Helton

Helton da Silva Arruda, simply Helton, is a goalkeeper who truly impresses me. From São Gonçalo near Rio, he crossed the Atlantic from Vasco da Gama and blossomed in Portugal, anchoring FC Porto to eighteen major titles. Across fourteen seasons he made 299 Primeira Liga appearances, a level of reliability few ever reach, and he even guarded Brazil's net at the 2007 Copa América. Goalkeepers can look unglamorous, but they are the spine of any side. To be trusted at one club for so long says as much about character as it does about technique. A man who became a legend in a foreign land earns my sincere respect.

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Name (English)

Helton

Name (Japanese)

エウトン・ダ・シウヴァ・アルーダ

Reading

えうとん・だ・しうゔぁ・あるーだ

Born

May 18, 1978 (age 48)

Origin

São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Height

189 cm

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Horse

• Official sitehttps://m.facebook.com/helton1oficial/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helton%20(footballer)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%82%A6%E3%83%88%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%80%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A6%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%80
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q359481

Tags

• Rio de Janeiro
• association football player
• association football coach

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.