Adhemar Pimenta

Adhemar Pimenta
Personnel
birthday	April 12, 1896
place of birth	Rio de Janeiro ,  Brazil
date of death	August 26, 1970
Place of death	Rio de Janeiro ,  Brazil
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1934-1936	Bangu AC
1935	State selection of Rio de Janeiro ( DF )
1936-1937	Madureira AC
1936-1937	São Cristóvão AC
1936-1938	Brazil
1939	Madureira AC
1939	State selection from Pernambuco
1940-1942	Botafogo FC
1942	Brazil
1943	Santos FC
1943	Bonsucesso FC
1943	State selection from Minas Gerais
1945	Bonsucesso FC
1947	São Cristóvão AC
1948	America FC (RJ)

Adhemar Pimenta (modern spelling Ademar ~ , born April 12, 1896 in Rio de Janeiro , † August 26, 1970 ibid.) Was a Brazilian soccer coach and sports journalist. He led Brazil to third place at the World Cup in 1938 and to second and third place at the South American Championships in 1936 and 1942, respectively. He led the Madureira AC to the runner-up in Rio de Janeiro in 1936. The most important clubs he coached were Botafogo FC and Santos FC in the early 1940s . In later years he worked as a sports journalist for several radio stations in Rio de Janeiro, reporting on the 1966 World Cup, among other things.

Career

Education and experience as a footballer

Ademar Pimenta trained at the prestigious Colégio Pedro II in São Cristóvão in the north of Rio de Janeiro. He studied law.

After he started for the football team of the Colégio Pedro II at the age of 14, he later played for several small clubs in Rio such as Palmeiras, Atlantic and Mangueira. In the late 1920s, it is said, he also played for America FC's top Rio team . Later he was technical director at AMEA , one of the two soccer associations established in Rio after a schism in the 1920s.

First stations as a trainer

He began his coaching career in August 1934 at Bangu AC in the west of Rio de Janeiro, who competed in the football world of Rio, which was divided by a renewed schism, for the FMD association, which was committed to amateurism , while numerous other clubs organized in the Liga Carioca de Futebol . Pimenta also personally advocated amateurism at that time. At Bangu he was remembered as competent but not miraculous.

In 1935, together with Harry Welfare and Adelio Martins , he oversaw the state selection of Rio de Janeiro, at that time the federal district at the then important Brazilian Championship of the states, which was then generally known as the Brazilian Championship.

In 1936 he took over the training of Madureira AC in the north of Rio, which also played in the FMD. There he immediately achieved a respectable success when he and the team won the "Torneio Inicio", a blitz tournament held on one day every year at the beginning of the season. He confirmed the success with the runner-up in the same year. In the decider for the title in December against CR Vasco da Gama , Madureira won the first game 1-0 and lost the second 2-1. Another 1: 2 in the third game in March 1937, the title finally went to Vasco.

After the first two games against Vasco he was entrusted with the management of the national team at the South American Championships 1937 , which was held from December 1936 to February 1937 in Buenos Aires . After the regular games of the tournament, Brazil were tied with Argentina on points. Brazil lost the decisive game that was necessary 2-0 after extra time against the hosts in a game marked by adverse circumstances, which was interrupted twice due to unrest. Brazil had to do without defender Domingos da Guia, who was then playing for CA Boca Juniors , and star striker Leônidas da Silva at this tournament .

Later in the year Pimenta was coach of São Cristóvão AC where he stayed until 1938. With the club he took part in the championship of the now united under the umbrella of the LFRJ , general professional championship of Rio, where he finished fourth in 1937. In the coming year it was only enough for the penultimate place among nine participants. At the end of 1938 São Cristóvão went on a trip abroad and was defeated in Argentina at CA Newell's Old Boys with 2: 4 and in the Chilean capital Santiago in the game for the opening of the new Estadio Nacional de Chile against CSD Colo-Colo with 3: 6.

World Championship 1938

He also looked after Brazil at the 1938 World Cup in France. A novelty was the 30-day training camp in Caxambú in Minas Gerais , which at that time was a very difficult 14-hour journey from Rio de Janeiro, before the tournament, in which, however, wine, women and card games, all with the active participation of Pimenta , were also on the agenda.

At the tournament itself, Brazil won after extra time against Poland around striker Ernst Wilimowski 6: 5 after extra time. Against the vice world champions Czechoslovakia to goalkeeper František Plánička and Oldřich Nejedlý , Brazil only prevailed after a rough play-off in the Leônidas da Silva, who was injured with eight goals to become the tournament's top scorer. In the semifinals, the exhausted, weakened Seleção finally lost after a stupid penalty caused by Domingos da Guia with 1: 2 against the defending champions Italy. In the end, Brazil won the game for third place against Sweden 4-2.

After the tournament, Pimenta received numerous criticisms - some rightly, some not. One point of criticism was that Pimenta did not use the modern World Cup system , but played a traditional 2-3-5, albeit in a similar interpretation to the metodo of the Italian coach Vittorio Pozzo . Many said that the World Cup system with the third defender , Izidor Kürschner , who was also involved in the early preparation of the Brazilians, first brought in at CR Flamengo in Brazil from 1937 onwards, with ten goals conceded in five games would have. But then, it was precisely the third defender who was the furrier in large parts of the sports press in Rio, above all Ary Barroso (as a sports journalist one of the demiurges of the trade of that time, as a musician, author of the world success Aquarela do Brasil ). João Saldanha , a player in the 1940s and later national coach, but who became particularly important as a sports journalist, commented uncomprehendingly: "We played with two defenders at the 1938 World Cup after the offside rule had been modified thirteen years earlier."

Later coaching positions

In 1939 he returned to Madureira again. In September he was hired by the Federaçäo Pernambucana de Desportos as coach of the state selection of Pernambuco for the championship of the states, where he was, however, defeated in the semi-finals in Rio against the hosts.

In 1940 he was hired by Botafogo FC as the successor to the furrier who had meanwhile been fired there, but could not fulfill any big dreams there either and was replaced by Carvalho Leite in 1943 .

From January to February 1942 he was also again at the helm of the national team, which he led through the South American Championship in 1942 in Montevideo , where Brazil came third behind the hosts Uruguay and Argentina.

In January 1943, after leaving Botafogo, he was involved with Santos FC , where he had to leave again in May 1943 after clashes with players. In July he had a short stay with Bonsucesso FC in Rio de Janeiro. From August to November he was the coach of the Minas Gerais national team . In 1945 and 1947 he worked again at Bonsucesso and São Cristóvão.

His last coaching position at America FC in Rio was memorably short . There he only led the training on September 29, 1948, before a new club management brought about in internal turmoil revoked his contract.

Sports journalist

After he had already worked for Radio Nacional in 1940 , he worked for the Emissora Continental station from 1948 and then for Radio Clube do Brasil in Rio, where he worked in particular as a technical commentator for live broadcasts. His commitment to Radio Mauá , where he last reported on the 1966 World Cup in England , was particularly long-term . While reporting on the final between Germany and England, he had to seek medical treatment.

After his return to Rio, he withdrew from his journalistic work in poor health. Adhemar Pimenta, who last lived in an apartment in Botafogo, died shortly after the Brazilian World Cup triumph in Mexico on August 26, 1970 in a hospital in central Rio de Janeiro at the age of 74. He was buried in the Inhaúma cemetery in northern Rio de Janeiro.

credentials

• Obituaries in Jornal do Brasil , Folha de S. Paulo , et al. (1970), various daily press
• O Brasil de todas as copas , Ministério do Esporte, Brasília, 2012
• Copa do Mundo - 1938 , Futebol & Copas do Mund (as of September 2, 2019)
• 1935 , bangu.net (as of September 2, 2019)
• Jonathan Wilson: Inverting the Pyramid , Orion Books, London, 2008