João Dickson Carvalho is a former Brazil

Brazil

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ian football

Football (soccer)

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 player.

Career

Carvalho was one of several foreign players in the Japan Soccer League

Japan Soccer League

, or JSL, was the top flight soccer league in Japan between 1965 and 1992, and was the precursor to the current professional league, the J. League. JSL was the second national league of a team sport in Japan after the professional Japanese Baseball League that was founded in 1936...

, and during the 1977

Japan Soccer League 1977

Statistics of Japan Soccer League in season 1977. This was the inaugural season of the Regional Promotion Series, which replaced the Senior Cup as the source of the clubs promoted from the regional Japanese football leagues.-First Division:...

 season, he became the first foreign player to win the top scorer in the Japan Soccer League

Japan Soccer League

, or JSL, was the top flight soccer league in Japan between 1965 and 1992, and was the precursor to the current professional league, the J. League. JSL was the second national league of a team sport in Japan after the professional Japanese Baseball League that was founded in 1936...

 First Division. Carvalho scored a total of 77 goals in the league becoming the fourth all time top scorer in the Japan Soccer League First Division history.

Personal honors

• Japanese Footballer of the Year - 1 (1977)
• Japan Soccer League First Division Top Scorer - 2 (1977
  Japan Soccer League 1977
  Statistics of Japan Soccer League in season 1977. This was the inaugural season of the Regional Promotion Series, which replaced the Senior Cup as the source of the clubs promoted from the regional Japanese football leagues.-First Division:...
  
   (on his own), 1978
  Japan Soccer League 1978
  -First Division:By winning the Emperor's Cup and Japan Soccer League Cup along with the title, Mitsubishi completed the first Japanese treble ever.-Promotion/Relegation Series:Nissan promoted, Fujitsu relegated.-Second Division:-Promotion/Relegation Series:...
  
   (shared with Kunishige Kamamoto
  Kunishige Kamamoto
  Kunishige Kamamoto is a former association football player from Japan, who won the bronze medal with the Japan national team at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico, finishing as the tournament's top scorer with seven goals...
  
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• Japan Soccer League First Division Best Eleven - 5 (1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981)