Mário Sérgio (Brazilian footballer)

Football player infobox
playername= Mário Sérgio


fullname = Mário Sérgio Pontes de Paiva
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dateofbirth = birth date and age|1950|9|7
cityofbirth = Rio de Janeiro
countryofbirth = Brazil
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position = Midfield
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years = 1969–1971
1971–1975
1975–1976
1976–1979
1979
1979–1981
1981–1982
1982–1983
1983
1984
1984–1985
1986
1986
1987
clubs = Flamengo
Vitória
Fluminese
Botafogo
Rosario Central
Internacional
São Paulo
Ponte Preta
Grêmio
Internacional
Palmeiras
Botafogo (SP)
AC Belinzona
Esporte Clube Bahia
caps(goals) = 00 0(0)
82 0(6)
14 0(0)
20 0(3)
00 0(0)
53 0(4)
11 0(1)
07 0(1)
00 0(0)
08 0(1)
11 0(1)
00 0(0)
00 0(0)
01 0(0)
nationalyears = 1981–1985
nationalteam = Brazil
nationalcaps(goals) = 08 0(0)
manageryears = 1987
1993–1995
1998
2001
2001
2002–2003
2003–2004
2004
2007
2007
2008
2008
managerclubs = Vitória
Corinthians
São Paulo
Vitória
Atlético Paranaense
São Cetano
Atlético Paranaense
Atlético Mineiro
Figueirense
Botafogo
Atlético Paranaense
Figueirense
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Mário Sérgio Pontes de Paiva, more commonly known as Mário Sérgio, (born September 7, 1950 in Rio de Janeiro) is a retired Brazilian footballer currently working as Atlético Paranaense's manager.

Career

Playing career

Mário Sérgio began his career in football with local club Flamengo, although he didn't make a first team appearance for the team. After two years at the club, the Brazilian midfielder moved north from Rio to Salvador based club Vitória where he made over 80 league appearances, and won the Campeonato Baiano league in 1972, in his five year stint with the club. In 1975, the Brazilian was transferred for the second time in his career, this time to his former club's, Flamengo, rivals: Fluminense. The midfielder, played fourteen times in his two years back in Rio, which included a second league title win of his career after his team secured the Campeonato Carioca title in 1975. But he soon began transferring to eight clubs across Brazil and one in Argentina, Rosario Central, for the next decade where he stayed for a maximum of three years.

During this time, Sérgio made his international début for Brazil in 1981 and picked up a number of honours at club level, including: a Campeonato Brasileiro Série A league title in 1979, the highest league in Brazilian football; two Campeonato Gaúcho league titles in 1981 and 1984 and a Intercontinental Cup with Grêmio in 1983 after his side beat Hamburger SV 2–1.

After a brief spell in Europe with Swiss team AC Belinzona, the Brazilian moved back to Brazil with Esporte Clube Bahia in 1987 where he would make one final league appearance before retiring that year.

Managerial career

After retiring in 1987, Sérgio embarked on a career in coaching with roles at his former clubs Vitória and São Paulo as well as with Corinthians.cite web|url=http://www.sambafoot.co.uk/trainers/113_Mario_Sergio.html|title=Mário Sérgio|publisher=Sambafoot|accessdate=2008-08-12|date=2007-10-08] 20 years after his retirement from football as a player, the Brazilian embarked on a career in football management after being announced as the manager of Figueirense Futebol Clube. Sérgio, however would only stay there for six months where he led his team to the final of the Copa do Brasil before losing in the final 2–1 on aggregate to Fluminense.cite web|url=http://esporte.uol.com.br/futebol/ultimas/2007/06/06/ult59u122641.jhtm|title=Fluminense vence fora e conquista Copa do Brasil pela 1ª vez|publisher=UOL Esporte|accessdate=2008-08-12|date=2007-06-06|language=Portuguese] But, unable to maintain this consistency, he left his role later that year.cite web|url=http://www.estadao.com.br/esportes/not_esp47547,0.htm|title=Após goleada, Figueirense demite técnico Mário Sérgio|publisher=Estadão|accessdate=2008-08-12|date=2007-09-06|language=Portuguese] Only weeks after leaving the club, Sérgio found a new managerial job, this time with Botafogo, a club he had played for as a player. The job would only last until early the following month after he had only managed the team for three league matches: all of them losses.cite web|url=http://www.estadao.com.br/esportes/not_esp61596,0.htm|title=Mário Sérgio pede demissão e Cuca reassume o Botafogo|publisher=Estadão|accessdate=2008-08-12|date=2007-10-07|language=Portuguese] In 2008, after briefly working as Atlético Paranaense's manager, on September 16 he was hired as Figueirense's manager.cite web|url=http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/esporte/ult92u445415.shtml|title=Figueirense anuncia contratação do técnico Mário Sérgio|publisher=Filha Online|accessdate=2008-09-16|date=2008-09-16|language=Portuguese]

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