. 16 November 2007. Retrieved 2 April 2008. ^{[dead link‍]}
2. "Dener". Sambafoot. 28 March 2006. Archived from the original on 2 April 2009. Retrieved 2 April 2008.
3. (in Portuguese) "Dener - O gênio dos dribles mágicos" (in Portuguese). Gazeta Esportiva. Archived from the original on 3 December 2007. Retrieved 2 April 2008.
4. "Dener - todos os jogos" (in Portuguese). Futpédia. Archived from the original on 6 December 2008. Retrieved 1 January 2009.
5. Enciclopédia do Futebol Brasileiro Lance Volume 1. Rio de Janeiro: Aretê Editorial S/A. 2001. p. 55. ISBN 85-88651-01-7.
6. "Dener" (in Brazilian Portuguese). Futebol 80. Archived from the original on 27 June 2020. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
7. "Dener". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 27 February 2021.

External links

• (in Portuguese) Dener profile at the Brazilian FA database^{[permanent dead link‍]}