Nilmar

Nilmar is a pupil of the football school “ Internacional ” from Porto Alegre . Speaking for the first team in 2002-2004, the striker scored 37 goals in 42 matches, which attracted attention from the French “ Lyon ”. In the very first match for this club against Rennes , Nilmar scored 2 goals, replacing him. More in the 2004/05 season, the Brazilian could not score and was leased to Corinthians . The return to the homeland had a beneficial effect on the performance of Nilmar. According to the results of 2005, in which Corinthians became the champion of Brazil in intense competition with the former club of the player, Internacional, Nilmar was among the best players in the tournament, and his connection with Carlos Tevez (the best player in South America at that time) was one of the strongest attacking lines in world football.

In 2006, Nilmar became the top scorer of the São Paulo State Championship , but the Corinthians failed in the Libertadores Cup , failing to win the main trophy of South America again. The team began to experience financial problems - a year before the club’s budget exceeded 100 million euros, but with the departure of investors led by Kia Dzharubchian , the budget began to decline rapidly.

In 2007, the team began to fight for survival and the Brazilian candidate for the national team Nilmar decided to return to his native Internacional , especially since at Corinthians he, like other players, was no longer paid salaries (the debt amounted to 2 million euros). According to the court’s decision, the contract with the “black and white” was terminated, and the Corinthians were obliged to pay “Lyon” 8 million euros still not transferred since 2005. As a result, Brazil's second most popular team flew to Serie B , and Nilmar made his debut as a member of Internacional on November 4, 2007 in a winning match against Vasco da Gama (2: 1).

In 2008, the club world champion 2006, Internacional, was invited to participate in the representative international tournament Dubai Cup . In the final match against the champion of Italy “ Internazionale ” Nilmar with a spectacular blow through himself (“scissors”, “ biclet ”) scored a goal and brought victory to his team.

In December 2008, Nilmar helped his club win the South American Cup for the first time in Brazilian football. For a violation against Nilmar in the first final match in La Plata against the local Estudiantes , a penalty was awarded by Alex . The match ended with the score 0: 1 in favor of Inter. In the second game, the Argentine club managed to repeat the score of the first final, extra time was assigned and the goal scored by Nilmar in the 113th minute allowed Inter to equalize. Thus, by the sum of the two meetings, Colorado’s celebrated success. According to the results of 2008, Nilmar took the 8th place in the press release for the title of the best football player in South America. ^[one]

In July 2009, Nilmar signed a five-year contract with the Spanish club “ Villarreal ”.

In December 2010, Nilmar received a serious injury to his right knee ^[2] .

In 2012, Nilmar moved to Qatar. At the end of 2014 - the first half of 2015, he again played for his native Inter, but in mid-2015 he returned to the Middle East , this time signing a contract with a club from the UAE . Having successfully played the season, Nilmar in May 2016 received a serious injury, which disabled the striker for more than a year. In July 2017, it became known that Nilmar had signed a contract with Santos until December 2018. The official introduction of the newcomer will take place on July 10 ^[3] .

  Internacional

• Gaucho League Champion : 2003, 2004, 2008
• South American Cup Winner: 2008
• Dubai Cup Winner: 2008

  Olympic Lyon

• Champion of France : 2004/2005
• French Super Cup Winner: 2005

  Corinthians

• Champion of Brazil : 2005

  Al-rayan

• Qatar Cup Winner 2013

  Brazil national team

• Youth World Cup Winner: 2003

Personal achievements

• Top scorer of the Paulista League (state championship of Sao Paulo ): 2006

• Soccerway Profile
• Player profile on Transfermarkt
• Profile at TheFinalBall.com
• Profile on L'Equipe.fr (fr.)