Geraldo Assoviador spent his entire career at Flamengo of Rio de Janeiro.
His brother Washington Geraldo Dias Alves is a former professional footballer too, having played ten years of his career in Portugal – mainly with Varzim – where his children were born to a Portuguese mother.
[2][3][4][5] His nephews Geraldo, Bruno, and Júlio also played the sport.
Although the intervention went as planned, the player suffered an anaphylaxis shock due to the local anesthesia that produced a cardiac arrest.
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