Heleno de Freitas

Infobox Football biography
playername = Heleno de Freitas


fullname =
dateofbirth = 12 December 1920
cityofbirth = São João Nepomuceno
countryofbirth = Brazil
dateofdeath = 8 November 1959
cityofdeath = Barbacena
countryofdeath = Brazil
height =
position = Striker
youthyears =
youthclubs =
years = 1939-1948
1948
1949-1950
1950
1951
clubs = Botafogo
Boca Juniors
Vasco
Atlético Junior
América
caps(goals) = 235 (209)
17 (7)
1 (0)
nationalyears =
nationalteam = Brazil
nationalcaps(goals) = 18 (15)

Heleno de Freitas (born 12 December 1920 in São João Nepomuceno, Brazil; died 8 November 1959 in Barbacena) was a Brazilian footballer.

The striker spent most of his career with Botafogo, scoring 209 goals for the club, most with his head. In 1948 he transferred to Boca Juniors in Argentina, but returned to Brazil the following year, winning the 1949 Campeonato Carioca with Vasco. He ended his career with América in Rio, he played only one match for the club and it was the first and last game in Maracana. He died in 1959 in a sanatorium in Barbacena.

De Freitas scored 15 goals in 18 appearances for Brazil as the team finished runners-up in both the 1945 and 1946 Copa America championships. He was joint top goalscorer in the 1945 tournament.

=Honours=
Roca Cup champion: 1945
Rio Branco Cup champion: 1947

Rio de Janeiro State League champion: 1948, 1949, 1950

Copa América runner-up: 1945, 1946

=References= [http://www.sambafoot.co.uk/players/1953_Heleno_de_Freitas.html Heleno de Freitas at Sambafoot]