Sebastião Pereira do Nascimento (born 24 February 1976), also known as Didi, is a Brazilian former professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who played as a striker. In 1999, German club

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signed him for $2.2 million, because they hoped he could fill the gap caused by

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, who had left Stuttgart for fellow German club

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, but he was only substituted in twice, and because he always felt bad, he was finally forced to go into a medical control. There, the inability of the player was finally found out: cartilage damage in the knee. Stuttgart finally annulled the contract pretty quickly, and later on, various other clubs seemed to be unaware of his inability and signed him although the cartilage always remained. He played for several clubs in the domestic leagues and

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in South Korean

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. Above all, he spent the peak of his career at Mexican clubs including

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, Tigres and San Luis.

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