Nilmar Honorato da Silva

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Nilmar
Personal information
Full name Nilmar Honorato da Silva
Date of birth July 14, 1984 (1984-07-14) (age 23)
Place of birth    Bandeirantes, Paraná, Brazil
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position Striker
Club information
Current club Internacional
Youth clubs
1999-2001 Internacional
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
2002-2004
2004-2005
2005-2007
2007-2008
 Internacional
Lyon
→ Corinthians
Internacional		 42 (37)
32 (2)
55 (39)
2 (1)   
National team2
2003-2004 Brazil 5 (1)

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only and
correct as of 00:00, 05 November 2007 (UTC).
2 National team caps and goals correct
as of 00:00, 05 November 2007 (UTC).
* Appearances (Goals)

Nilmar Honorato da Silva or simply Nilmar (born 14 July 1984 in Bandeirantes, Paraná) is a Brazilian footballer, currently playing for Internacional.

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[edit] Background

After coming from the Internacional youth teams, Nilmar was signed for just over £5 million by Lyon initially as cover for the now ex-Lyon player Giovane Élber. He signed with a clause in his contract that stated that he could be loaned back to Internacional once Elber was fit.

However, he was very impressive, scoring two debut goals as a substitute against Rennes. He did not score any more goals in Ligue 1 that season, and with the impending signing of Fred, Lyon were forced to loan him (this time to Corinthians) to stay within the limit of non-EU players.

Lyon already had four established forwards anyway: Fred, Sylvain Wiltord, Milan Baros, and Sidney Govou. Since he was very impressive at Corinthians, the South American club eventually bought him outright for a fee that could rise to £6.8 million.

At Corinthians the young striker hit the target on his debut against São Paulo Futebol Clube with almost his first touch of the ball and he continued to impress fans and critics alike throughout his first season. His skill, speed and mazy dribbles helped win him a place in the Brazilian League all-star team for the 2005 season.

On August 17, 2007, the Justiça do Trabalho (literally, court of employment) cancelled Nilmar's contract because Sport Club Corinthians Paulista owed the player two million euros. Nilmar could then sign for any club for free, while Sport Club Corinthians Paulista must still pay the eight million euros they owed to Olympique Lyonnais for Nilmar's original transfer in 2005. (FIFA could threaten to relegate the Brazilian club and block future transfers if the debt was not paid).

In the following month, Nilmar returned to Internacional. He made his new debut for the Porto Alegre team on 04 November 2007, when Inter beat Vasco da Gama 2-1.

He is set to sign with Olympiakos in the summer transfer season for 4.2 million euros

[edit] National team

Nilmar has been capped five times for the Brazil national football team. Nilmar's debut was against Mexico in the Gold Cup on July 13 2003. His first and only goal came against Haiti on August 18 2004.

[edit] Honors and awards

[edit] Personal Honours

  • São Paulo state league's top scorer: 2006

[edit] Contract

  • 13th September 2007 to 12th September 2010

[edit] External links

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