Paulo Rangel

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.

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

Occupation

association football player

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%91%E3%82%A6%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B2%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8A%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B4%E3%83%A1%E3%82%B9

Tags

• Pará
• association football player

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.