Chumbinho

Marinaldo Cicero da Silva, better known as Chumbinho, fascinates me as a journeyman who took his game from Brazil to Greece and then Azerbaijan's Qarabağ. Hailing from Sao Paulo state and standing only 1.72 m, he carved out a professional career in the most ruthlessly competitive football nation on earth. Nicknames like Chumbinho often attach to smaller players, and I imagine he survived on guile and technique long before he survived on reputation. There is real honor in simply enduring among Brazil's endless conveyor belt of talent. I have a soft spot for the unsung professionals who keep the game running, and he earns my quiet applause.

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Name (English)

Chumbinho

Name (Japanese)

マリナウド・シセロ・ダ・シルバ

Reading

まりなうど・しせろ・だ・しるば

Born

September 21, 1986 (age 40)

Origin

Palmares Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil

Height

174 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Tiger

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumbinho%20(footballer%2C%20born%201986)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AA%E3%83%8A%E3%82%A6%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%82%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BB%E3%83%80%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%AB%E3%83%90
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q210284

Tags

• São Paulo
• association football player

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.