Cabinho (footballer)

In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Castro and the second or paternal family name is Silva.

Cabinho

Cabinho in 1976
Personal information
Full name	Evanivaldo Castro Silva
Date of birth	(1949-04-28) 28 April 1949
Place of birth	Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1968–1969	América (SP)	24	(17)
1969–1970	Flamengo	6	(1)
1971	Portuguesa	19	(7)
1972	Atlético Mineiro	13	(2)
1973–1974	Portuguesa	36	(9)
1974–1979	UNAM	184	(151)
1979–1982	Atlante	134	(108)
1982–1985	León	76	(44)
1985–1986	Paysandu	0	(0)
1986–1988	Tigres UANL	33	(9)
Total		525	(348)
Managerial career
2002	Lobos BUAP
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Evanivaldo Castro Silva (born April 28, 1948), also known as Cabinho, is a Brazilian-born former professional footballer who played as forward. He gained his greatest professional fame in Mexico, he is also a Mexican naturalized citizen.

Beginnings and Mexican league

Cabinho began his career at América (SP), in 1968. In 1969 Cabinho played for the popular Brazilian club Flamengo, where he played six matches and scored one goal.

Cabinho arrived in Mexico on July 19, 1974. During his first season, despite not playing to the best of his abilities, scored a total of 16 goals. This was just a taste prior to becoming one of the best goal scorers in Mexican soccer history, winning a total of 8 scoring titles (7 consecutively). Throughout his stint in México, Cabinho scored a total of 312 goals.

Evanivaldo Castro was known as "Cabo" or "Cabinho" (Corporal) due to his partial taste for military camouflage clothing.

Cabinho was UNAM Pumas' maximum goal scorer in 4 seasons: 1975/76 (29), 76/77 (34), 77/78 (33), and 78/79 sharing the scoring title with Hugo Sánchez with 26 goals.

While playing for Pumas, Cabinho achieved the Mexican Championship Title for the first time in July 1977, under the management of Jorge Marik.

Cabinho played for UNAM for five consecutive seasons (1974–1979), he then went on to play for another of México City's great teams, Atlante F.C. At Atlante, he was the maximum goal scorer of the championship three times, seasons 79/80 (30), 80/81 (29) and 81/82 (32). He scored a total of 102 goals while playing for Potros de Hierro (Iron Colts) of Atlante F.C.

His next stint was at León. With the team he reached the semi-finals in the 84-85 season, under the management of Hungarian coach Árpád Fekete. The semi-finals were played against his old team, Pumas de la UNAM. That year he also achieved his last Top Scorer Championship with 23 goals.

Later career

In 1986, after a one-season stint in Brazilian team Paysandu, Cabinho returned to play in México; this time he joined UANL Tigres, in the Northern city of Monterrey. Here he played until his retirement as an active player.

In all, during his playing career in México, Cabinho played a total of 415 games with 312 goals scored; with an impressive average of 0.75 goals per game.

After the end of his playing career Cabinho took up coaching and managed México's second division team Lobos de la BUAP. He became Mexican citizen.

Honours

Portuguesa

• Campeonato Paulista: 1973
• Taça Estado de São Paulo: 1973

UNAM

• Mexican Primera División: 1976–77
• Copa México: 1974–75
• Campeón de Campeones: 1975

External links

• List of his goals
• Evanivaldo Castro (Cabinho) at the Wayback Machine (archived 24 June 2006)
• Cabinho at BDFA (in Spanish)
• Profile at Globo Esporte's Futpedia