Valdir Benedito (born 25 October 1965) is a retired Brazilian

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who played as a

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for

Atlético Paranaense Club Athletico Paranaense (abbreviated CAP, commonly known as Athletico Paranaense and up to 2019 known as Atlético Paranaense) is a Brazilian football team from the city of Curitiba, capital city of the Brazilian state of Paraná, founded o ...

(Brazil),

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(Brazil), Cruzeiro (Brazil), Internacional (Brazil) and

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(Japan).

Club career

Born in

Araraquara Araraquara ( ) is a city in the state of São Paulo (state), São Paulo in Brazil. The population is 250,314 (2022 est.) in an area of . It is also known as "the abode of the sun," because of its impressive sunset and because of its hot atmospher ...

, Valdir began playing football with local side

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International career

Valdir was a participant at the

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, and was capped 3 times for the Brazil national team in 1991.

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* * * 1965 births Living people Footballers from Araraquara Brazilian men's footballers Brazilian expatriate men's footballers Brazil men's international footballers Club Athletico Paranaense players Clube Atlético Mineiro players SC Internacional players Kashiwa Reysol players Expatriate men's footballers in Japan J1 League players Avaí FC players América Futebol Clube (MG) players Associação Atlética Internacional (Limeira) players São Raimundo Esporte Clube (AM) footballers Men's association football midfielders 20th-century Brazilian sportsmen Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Japan {{Brazil-footy-midfielder-1960s-stub