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Rogério Oliveira

Rogério Oliveira

Brazilian footballer

Rogério Oliveira da Costa (10 May 1976 – 19 December 2006)[1][2] was a Brazilian-born football striker. He was born in Foz do Iguaçu and became a naturalized Macedonian citizen.

In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Oliveira and the second or paternal family name is da Costa.
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Career

He played for FK Pobeda, FK Rabotnički, FK Vardar and FK Shkendija 79 in Macedonia, Royal Antwerp in Belgium, Trabzonspor and Vanspor in Turkey and PAS Giannina in Greece (2004-2006).[3][4] He's the first Brazilian to play in the Macedonian league, which he played in Macedonia since 1997, and acquired Macedonian citizenship shortly before his death in Skopje of a heart attack at the age of 30.

In the 1998–99 season, while playing for FK Pobeda, he was the Macedonian First League top scorer with 22 goals, and was also awarded as the best foreign player of that season by the Macedonian Football Federation. By many football fans in Macedonia, he is regarded as the best foreign player ever to have played in Macedonia.

References

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    RIP ROGERIO OLIVEIRA
  2. [2]
    Morre Rogério Oliveira, primeiro brasileiro a jogar na Macedônia (in Portuguese)
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    "Roster 2004-05 (greek)".
  4. [4]
    "Roster (2005-06) greek".
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