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Full Name: | Irani Pereira de Brito |
Birth Date: | 1 March 1976 |
Birth Place: | Recife, Brazil |
Death Place: | Recife, Brazil |
Height: | 1.83 m |
Position: | Forward |
Youthyears1: | –1997 |
Youthclubs1: | Sport Recife |
Years1: | 1996–2001 |
Years2: | 1997 |
Clubs2: | → Internacional (loan) |
Years3: | 1997 |
Clubs3: | → Guarani (loan) |
Pcupdate: | 1 February 2024 |
Irani Pereira de Brito (1 March 1976 – 31 December 2020), simply known as Irani, was a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a forward.
Great highlight of the 1997 Copa São Paulo de Futebol Jr. for Sport, Irani made history due to the final of the 1998 Pernambucano Championship, where he scored two goals.[1] He won a three times the state championship in addition to the 2000 Copa do Nordeste.[2]
2000
1998, 1999, 2000
Irani died on 31 December 2020, at Getúlio Vargas Hospital in Recife, a victim of COVID-19.[3]