Roberto Dinamite

In this article, the surname is de Oliveira, not Oliveira.

Carlos Roberto de Oliveira (13 April 1954 – 8 January 2023), known as Roberto Dinamite, was a Brazilian footballer and politician. He was born in Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro state. With a career as centre forward spanning over twenty years, Roberto is Vasco da Gama's player with the most appearances and all-time top goalscorer, as well as the overall leading scorer in the Brazilian Série A and the Rio de Janeiro State Championship.^[1][2][3][4] At the national level, Roberto Dinamite played in the 1978 and 1982 FIFA World Cups and the 1972 Olympic Games. He was president of Vasco da Gama from 2008 to 2014.

Roberto Dinamite
Dinamite in 2008
President of Vasco da Gama
In office 2008–2014
Preceded by	Eurico Miranda
Succeeded by	Eurico Miranda
Personal details
Born	Carlos Roberto de Oliveira (1954-04-13)13 April 1954 Duque de Caxias, Brazil
Died	8 January 2023(2023-01-08) (aged 68) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Occupation	Footballer
Association football career Position(s) Striker Youth career 1969–1972 Vasco da Gama Senior career* Years Team Apps (Gls) 1971–1979 Vasco da Gama 355 (236) 1979–1980 Barcelona 11 (3) 1980–1993 Vasco da Gama 398 (239) 1989 → Portuguesa (loan) 17 (9) 1991 → Campo Grande (loan) 14 (0) Total 795 (487) International career 1975–1984 Brazil 38 (20) *Club domestic league appearances and goals

Club career

Roberto Dinamite was developed at Vasco da Gama youth squad. He is one of the most famous Vasco da Gama players, and is the club's greatest goal scorer. He scored 698 goals wearing the club's shirt and 864 goals in all his career. He played 1022 matches (768 official matches, and 254 friendly matches).

Dinamite was nicknamed Dinamite by the journalist Aparício Pires, of Jornal dos Sports newspaper, after scoring a spectacular goal in his debut for the professional team, on 25 November 1971, against Internacional, at Maracanã stadium.^[5] The journalist wrote in the newspaper that the Dynamite-Boy detonates at Maracanã.^[5]

He helped Vasco da Gama win the 1974 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A and the 1977 Campeonato Carioca before moving to Barcelona in 1979.^[4] After only scoring 3 goals at Barcelona, he returned back to Vasco da Gama and won four more Campeonato Carioca (1982, 1987, 1988, 1992)^[4]

In 1989 and 1990, he played for Portuguesa of São Paulo state, scoring 11 goals.^[5]

His last goal was scored on 26 October 1992, when, in Campeonato Carioca, Vasco da Gama beat Goytacaz 2–0 at São Januário Stadium.^[6]

Dinamite retired on 24 March 1993, when he was 39 years old. His last match was on that day, when Deportivo de La Coruña of Spain beat Vasco da Gama 2–0 at Maracanã stadium, in a friendly game in which Zico also played (for Vasco).^[6]

International career

Roberto Dinamite earned 47 caps with the Brazil national team, between September 1975 and June 1984, scoring 25 goals, including matches against combined teams, and clubs.^[7] He played 38 matches against national teams (20 of them were official FIFA matches), and scored 20 goals, and the nine other matches were against combined teams, and clubs, scoring five goals in those matches. His first national team match was played on 30 September 1975, when the Peru national team beat Brazil 3–1.^[7] Roberto Dinamite's first Brazil national team goal was scored on 23 May 1976, when Brazil beat England 1–0.^[7] His last cap was earned on 17 June 1984, when Brazil and Argentina drew 0–0.^[7]

Dinamite was a reserve player in the 1978 FIFA World Cup, scoring three goals.^[5] He was also reserve player for Serginho in the 1982 FIFA World Cup, and was called by Telê Santana after Careca got injured.^[5]

Roberto Dinamite played five Brazil Olympic team matches, all of them in 1972.^[8] He scored one goal in his last match, played on 11 August 1972, when Brazil and Tuna Luso drew 1–1.^[8]

Politics

After his retirement from football, he became a politician. In 1992, after joining the PSDB party, he ran for the State Assembly of Rio de Janeiro, being elected with 34,893 votes,^[5] and being re-elected twice since.

As a member of PMDB, Roberto Dinamite was elected Rio de Janeiro state deputy in 1994, with 68,516 votes, in 1998, with 44,993 votes,^[5] in 2002, with 53,172 votes^[9] and in 2006, with 49,097 votes.^[10]

Roberto Dinamite was a candidate to Vasco da Gama presidency in 2003 and in 2006. He was elected president of Vasco da Gama on 21 June 2008.^[3]

Death

Roberto Dinamite died of intestinal cancer in Rio de Janeiro on 8 January 2023, at the age of 68, after fighting against the disease since 2021.^[11]

Career statistics

Club

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

Club	Season	League			State League		Cup[lower-alpha 1]		Continental		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Vasco da Gama	1971	Série A	6	1	0	0	—		—		6	1
	1972		11	4	11	2	—		—		22	6
	1973		32	13	19	5	—		—		51	18
	1974		26	16	20	17	—		—		46	33
	1975		19	15	28	25	—		6	2	53	42
	1976		19	12	26	15	—		—		45	27
	1977		17	7	27	25	—		—		44	32
	1978		17	14	21	19	—		—		38	33
	1979		14	10	35	33	—		—		49	43
	Total		161	92	187	141	0	0	6	2	354	235
Barcelona	1979–80	La Liga	8	2	—		1	0	2[lower-alpha 2]	1	11	3
Vasco da Gama	1980	Série A	6	8	24	14	—		—		30	22
	1981		19	14	27	31	—		—		46	45
	1982		16	12	20	15	—		—		36	27
	1983		21	9	14	7	—		—		35	16
	1984		21	16	17	9	—		—		38	25
	1985		22	16	20	12	—		—		42	28
	1986		15	5	24	19	—		—		39	24
	1987		14	6	29	14	—		—		43	20
	1988		10	3	3	1	—		—		13	4
	1989		0	0	16	9	—		—		16	9
	1990		4	0	15	3	2	0	8	1	29	4
	1992		2	0	19	9	3	1	—		24	10
	Total		150	89	228	143	5	1	8	1	391	234
Portuguesa (loan)	1989	Série A	17	9	0	0	—		—		17	9
Campo Grande (loan)	1991	Série B	0	0	14	0	—		—		14	0
Career total			336	192	429	284	6	1	16	4	787	481

1. Includes Copa do Brasil, Supercopa do Brasil and Copa del Rey
2. Appearances in European Super Cup

International

Appearances and goals by national team and year^[12]

National team	Year	Apps	Goals
Brazil	1975	2	0
	1976	6	6
	1977	10	6
	1978	6	3
	1979	2	1
	1981	1	1
	1982	2	0
	1983	7	3
	1984	2	0
Total		38	20

Scores and results list Brazil's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Dinamite goal.

List of international goals scored by Roberto Dinamite

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition	Ref.
1	23 May 1976	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, United States	England	1–0	1–0	1976 U.S.A. Bicentennial Cup Tournament	[13]
2	31 May 1976	Yale Bowl, New Haven, United States	Italy	4–1	4–1	1976 U.S.A. Bicentennial Cup Tournament	[14]
3	4 June 1976	Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara, Mexico	Mexico	1–0	3–0	Friendly	[15]
4				3–0
5	9 June 1976	Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Paraguay	–	3–1	Friendly	[16]
6				–
7	23 January 1977	Estádio do Morumbi, São Paulo, Brazil	Bulgaria	1–0	1–0	Friendly	[17]
8	9 March 1977	Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Colombia	1–0	6–0	1978 FIFA World Cup qualification	[18]
9				3–0
10	20 March 1977	Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Paraguay	1–0	1–1	1978 FIFA World Cup qualification	[19]
11	30 June 1977	Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	France	2–0	2–2	Friendly	[20]
12	14 July 1977	Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero, Cali, Colombia	Bolivia	3–0	8–0	1978 FIFA World Cup qualification	[21]
13	11 June 1978	Estadio José María Minella, Mar del Plata, Argentina	Austria	1–0	1–0	1978 FIFA World Cup	[22]
14	21 June 1978	Estadio Malvinas Argentinas, Mendoza, Argentina	Poland	2–1	3–1	1978 FIFA World Cup	[23]
15				3–1
16	26 July 1979	Estadio Hernando Siles, La Paz, Bolivia	Bolivia	–	1–2	1979 Copa América	[24]
17	28 October 1981	Estádio Olímpico Monumental, Porto Alegre, Brazil	Bulgaria	1–0	3–0	Friendly	[25]
18	17 August 1983	Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa, Quito, Ecuador	Ecuador	1–0	1–0	1983 Copa América	[26]
19	1 September 1983	Estádio Serra Dourada, Goiânia, Brazil	Ecuador	2–0	5–0	1983 Copa América	[27]
20				3–0

Honours

Vasco da Gama

• Campeonato Brasileiro Série A: 1974
• Campeonato Carioca: 1977, 1982, 1987, 1988, 1992

Brazil U23

• CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic: 1971

Brazil

• Bicentennial Cup: 1976
• FIFA World Cup third Place: 1978
• Copa América runner-up: 1983

Individual

• Vasco da Gama all-time top goalscorer: 702 goals
• Campeonato Brasileiro Série A all-time top goalscorer: 190 goals
• Campeonato Carioca all-time top goalscorer: 284 goals
• 42nd-highest official goalscorer in football history: 517 goals (according to RSSSF)
• Campeonato Brasileiro Série A top scorer: 1974 (16 goals), 1984 (16 goals)
• Campeonato Carioca top scorer: 1978 (19 goals), 1981 (31 goals), 1985 (12 goals)
• Bola de Prata: 1979, 1981, 1984
• Copa América top scorer: 1983 (3 goals)
• Maior Ídolo do Rio (Rio's Greatest Idol) by Jornal dos Sports newspaper: 1985
• Craque do Brasil (Outstanding player of Brazil) by Jornal dos Sports newspaper: 1985

See also

• List of men's footballers with 500 or more goals

References

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External links

• Official Website