Robson Luis Pereira da Silva (

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, September 21, 1974), known as Luis Robson, is a former

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who played as a

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. Robson began his professional career in

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. He moved to

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in 1996. After spending a year at the club, he joined

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on loan. Robson also had a period of one year with

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before moving to

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, where he spent five years with

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, the most successful period in his career. During his time at Spartak he won five Russian Top League / Division titles and played in the Champions League. After leaving Spartak, Robson never rediscovered his best form and had short and unsuccessful spells in Japan and

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, before returning to

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, where he played for Marilia. In 2006, his contract with Marilia expired and he ended his career.BB
Apesar do frio, Rússia se impõe como opção para craques brasileiros
2 May 2007 "Com 32 gols em 102 jogos, Luis Robson foi o jogador latino-americano que mais gols fez na Rússia."

Honours

Club

;Spartak Moscow * Russian Top Division / League:

1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of ...

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school s ...

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a multi-national coalition in an invasion of Afghanistan ...

* Russian Cup:

Individual

CIS Cup The Commonwealth of Independent States Cup (russian: Кубок чемпионов Содружества, Кубок Содружества, Кубок чемпионов содружества стран СНГ и Балтии) is a defunct ann ...

top goalscorer:

(shared)

References

External links

Sport Express Russia Player of the Year

Bio at Peoples.ru
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Robson, Luis 1974 births Living people People from Volta Redonda Brazilian footballers Brazilian expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Portugal U.D. Leiria players Expatriate footballers in Russia FC Spartak Moscow players Russian Premier League players Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo players FC Lorient players Marília Atlético Clube players Expatriate footballers in Japan Expatriate footballers in France J1 League players Association football forwards Sportspeople from Rio de Janeiro (state)