Silvio Proto

I'm drawn to Silvio Proto for the position he chose: goalkeeper, the loneliest and most thankless job on the pitch. Coming out of Charleroi, a hard-edged industrial town in Belgium's Hainaut, and carrying an Italian immigrant name, he stood 184 cm at the last line of defense, where one mistake gets remembered and a hundred saves get forgotten. I've always preferred the players who guard the back over the ones chasing glory up front. Proto's steady, unglamorous reliability is exactly the kind of professionalism I want to applaud quietly. He spent a career absorbing pressure so his teammates didn't have to.

Name (English)

Silvio Proto

Name (Japanese)

シルヴィオ・プロト

Reading

しるゔぃお・ぷろと

Born

May 23, 1983 (age 43)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Boar

Origin

Hainaut, Belgium

Height

184 cm

Occupation

association football player

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B7%E3%83%AB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%82%AA%E3%83%BB%E3%83%97%E3%83%AD%E3%83%88

Tags

• Hainaut
• association football player

Last updated

2026-06-02

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