Roberto de Assis Moreira
Roberto de Assis Moreira ( born January 10, 1971 in Porto Alegre), or Assis called Roberto Assis, is a former Brazilian footballer. He is nine years older brother and current manager and consultant of the Brazilian soccer star Ronaldinho.
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- 4.2 national team
Career
Club career
Footballing starts at Grêmio
Initially Assis was a great talent of Brazilian football and was even compared with Diego Maradona. However, he remained always live up to expectations and was a mediocre player. His brother sees him as a great model. He started his career assisting the 1982 Brazilian football club Gremio FB Porto Alegre.
In November 1987 Assis was discovered by scouts in the final of the junior national championship from FC Turin, and was taken in a two-week trial under the microscope. At the end of the trial period, Turin offered him a contract with a salary of 38,000 euros, which is about 3.5 million Cruzados, the former Brazilian currency corresponded to. However, the leaders of Grêmio were not enthusiastic about Turin and offered Assis a contract with a content of less than one million Cruzados, but with a house in a noble area of Porto Algre on. Finally, he signed a professional contract with Gremio.
Assis ' professional career started very successful: he and Grêmio won three consecutive state championship of Rio Grande do Sul in 1988, 1989 and 1990 The Copa do Brasil, he won in 1989, where he got the first goal of Porto Alegre.. But in 1991 he suffered a serious knee injury that made him unable to play eight months. This injury was the crucial kink in his career: he was never able to return to his old form and left Gremio after four years and at least 49 missions ( nine goals).
Move to Europe and Career in Japan and Mexico
Once he was back on the list, among others from FC Turin, Assis decided to go to Switzerland for FC Sion. Here he sat down at the very beginning as a regular player through and scored in 97 games for the club between 1992 and 1995 29 goals and also won the Swiss Cup in 1995.
Adopted in 1995, Roberto Assis to towards Portugal Sporting Lisbon. Here, however, he could not prevail, and he graduated in the 1995/96 season only five games and scored a goal, but was nevertheless Supercup winner. In 1996 he went back home to CR Vasco da Gama, where he made not a game, and then Fluminense FC, where he graduated six games ( no goals ). After the end of the Série A in 1996 and shortly before the winter break of the 1995/96 season Assis went back to FC Sion, where he won the Swiss Championship and Swiss Cup immediately after his return. However, Roberto de Assis Moreira became not play regular first-team as during his first time in Switzerland. After the Swiss Championship 1997 Assis adopted on loan after eight games from the club.
For the season 1997/98 he went by lending back to Sporting Lisbon in the Primeira Liga. Until the winter break, he scored only eight games after all, two goals. During the winter break Assis returned to Sion. After only two disappointing games until the end of the season he moved back to the Portuguese league to CF Estrela Amadora, where he was able to achieve four goals in 12 games.
However, the club he left and went to Japan to Consadole Sapporo. Here Assis became a regular player and graduated in the J. League Division 2 1999 28 games and scored nine goals. In 1999, the midfielder after missing out on promotion to Sapporo Mexican club CD Estudiantes Tecos, where he scored two goals in 13 games.
Return to Brazil and career end in Montpellier
In 2000 he returned again to his Brazilian home to SC Corinthians Paulista. After missing Championship 2000 they succeeded in the 2001 season, where Assis, however, revealed only a game. At the end of his career in 2001 he went to Montpellier HSC in the last season of the French Division 1 His debut celebrated on Matchday 6 on 8 September 2001, when assisting the Match against AJ Auxerre (0-1) in the 86th minute came in to replace Geoffrey Doumeng. After the 13th place in the table at the end of the season and nine starts, his last 34 at the game against Olympique Marseille on May 4, 2002 ( 0:1), Roberto de Assis Moreira ended his active career.
National
With the Brazilian U-17 national team, he participated in the U- 17 World Cup in 1987. However, the tournament for the team ended in the preliminary round, after playing in the first two games each 0-0 against France and Saudi Arabia, but the last game against Australia lost 0-1. Assis completed all three games. Also took part Assisting with the Brazilian U-20 national team at the U - 20 World Cup in 1989. Here, the team was able to win with him all three group games and also the quarter or semi-final. After the final missed the game against Portugal ( 0-1) Brazil won the 3rd place match against the United States, where Assis first time playing in the tournament.
In addition Assis should mitagieren with the U -23 Brazil 1992 qualifying for the Olympic Games (where you can not finally played ), but he could not convince the coach that the severe injury he had suffered in the previous year, in him terms of ability and potential, were not affected.
After the career
After his playing career he became an adviser to his brother Ronaldinho. Soon after the founding of the club FC Porto Alegre, the state league first division of Rio Grande do Sul, in 2006, Assis became its President.
In April 2012, Assis was sentenced in Porto Alegre for money laundering and tax evasion in the first instance to five years and five months in prison. He is accused of having embezzled 2003 and 2004, foreign currency transfers in six figures of the Brazilian Central Bank.
Family
Assis came on 10 January 1971 as the first of three children of his parents João de Silva Moreira, the amateur player at Cruzeiro Esporte Clube, parking attendant at Gremio and welder was at the shipyard and Dona Miguelina de Assis, the cosmetics saleswoman and later was a nurse, in Porto Alegre to the world.
His father died a few days after his 19th wedding anniversary on January 10, 1989, which he celebrated with his family and also Roberto, who had to recover after an operation for appendicitis and therefore flew on his 18th birthday back to his homeland. He was found unconscious in the pool of the family and died days later in hospital. The cause was never determined properly: officially it is said that he suffered a heart attack, but many thought that he died because of alcohol poisoning.
His stepfather Vanderlei died on October 6, 2012 from a sudden heart attack.
Assis is married to Carla and has three children: his son Diego (* 1994), who is enrolled in CR Flamengo since 2012 and was also spotted by FC Barcelona, his daughter Roberta and Melany (1992 ) rock singer currently in Mexico.
Achievements
Clubs
- State championship of Rio Grande do Sul: 1988, 1989, 1990
- Cup of Brazil: 1989
- Swiss champion: 1996, 1997
- Swiss Cup: 1995, 1996, 1997
- Portuguese Supercup: 1995
- Portuguese Cup: 2nd place in 1995
- State Championship of São Paulo: 2001
National
- U- 20 World Cup: 3rd place 1989