Djalma Santos (1929–2013) was a Brazilian association football player. Santos was born in São Paulo on 27 February 1929. He died in Uberaba on 23 July 2013, at the age of 84.
Santos competed in association football as a defender. The clubs and national sides on that record are Associação Portuguesa de Desportos (1948–1959), 434 appearances and 11 goals, Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras (1959–1968), 498 appearances and 10 goals, Club Athletico Paranaense (1969–1970), 32 appearances and 2 goals and the Brazil men's national football team (1952–1968), 98 appearances and 3 goals. The active career dates from 1945.
Santos took part in the 1966 FIFA World Cup, the 1962 FIFA World Cup, the 1958 FIFA World Cup and the 1954 FIFA World Cup.
The recorded cause of death is pneumonia.
Associação Portuguesa de Desportos was founded in 1920.
Djalma Santos is covered in 53 language editions of Wikipedia, a rough measure of how far the name has carried beyond Brazil.
