Paulo Henrique Ganso

Ganso is one of those players who makes you fall in love with football all over again — not through brute force or pace, but through sheer elegance and vision. Growing up in Ananindeua, Pará, he came through Santos as a teenager and immediately looked like the next great Brazilian playmaker, the kind of attacking midfielder who seems to have an extra second on the ball that nobody else has. That 2010-11 Santos side was something special, and Ganso's role in winning the Copa Libertadores in 2011 alongside a young Neymar was genuinely magical. His career took him through São Paulo and eventually to France with Fluminense stints bookending everything, and while he never quite hit the peak people dreamed for him early on, I'd take twenty minutes of peak Ganso over a full season of workhorse midfielders any day.

Name (English)

Paulo Henrique Ganso

Name (Japanese)

パウロ・エンリケ・シャガス・ジ・リマ

Reading

ぱうろ・えんりけ・しゃがす・じ・りま

Born

October 12, 1989 (age 36)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Snake

Origin

Ananindeua, Pará, Brazil

Height

184 cm

Occupation

association football player

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttp://phgansooficial.com.br/
• Xhttps://x.com/phganso
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%91%E3%82%A6%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A8%E3%83%B3%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B1%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%82%AC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%9E

Tags

• Pará
• association football player

Last updated

2026-06-02

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