# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/emilio-da-silva
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:30:23.646Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/emilio-da-silva"
name: "Emílio da Silva"
slug: "emilio-da-silva"
description: "Emilio Ribeiro Neves da Silva, known simply as Emílio da Silva; born 5 April 1982 in Dili, Timor Timur, Indonesia, is a former footballer from East Timor who has represented AD Esperança since 2004. Prior to this, da Silva played for FC Zebra for two years, having spent the entirety of his youth career (2000–2002) there also.\nA prolific striker at club level, he has also notched 10 goals in 25 caps for the Timor-Leste national football team since 2003, and is their all-time top scorer and appearance holder, both by a considerable margin. Da Silva is considered to be the best East Timorese footballer of all time. In 2011, Emilio was the highest paid athlete from East Timor, making $20,000 (USD)."
tagline: "East Timorese footballer"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1982-04-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.04
  momentum:             0.4929577464788732
  historical:           5.672030666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Em%C3%ADlio_da_Silva"
    title: "Emílio da Silva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88_%D8%AF%D8%A7_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84%DA%A4%D8%A7"
    title: "اميليو دا سيلڤا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Em%C3%ADlio_da_Silva_(Fu%C3%9Fballspieler%2C_1982)"
    title: "Emílio da Silva (Fußballspieler, 1982)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Em%C3%ADlio_da_Silva"
    title: "Emílio da Silva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Em%C3%ADlio_da_Silva"
    title: "Emílio da Silva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9D%B4%EB%B0%80%EB%A6%AC%EC%9A%B0_%EB%8B%A4_%EC%8B%A4%EB%B0%94"
    title: "이밀리우 다 실바"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3288786"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump