Coutinho (football player, 1943)

Coutinho
Coutinho (1962)
Personnel
Surname	Antônio Wilson Vieira Honorio
birthday	June 11, 1943
place of birth	Piracicaba ,  Brazil
date of death	March 11, 2019
position	Center Forward
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1958-1968	FC Santos	457 (370)
1968	EC Vitória
1969	Portuguesa
1970	FC Santos
1971	Atlas Guadalajara
1971-1972	Bangu AC
1973	Saad EC
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1960-1965	Brazil	15 (6)
1 Only league games are given.

Coutinho , real name Antônio Wilson Vieira Honório (born June 11, 1943 in Piracicaba , † March 11, 2019 in Santos , São Paulo , Brazil ), was a Brazilian football player . He was one of the stars of the team of FC Santos around Pelé , which dominated the football stadiums of the world in the early 1960s, and is considered the best center forward in the history of the club.

career

As a 13-year-old, Lula , the coach of FC Santos , brought him from the province to the up-and-coming club in the port city. As a 16-year-old, the burly Coutinho played in the first team and soon developed together with Pelé into one of the best striker duos of all time.

As early as 1959 he was in the final line-up of Santos at the first national competition in Brazil, the Taça Brasil , where Santos, however , drew the short straw against the EC Bahia . The next five trophies of the competition should secure the kicker from the port city, as well as the victory in the Torneio Rio-São Paulo of the same year. In the decisive 3-0 win against Vasco da Gama from Rio, the not quite 16-year-old Coutinho netted twice.

Overall, the center forward, who earned the nickname of the "genius of the small space" ( gênio da pequena área ) due to his dribbling strength in the smallest of spaces, scored a total of 370 goals in 457 competitive games for Santos. He scored two important goals in the 2-1 away win in Montevideo against Uruguay's champions CA Peñarol in the Copa Libertadores final of 1962. The following year he contributed three goals to the 5-3 overall win in the finals against the Boca Juniors from Buenos Aires .

He scored two goals in the legendary 1962 World Cup finals against SL Benfica from Lisbon, left winger Pepe , another Santos star of those years, scored one goal, but Pelé stole with five goals in an 8: 4 overall victory against Eusébio's team all the show. When Santos defeated AC Milan in the 1963 World Cup, Coutinho did not score, but had the satisfaction with his team against José Altafini , who was also born in Piracicaba , who was still world champion with Brazil in 1958 and now star alongside his compatriot Amarildo and Gianni Rivera Northern Italian was to have got the upper hand.

Until the end of the 1960s, Coutinho celebrated even more great successes with Santos and was one of the top performers of one of the most outstanding club teams in football history. With the club he also went on many tours abroad, often to Europe. They were a crucial source of income for the club in that era and were of crucial importance in keeping the world-class squad together for years.

National team

Coutinho played 15 times for the Brazilian national soccer team between 1960 and 1965 , scoring six goals. He was also part of the 1962 team that won the world title in Chile . He was not used, however, because he injured himself before the start of the tournament, whereupon his place on the team went to the experienced Vavá , who had already been involved in 1958 in Sweden when he won the first title.

End of career

In 1969 Coutinho moved to the EC Vitória in Bahia , but in 1969 he moved on to the Portuguesa in São Paulo. There, too, it only lasted for a short time, and Coutinho, who was already physically on the "stronger" side in those years, returned shortly to Santos in 1970 to the site of his great successes. Already in 1971 he was in the pay of the Mexican first division club Atlas Guadalajara , but in the same year he could be found again at Bangu AC in Rio de Janeiro. His career ended in 1973 at the lower-class Saad EC in the southern São Paulo suburb of São Caetano .

Later years

In later years, Coutinho was employed as a youth coach with the municipality of Santos . There also the later underwent Bremer Gustavo Nery and the short term at VfL Wolfsburg playing Fernando Baiano his training.

Most recently, Coutinho was once again a coach at Jabaquara AC , one of Santos' traditional clubs.

Later on, Coutinho liked to step into the public eye, and when the opportunity arose, he kept playing with traditional teams from his FC Santos. Again and again these games brought him back to the venerable Vila Belmiro stadium , the site of his great triumphs.

successes

• World Championship : 1962
• World Cup : 1962, 1963
• Copa Libertadores : 1962 , 1963
  • Top scorer: 1962 (6 goals)
• Taça Brasil : 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965
• Torneio Rio-São Paulo : 1953, 1963, 1964, 1966
  • Top scorer: 1961, (9 goals), 1964 (9)
• São Paulo State Championship : 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968

Web links

• Coutinho in the database of weltfussball.de
• Coutinho in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
• Coutinho in the database of sambafoot.com (English)
• Milton Neves: Coutinho (o maior número 9 do mundo). (No longer available online.) In: miltonneves.com.br. June 11, 2008, archived from the original on June 12, 2008 (Portuguese). 
• Quem era Pelé, quem era Coutinho? (No longer available online.) In: sambafoot.com. March 28, 2005, archived from the original on July 19, 2010 (Portuguese). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marcelo Leme de Arruda: Torneio Rio-São Paulo 1959. (No longer available online.) In: RSSSFBrazil.com . January 25, 2009; Archived from the original on January 29, 2009 ; Retrieved March 14, 2019 (Portuguese).