# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roberto-dias
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:23:27.272Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roberto-dias"
name: "Roberto Dias"
slug: "roberto-dias"
description: "Roberto Dias Branco or simply Roberto Dias was a footballer with São Paulo FC in Brazil. He was considered by Pelé to be the greatest Brazilian central defender of the 1960s and 1970s. He was known for his finesse on defense—a player who did not need to show a rough side. He just knew how to cover and always seemed one step ahead of the forwards he covered—including Pelé. Pelé said that Roberto Dias was the only central defender who could truly mark him. In one game between Pelé's Santos FC and São Paulo FC in the 1967 edition of the Campeonato Paulista, which ended in a 3–3 draw, Dias, kept Pelé scoreless while scoring 2 goals in the process."
tagline: "Brazilian footballer (1943-2007)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Roberto_Dias_Branco_(1963).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Brazil"
  isoCode: "BR"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1943-01-07"
deathDate: "2007-09-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.17
  momentum:             0.3703703703703704
  historical:           8.080598666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%B0%D1%81_%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%BE%2C_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82%D0%BE"
    title: "Диас Бранко, Роберто"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%88_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B2"
    title: "روبرتو دياز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%88_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B2"
    title: "روبرتو دياز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Dias_Branco"
    title: "Roberto Dias Branco"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Dias"
    title: "Roberto Dias"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Dias"
    title: "Roberto Dias"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Dias_Branco"
    title: "Roberto Dias Branco"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Dias"
    title: "Roberto Dias"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Dias_Branco"
    title: "Roberto Dias Branco"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1988786"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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