Mário Zagallo

Mário Zagallo
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Personal information
Full name Mário Jorge Lobo Zagallo
Date of birth August 9, 1931 (1931-08-09) (age 80)
Place of birth Maceió, Brazil
Height 1.67 m (5 ft 5 12 in)
Playing position Inside Forward, Left Winger
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
19481949 America
19501958 Flamengo
19581965 Botafogo
National team
19581964 Brazil 33 (5)
Teams managed
1966 Botafogo
19671968 Brazil
1969 Botafogo
19701971 Brazil
19711972 Fluminense
19721973 Flamengo
1974 Brazil
1975 Botafogo
1976 Kuwait
19771978 Botafogo
1979 Al-Hilal
19801981 Vasco da Gama
19811984 Saudi Arabia
19841985 Flamengo
19861987 Botafogo
19881989 Bangu
19891990 United Arab Emirates
19901991 Vasco da Gama
19911994 Brazil (assistant)
19941998 Brazil
19992000 Portuguesa
2001 Flamengo
20032006 Brazil (assistant)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 9 August 2011.

Appearances (Goals).

National team caps and goals correct as of 9 August 2011

Mário Jorge Lobo Zagallo (born August 9, 1931 in Maceió) is a Brazilian former football player and manager.


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Biography

Mário Jorge Lobo Zagallo was born in Maceió, Alagoas, to a family of Lebanese and Italian heritage.

Zagallo started his football career with América in 1948, and he later played for Flamengo and Botafogo.[1]

He was the first footballer to win the World Cup as a player (1958, 1962), as a manager (1970), and as assistant coach (World Cup 1994), all with the Brazilian national team. He also coached his country to a fourth-place finish in the 1974 World Cup and to a second-place finish in the 1998 World Cup.[2]

Zagallo guided the United Arab Emirates to their first World Cup in 1990, but was dismissed from his post before the tournament. Zagallo was assistant coach (as in 1994, the main coach was Carlos Alberto Parreira) of the Brazilian team in the 2006 FIFA World Cup, which was eliminated by France.

As a player, Zagallo was the left-forward of the Brazilian teams in the Cups of 1958 and 1962; he scored goals in both tournaments, including one in the final against the Swedish team, in 1958. What he lacked in physical stature, Zagallo compensated with exquisite technique and by always being the first man back to defend if his team lost the ball.

In 1970, Zagallo assumed the national team after the previous coach João Saldanha resigned alleging that he was suffering external pressures to include players in the team. Zagallo had the taskand succeeded in performing itof finding a place in the team for a group of outstanding players such as Pelé, Gérson, Tostão, Jairzinho and Rivelino. In his 1977 autobiography, Pelé writes that Zagallo initially restricted his team from playing their attacking game at the 1970 World Cup. Based on a chess format, Zagallo organized a sophisticated method, which he ultimately had to abandon due to player complaints. His side won all six of their matches, scoring 19 times in the process. It was the first time football had witnessed a 5-3-2 formation that could seamlessly transform itself into a 3-5-2 and back again.

On July 23, 2001 the Brazilian football team was defeated (0-2) in the quarter-final of the 2001 Copa America tournament by the low-ranked (and last minute invitee) Honduras. Zagallo, stunned, stated that he never thought to live long enough to see the powerful Brazil being defeated by Honduras.

He is famously superstitious about the number 13,[3] believing that the 1958 and 1994 World Cups were special for him (and therefore for Brazil), because 5+8=13 and 9+4=13. Regarding the 1994 victory, he used to state that the phrase Brasil Campeão ("Champions Brazil") has 13 letters.

After being introduced by Cláudio Coutinho in 1978, Zagallo was one of the managers to fully use attacking full backs, a concept he has always remained loyal toas the importance of Cafu, Leonardo and Roberto Carlos to the Seleçaos forward play in 1994 and 1998 stands to prove.

Quotes

  • "I accept criticism, but what hurts is mockery. In Germany, I was elected the best coach in the world. In Brazil, I'm ridiculed."
  • "I've lived football for 50 years, and this is my happiest moment. After 40 years, our flag will tremble again in Europe"
  • "You gonna have to stand me!"
  • "He was one of the greatest Brazilian players of his generation and, after winning the World Cup four times, he has left a permanent mark on Brazilian football. It is an honour for me to have worked with him" - Ronaldo
  • "Brasil campeão (champions Brazil), has 13 letters!"


Honours

Brazil Honours as Player and Manager

Minor Honours

Player

Botafogo

Manager

Botafogo

References


External links


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