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My Take
Paulo Rangel is the kind of footballer whose biography is thinner online than his story surely was in life. Born in 1985 in Belém, the gateway to the Amazon in Brazil's Pará state, and now retired, he came up far from the country's celebrated southern academies. To me that matters: reaching the professional game from Brazil's northern fringe takes a hunger that doesn't fit neatly into a database. The records are sparse, but the single line of his journey carries weight, and I read it as the arc of someone who staked everything on the sport. I find quiet dignity in careers like his.
Overview
Paulo Rangel do Nascimento Gomes (born 4 February 1985) is a Brazilian retired footballer.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Paulo Rangel
- Name (Japanese)
- パウロ・ランゲル・ド・ナシメント・ゴメス
- Reading
- ぱうろ・らんげる・ど・なしめんと・ごめす
- Born
- February 4, 1985 (age 41)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aquarius / Ox
- Origin
- Belém, Pará, Brazil
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- association football player
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Association football player — see all → · More people from Brazil →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.