Amarildo

Amarildo Tavares da Silveira , known as Amarildo (born June 29, 1939 in Campos dos Goytacazes , RJ ) is a former Brazilian football player and coach . The 1962 soccer world champion also had successes with Italian clubs.

Live and act

The striker Amarildo played briefly at the beginning of his career in 1958 for Flamengo Rio de Janeiro before he joined the club from the neighboring district of Botafogo for four years . During his time at Botafogo, together with Garrincha , Nílton Santos , Didi , Mário Zagallo and other greats of Brazilian football history, he won the state championship in Rio de Janeiro twice - where he was top scorer in 1961 with 18 goals - and the Rio-São Paulo tournament in 1962 where he was the top scorer with eight goals. For Botafogo, Amarildo scored a total of 136 goals in 231 games.

World Championship 1962

With these achievements, Amarildo also qualified for the 1962 World Cup in Chile . Coach Vicente Feola took him as a substitute. The main position was occupied by Pelé . Brazil won their opening game 2-0 against Mexico. In the second game there was only enough for a 0: 0 draw, but worse weighed in the eyes of many, to Pele that in this game a hamstring drew upon who should set it for the rest of the tournament out of action. This was the big chance for Amarildo, who was not yet 23 years old. In the 4-3-3 system of the Brazilians he was used as a right winger in the offensive row alongside Vavá and Mário Zagallo . In the third and final group game, Spain was on the program. Here Brazil could not lose against the nominally quite strong Spaniards, who competed with numerous players from the European top team Real Madrid in the squad, as they would otherwise have been eliminated. After 35 minutes, the Iberians took a 1-0 lead through midfielder Adelardo Rodríguez . The Brazilians had to wait until the 72nd minute for Amarildo to equalize. A quarter of an hour later, it was Amarildo again, who made everything clear and made the final score 2-1 with a header. Amarildo's first appearance in a World Cup match was a complete success.

Brazil defeated England 3-1 in the quarter-finals and a 4-2 win against Chile brought the defending champions back into the final. Here again Czechoslovakia was waiting, which with its strong defensive line was already an uncomfortable opponent in the group phase. Josef Masopust put the Czechoslovaks in the lead after 15 minutes, underscoring his performance that should help him win the title of European Footballer of the Year . It was again Amarildo who - just two minutes later - equalized for the Brazilians. In the second half, Zito and Vavá scored after the unusual uncertainties of the otherwise outstanding goalkeeper Viliam Schrojf and thus secured the second and so far last title defense in the history of the football World Cup. The young Amarildo played a major role in this and can be counted among the best players in the tournament.

Career in Italy

In the middle of 1963 Botafogo traveled to Europe, where Amarildo scored the decisive goals for the tournament victory over RSC Anderlecht and Racing Paris at the Tournoi International de Paris , a private invitation tournament at the time . Botafogo traveled back to Rio without Amarildo, because the latter transferred to the newly crowned European Cup winner AC Milan . In Serie A, AC Milan did not know how to convince in these years, despite a formally good offensive series to which Amarildo's compatriot Mazzola, who played in Italy under his real name José Altafini , belonged. Milan took places in the upper midfield in these four years. Amarildo itself started well. In the first two years he was still high on the goalscorer list with 14 and 15 goals respectively, in 1965 he was even second, so he scored just two goals in each of the following two seasons. In 1967 he scored the winning goal to make it 1-0 in the final of the Italian Cup in Rome against Padova at the beginning of the second half. After that success, Amarildo moved on to Fiorentina while the Milanese were preparing to win the European Cup Winners ' Cup.

Amarildo in Italy - season, club, games, goals
1963-1964	Milan	31	14th
1964-1965	Milan	27	15th
1965-1966	Milan	24	2
1966-1967	Milan	25th	2
1967-1968	Fiorentina	17th	5
1968-1969	Fiorentina	25th	6th
1969-1970	Fiorentina	20th	5
1970-1971	Roma	21st	7th
1971-1972	Roma	12	3

At the new club, Amarildo's marksmanship increased a bit and in 1969 he was allowed to celebrate the Italian soccer championship with AC Florence - for the Florentines it was the second and so far last championship title. After he was sent off the field three times in his third season at Fiorentina, he moved to the capital for AS Roma in 1970 and achieved placements in the upper midfield. After 202 games in Serie A with 58 goals and nine field references unusual for an offensive player, he temporarily left Italy after the 1971/72 season and returned to Brazil, where he joined the CR Vasco da Gama . In 1974 he ended his playing career there by winning the Brazilian championship .

Trainer

He then became a coach. He worked here in Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates, among others . From 1990 to 1992 he was the assistant coach of Sebastião Lazaroni at his former club, Fiorentina . He also coached some less important Italian clubs.

Amarildo, who last lived in Florence , returned to Rio de Janeiro in 2007. He soon complained about the decline of Brazilian ball art: “Technique practically zero”, he remarked in an interview with ESPN Brazil. After he was originally head coach Carlos Roberto de Carvalho at America FC in Rio de Janeiro as an assistant, he inherited this in January 2008. He was sacked within a week after the team lost 4-2 to Volta Redonda FC in the national championship .

Private

Amarildo was nicknamed the "possessed". He is married to an Italian woman with whom he has two daughters and a son.

statistics

National team

• 23 games / 9 goals

societies

• 1957 Goytacaz FC , Campos dos Goytacazes , RJ
• 1958 Flamengo Rio de Janeiro
• 1959–1963 Botafogo FR
• 1963–1967 AC Milan
• 1967–1970 AC Florence
• 1970–1972 AS Rome
• 1973–1974 CR Vasco da Gama

• Italy, Serie A : 202 games - 56 goals - 9 sent off

successes

• World Champion : 1962
• Coppa Italia : 1966/67 with AC Milan
• Italian champion : 1968/69 with Fiorentina
• Rio-São Paulo tournament : 1962
• National championship of Rio de Janeiro : 1961, 1962 (with Botafogo)
• Championship of Brazil : 1974 with Vasco da Gama

Coaching stations

• 1974–1978: Fiorentina (youth)
• 1978–1981: Botafogo (youth)
• 1981–1983: Sorso Calcio, Sardinia, (5th division)
• 1984–1987: Espérance Sportive Tunis
• 1987–1988: Rondinella Firenze (4th division)
• 1988–1990: FC Turris 1944, Torre del Greco (4th division)
• 1990–1992: AC Florence (assistant coach)
• July 1992: Al Ain
• 2007-2008: America FC , Rio de Janeiro

Web links

• Milton Neves: "Amarildo (ex-Botafogo e seleção de 62)" ( Memento of May 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
• AMARILDO "El Garoto" (Italian, richly illustrated)
• FIFA.com, December 2, 2008: "Amarildo, like a man possessed" ( Memento of December 5, 2008 on the Internet Archive )