Paulo Rink
Paulo Roberto " Paolo " Rink ( born February 21, 1973 in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil ) is a retired German - Brazilian footballer.
Career
Association ( as a player )
Rink began his career in 1991 in his Brazilian home with Atlético Mineiro. There he celebrated his pro debut and scored in the same year his first professional hit. The following year, the attacker moved to his youth club Atlético Paranaense. There he played, apart from 1994, until 1996, when Bayer 04 Leverkusen became aware of him and committed. In the first year itself Rink prevailed and formed with a successful attack Ulf Kirsten, who scored over 30 goals together. He shot himself nine goals in 29 games. His debut in the Bundesliga was the striker on the opening day of the 1997/98 season, when he came in to replace Jens Nowotny on August 1 in the match against FC Schalke 04 in the 74th minute. With three games later scored Rink on August 23, 1997 in a 6-1 win against Karlsruher SC his first professional hit in Germany. Under coach Christoph Daum Rink came mainly as a wildcard for use. Throughout the season, he was a total of 20 times on or replaced. Here he succeeded in five goals as Einwechsler. The following year, the striker Erik Meijer was displaced and came to only eighteen missions, where he scored five goals and he was unerringly most attackers behind Kirsten. To be able to give him back more match practice, Leverkusen Rink loaned for half a year to FC Santos in the summer of 1999. To this loan deal Rink asked about Bayer responsible. After his return in winter he managed a convincing comeback and rink shot ten goals in 16 games. However, these achievements he could not continue the following season, so you sold it shortly after the beginning of the season 2001 /02 at the 1st FC Nuremberg. There he was with Jacek Krzynowek and Marek Nikl best Torvorlagengeber of the Franks. Nevertheless, they separated again a year later and the Brazilians went to Energie Cottbus. But also because the offensive players underperformed his expectations and both parties went their separate ways from the summer of 2003. While Cottbus descent, he moved to Olympiakos Nicosia Rink to Cyprus, where he developed itself into a Torgaranten and in the winter of the Dutch first division club Vitesse Arnhem secured the services of the attacker. But this engagement ended in the summer again and Rink joined the South Korean team Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors to to switch a half later to Cyprus to Olympiakos. In winter 2005/ 06 the former Bundesliga player moved within the league to Omonia Nicosia. Six months later, Rink completed his last season as a professional in the Brazilian first division club Atlético Paranaense. On 24 May 2007, he ended his career as an active player with a charity match in Curitiba.
Association (as Manager)
During his last club Atlético Paranaense he was in May 2011 Manager of the Football Department.
National
Rink could apply for German citizenship, as his great-grandfather had emigrated in 1904 from Heidelberg to Brazil. For the German national football team Rink played from 1998 to 2000 a total of 13 times and was on the national team at the Confederations Cup in 1999 and the European Football Championship 2000. His international debut he was on 2 September 1998 against Malta, when he for 63 minutes Olaf Marschall came on. While Rink still came to only two tool changes at the Confed Cup '99, he was a year later during the European Championship the only DFB attacker Erich Ribbeck, who was used in all group matches. As Table Group 1, the German team disappointing different from the competition.
On September 2, 2000 Rink completed his last game for Germany. At the World Cup qualifier against Greece, he came off the bench 20 minutes before closing for Alexander Zickler.
Paulo Rink was able to prevail in the national team ever. In just two games, he stood over the full 90 minutes on the court.