Sérgio Luís Donizetti

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Personal information
João Paulo
Full name	Sérgio Luís Donizetti
Date of birth	September 7, 1964 (1964-09-07) (age 43)
Place of birth	Campinas, Brazil
Height	171 cm
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	Retired
Number	11
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1983-1989 1989-1994 1994 1995 1996-1998 1999-2000 2000 2004 2004	Guarani FC A.S. Bari CR Vasco da Gama Goiás EC Corinthians União São João Mito HollyHock Taquaritinga AA Internacional
National team
1987-1991	Brazil	15 (4)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Men's Football
Olympic medal record
Silver	1988 Seoul	Team Competition

Sérgio Luís Donizetti, best known as João Paulo (born in Campinas, September 7, 1964) is a Brazilian footballer striker.

He joined Bari in 1989, and has formed a fearsome striking partnership with Pietro Maiellaro and later with Romanian Florin Raducioiu. After scoring six goals in 33 Serie A matches in the 1989-1990 season, he would score 12 times in the 1990-1991 season, the most memorable of which was a double against A.C. Milan on the penultimate round of the season, thus sealing the title for Sampdoria, which won its first ever (and so far the only) Serie A title in club history.

He started the following season brightly and was on his usually excellent form. But in their third match at home to, ironically, Sampdoria in torrential rain, his leg was broken by defender Marco Lanna in a tackle along the sidelines which ended his season. What's more ironic is the fact that Lanna would also badly damage the ankle of David Platt in the return match just five months later.

It took him an entire year to recover and he stayed on with Bari after its relegation to Serie B for two more seasons until 1994.

He has also played for the Brazil national team, scoring twice (one goal apiece against Uruguay, and in the notorious match against Argentina) in the Copa America in 1991.