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Dida may refer to:
- Edvaldo Alves de Santa Rosa (1934–2002), former Brazilian football player famous in the 1950s and 1960s
- André Amade (born 1983), Brazilian mixed martial artist
- Dida (footballer, born 1973), real name Nélson de Jesus Silva, a Brazilian goalkeeper
- Dida language, a Kru language, or two languages, spoken in Côte d'Ivoire
- Dida Diafat (born 1970), Frenchman who became a world champion in Thai kickboxing
- DiDA, the Diploma in Digital Applications
- Drug Industry Document Archive, the Drug Industry Document Archive at the University of California, San Francisco, Library
- "Dida", a song by Joan Baez from her 1974 album Gracias a la Vida
- Dida (moth), a genus of moths of the Noctuidae family
- Dida of Eynsham, a 7th-century sub-king of the Mercian territory
Nélson de Jesus Silva (born 7 October 1973), better known simply as Dida , is a Brazilian football goalkeeper who is currently a free agent after last playing for SC Internacional in 2015. After starting his senior club career in Brazil in the early 1990s with Vitória, he later established his reputation as a penalty kick-saving specialist with Cruzeiro and Corinthians. He is perhaps best remembered for his successful and often tumultuous ten-year stint with A.C. Milan from 2000 to 2010, where he established himself as one of the best goalkeepers in the world due to his shot-stopping ability and command of the area; he won multiple trophies and individual awards with the club but became equally known for his propensity for errors as well as his excellent gameplay, in addition to gaining media attention for being hit by a lit flare in a 2005 match against crosstown rivals F.C. Internazionale. He won one Serie A title ( Scudetto) and twice the UEFA Champions League with Milan, with the first of those victories coming after he saved three penalties in the 2003 final against Juventus. One of four Rossoneri goalies with over 300 total career appearances, Dida was inducted into Milan's Hall of Fame in 2014, and has joined other former club players for various off-pitch events and exhibition matches following his 2010 departure. After a two-year absence from playing, he returned to Brazil in 2012, suiting up for three teams— Portuguesa, Grêmio and Internacional—in as many seasons.
On the international level, Dida earned 91 caps in eleven years with the Brazil national team, winning the FIFA World Cup and an Olympic medal, and is the most successful player in the history of the FIFA Confederations Cup, with two winners' medals and 22 total matches played over the first five tournaments since its 1997 inception. He notably broke a color barrier during the 1999 Copa América by becoming the Seleção's first Afro-Brazilian starting goalkeeper since Moacyr Barbosa half a century earlier, and, in 2006, was the first black goalkeeper to start in a FIFA World Cup final for Brazil since 1950. He retired from international play after Brazil were eliminated by France in the quarterfinals.
Dida is the first Brazilian goalkeeper to be nominated for the FIFA Ballon d'Or, is the first two-time winner of the FIFA Club World Cup, the inaugural winner of the FIFPro Goalkeeper of the Year award, and is a seven-time nominee of the IFFHS World's Best Goalkeeper award, twice with Corinthians and five times with Milan. He was named the best Brazilian keeper of the 21st century by IFFHS, and is widely rated among the all-time greats in the position for Brazil alongside Marcos, Rogério Ceni, Cláudio Taffarel, and Gilmar. He has been credited with ending the prejudice against black goalkeepers in Brazilian club football due to his success in Europe, and upon joining Internacional in 2014, became the first Afro-Brazilian keeper to play for the club in 43 years.