Roberto Carlos

CTL-E-5845 · Person · other · 1973–present

VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-07101 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5845.

Roberto Carlos, born Roberto Carlos da Silva Rocha on 10 April 1973 in Garça, São Paulo, Brazil, is a Brazilian former footballer described as the most offensive-minded left-back in the history of the game. He began his career in Brazil as a forward before converting to left-back, and after Palmeiras and one season at Inter Milan he joined Real Madrid in 1996, spending 11 seasons there with 584 appearances and 71 goals in all competitions, winning four La Liga titles and three UEFA Champions Leagues. For Brazil he earned 125 caps, reached the 1998 World Cup final and won the 2002 World Cup in Korea and Japan; he was runner-up for the FIFA World Player of the Year in 1997 and for the Ballon d'Or in 2002. He is remembered above all for a bending 40-yard free kick against France at the 1997 Tournoi de France. His later career took in Fenerbahçe, Corinthians, Anzhi Makhachkala and Delhi Dynamos, where he also served as player-manager.

The record

• Also known as: Roberto Carlos da Silva Rocha, RC3

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 2 — 747 Program, Wave 8; 40-record packet). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Roberto Carlos entity in the live graph at 3,523 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5845 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 1000 (Soccer Players list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — Afro-Brazilian football figure — Black diaspora scope (Brazil). Vital status: LIVING — publicly active in January 2025, responding to press reports (Sports Illustrated). SOURCE NOTE: no Encyclopaedia Britannica biography page for this subject surfaced in this session's searches; the encyclopedic anchor is Wikipedia, carried with Sports Illustrated and OneFootball reporting (advisory flagged in the batch floor_flags). STATISTICS (sourced, dated): Real Madrid: 584 appearances / 71 goals in all competitions (1996–2007); Brazil: 125 caps — fourth-most for Brazil in the Wikipedia count (a second source tradition says second-most; both shown, not blended) — accessed 2026-10-16. MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate: Wikimedia Commons and Real Madrid/press photography of Roberto Carlos is extensive; no file page was read at file-page level in this pass, so no image is cleared — CTL-PHOTO-001; a CTL-created graphic is the standing alternative); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5845-roberto-carlos.svg); video HELD (the Shorts Link Map catalog was checked by name and variants, incl. accent-normalized forms — no matching-entity CTL Short exists for this subject); audio HELD (no CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants, incl. accent-normal) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging; the subject's own recordings/appearances are )

Sources

• Wikipedia, "Roberto Carlos" — born Roberto Carlos da Silva Rocha, 10 April 1973, Garça, São Paulo; Real Madrid 1996–2007, 584 matches / 71 goals in all competitions; four La Liga titles, three Champions Leagues; Brazil 125 caps; 2002 World Cup winner; 1997 FIFA World Player runner-up; 2002 Ballon d'Or runner-up; 1997 Tournoi de France free kick vs France — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Carlos (build store)
• Sports Illustrated (January 2025) — Roberto Carlos publicly dispelled January 2025 reports about his living arrangements, confirming his continuing public role around Real Madrid; 2002 World Cup winner — vital-status evidence — https://www.si.com/onsi/soccer/real-madrid/legends/roberto-carlos-sleeping-in-real-madrid-s-training-ground-after-separation-from-wife (build store)
• OneFootball — born 10 April 1973, Garça; 125 Brazil caps and 11 international goals; three World Cups incl. the 2002 triumph; Copa América titles 1997 and 1999; Confederations Cup 1997 — https://onefootball.com/en/news/roberto-carlos-rocketfoot-maniac-40955965 (build store)

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