Luís André da Silva or simply Da Silva (born 3 March 1972) is a former

Brazil Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population ...

ian

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

player. He and Mario dos Santos Júnior were the first Brazilian players in the

Russian Football Premier League The Russian Premier League (RPL; , ''Rossiyskaya premyer-liga''; РПЛ), also written as Russian Premier Liga, is a professional association football league in Russia and the highest level of the Russian football league system. It was establis ...

when they joined

FC Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod FC Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod was a Russian football club based in Nizhny Novgorod. They spent eight seasons in the Russian Premier League. History Early years The team of the railway workers was founded in Nizhny Novgorod in 1916. Later it was k ...

in 1995.

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1972 births Living people Brazilian men's footballers FC Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod players Russian Premier League players Brazilian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Russia Men's association football midfielders 20th-century Brazilian sportsmen {{Brazil-footy-midfielder-1970s-stub