Brazilian footballer

Rivaldo Vitor Borba Ferreira

Rivaldo Vítor Borba Ferreira, known simply as Rivaldo, is a Brazilian former footballer who played mainly as a second striker but also as a attacking midfielder, and on occasion deployed as a wide midfielder or as a winger. Known for his skill and creativity, Rivaldo was renowned for his bending free kicks, bicycle kicks, feints, powerful ball striking from distance, and ability to both score and create goals. In 1999, he won the Ballon d'Or and was named FIFA World Player of the Year. In 2004, he was named by Pelé in the FIFA 100 list of the world's greatest living players.

Born

1972

April 19

Died

Living

Era

1970s

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1972 Born

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531 Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persians at Raqqa (northern Syria).
1024 Election of Pope John XIX following the death of his brother Pope Benedict VIII.
1042 Following the attempt of Byzantine Emperor Michael V Kalaphates to depose his wife and empress Zoe Porphyrogenita, a popular uprising in Constantinople breaks out with the intention to restore her.

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The world in 1972

When Rivaldo arrived

april 10 Tombs containing bamboo slips, among them Sun Tzu's Art of War and Sun Bin's lost military treatise, are discovered by construction workers in Shandong.
april 10 Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967, American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam.
april 13 The Universal Postal Union decides to recognize the People's Republic of China as the only legitimate Chinese representative, effectively expelling the Republic of China administering Taiwan.
april 13 Vietnam War: The Battle of An Lộc begins.

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Elizabeth Dilling 1894–1966 American author and activist (died 1966) Erich Hartmann 1922–1993 German colonel and pilot (died 1993) Fernando Botero 1932–2023 Colombian painter and sculptor (died 2023) Getúlio Vargas 1882–1954 Brazilian lawyer and politician, 14th President of Brazil (died 1954) James Franco 1978– American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter James Heckman 1944– American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate Jayne Mansfield 1933–1967 American model and actress (died 1967) Jiroemon Kimura 1897– Japanese super-centenarian, oldest verified man ever (died 2013) Kelly Olynyk 1991– Canadian basketball player

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