Paulo Silas

Paulo Silas reads to me like a quintessential globe-trotting Brazilian midfielder of his era. Breaking through at Sao Paulo in the mid-1980s and then carrying that game to Sporting in Portugal, Cesena and Sampdoria in Italy, and San Lorenzo in Argentina is a career that maps the way Brazilian talent fanned out across the football world. I admire players like him who become carriers of a style rather than just employees of a club. That he later moved into coaching and punditry feels natural for a central midfielder, the position where you spend the whole match reading the game. A genuine journeyman in the best sense.

Name (English)

Paulo Silas

Name (Japanese)

パウロ・シーラス・ド・プラド・ペレイラ

Reading

ぱうろ・しーらす・ど・ぷらど・ぺれいら

Born

August 27, 1965 (age 60)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Snake

Origin

Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

Height

175 cm

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

Motto

Private

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/silascoach/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%91%E3%82%A6%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%97%E3%83%A9%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9A%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A9

Tags

• São Paulo
• association football player
• association football coach

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.