Zé Roberto

Zé Roberto is one of those players who makes you question everything you thought you knew about age and peak performance. A left-sided midfielder born in São Paulo in 1974, he had the kind of career arc that just doesn't happen — thriving in the Bundesliga with Bayer Leverkusen and Bayern Munich, winning Bundesliga titles, then somehow heading back to Brazil and carrying on well into his forties with Grêmio and Palmeiras at a level that would embarrass players half his age. He was never the flashiest name in the room, but his positioning, endurance, and football intelligence were quietly elite for two solid decades. There's something deeply satisfying about a player who just refuses to be written off, and Zé Roberto embodied that stubbornness in the best possible way.

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Name (English)

Zé Roberto

Name (Japanese)

ジョゼ・ロベルト・ダ・シウヴァ・ジュニオル

Reading

じょぜ・ろべると・だ・しうゔぁ・じゅにおる

Born

July 6, 1974 (age 52)

Origin

São Paulo, Brazil

Height

172 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Tiger

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/zr11/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%C3%A9%20Roberto
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%82%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%83%99%E3%83%AB%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%80%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A6%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A5%E3%83%8B%E3%82%AA%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57167

Tags

• São Paulo
• association football player

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.