Branco (soccer player)

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Branco
Personnel
Surname Cláudio Ibrahim Vaz Leal
birthday April 4th 1964
place of birth Bagé ,  Brazil
position Full-back (left)
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1980-1981 Internacional Porto Alegre 15 (2)
1981-1986 Fluminense Rio de Janeiro 46 (1)
1986-1988 →  Brescia Calcio  (loan) 50 (2)
1988-1991 FC Porto 60 (7)
1991-1993 Genoa 1893 71 (8)
1993-1994 Gremio Porto Alegre 06 (1)
1995 Flamengo Rio de Janeiro
1995 Corinthians São Paulo 20 (4)
1996 Middlesbrough FC 09 (0)
1997 MetroStars 11 (1)
1998 Fluminense Rio de Janeiro
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1985-1995 Brazil 72 (9)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2009 Aris Thessaloniki
1 Only league games are given.

Branco (born April 4, 1964 in Bagé ; actually Cláudio Ibrahim Vaz Leal ) is a former Brazilian football player .

Career

society

Left defender Branco began his professional career in 1980 at SC Internacional in Porto Alegre . In the same year, the club managed to move into the final of the Copa Libertadores for the first time in club history . There the opponent was Nacional Montevideo from Uruguay . After 0-0 and 0-1, however, they left the field as a loser. In 1982 Branco came to Fluminense Rio de Janeiro and played there until 1986. With the Fluzão , he collected numerous titles. Between 1983 and 1985 the team won the Rio de Janeiro State Championship three times in a row . More important, however, was the Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol , the Brazilian championship, in 1984. After the 1986 World Cup , he moved to Europe to Brescia Calcio , where he was able to gain first experience in European football. After Brescia could not hold the class in 1986/87, Branco played second class with the club the following season. The recovery was missed, however. In 1988 he decided to transfer to FC Porto , where he played until 1991. In his second year with the Portuguese, the national championship was won. A season earlier, Porto had already been successful in the competition for the Taça de Portugal . In the final on June 19, 1988 Vitória Guimarães was beaten 1-0. This was Branco's first European title. In 1991, in his final season for Porto, this success was repeated.

In the summer of 1991, the defensive player moved back to Serie A for Genoa 1893 , which played in the 1991/92 season in the UEFA Cup . There they eliminated teams like Liverpool and Steaua Bucharest before failing in the semifinals at the eventual winner Ajax Amsterdam after 2: 3 and 1: 1. In the league, however, it was only enough to a disappointing 14th place. In the following year, the team finished the season marginally better in 13th place. In 1993 Branco went back to Brazil and hired Grêmio Porto Alegre . There he could not build on the achievements of the past days. Although he was involved in winning the state championship in Rio Grande do Sul in 1993, but was no longer used regularly. In 1995 he played briefly with Flamengo Rio de Janeiro , in the same year with Corinthians São Paulo , tried in England in 1996 with Middlesbrough FC and in 1997 with the New Jersey MetroStars . There were always short guest appearances. His last stop was in 1998 in Fluminense Rio de Janeiro. Then he gave up the active career. Especially in his last years, when he could no longer call up his qualities regularly, the defensive player was criticized for allegedly being overweight.

National team

1985 Branco was appointed to the senior national team of Brazil for the first time . A year later he was in the squad for the 1986 World Cup in Mexico , where Branco had converted his penalty in the quarter-finals against France on penalties , but was still eliminated with the team. Overall, he was used in all five games. The left-back made his World Cup debut on June 1, 1986, against the selection of Spain . In 1989 he was part of the squad that was to win the 1989 Copa America . He was used in seven out of seven possible matches in the starting XI and was only substituted once. The 1990 World Cup in Italy , where he was again placed on the left back of the Brazilian national team, was even more disappointing than the previous World Cup. The Brazilians were eliminated in the round of 16 against Argentina. Branco later claimed that he had been the victim of an Argentine trick: while the game was interrupted, the Argentine team masseur handed him a bottle of water that was said to have been mixed with a sedative. Branco got sick after enjoying the water. Maradona later confirmed Branco's version, saying that his coach Carlos Bilardo was behind it. Two years after winning the Copa America, they wanted to defend the title in 1991 . However, this did not succeed and Branco was only runner-up behind Argentina with the Seleção . With three hits Branco was the best shooter on his team.

At the Football World Cup in 1994 , Branco suddenly found himself on the bench in Brazil. The younger Leonardo Araújo had overtaken him on the left defensive side. He experienced his brilliant comeback when Leonardo was expelled from the field in the round of 16 against the USA after a brutal elbow check and was suspended for the rest of the tournament. Branco played against the Netherlands in the quarter-finals and became the match winner when he scored the 3-2 winner with a free kick from over 30 meters away against Ed de Goey . In the final against Italy , he safely converted his penalty in the penalty shoot-out and became soccer world champion. Branco played 72 times for Brazil and, with his dreaded hard free kicks, was a forerunner in the left full-back position of Roberto Carlos , who succeeded him in the Brazilian national team.

Career after football

After his active career, Branco stayed with football. Between 2007 and 2009 he worked as a junior manager in the youth department of his former club Fluminense. Before that, in 2006 he was responsible for the national team's youngsters.

successes

society

Fluminense

postage

Gremio

National team

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Match statistics: Spain - Brazil 0: 1 on weltfussball.de
  2. ↑ Copa América 1989 on rsssf.com
  3. ↑ Article on the "water affair"
  4. ↑ in the Berliner Zeitung
  5. ↑ Copa América 1991 on rsssf.com
  6. ↑ Match statistics: Netherlands - Brazil 2: 3 on weltfussball.de
personal data
SURNAME Branco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vaz Leal, Cláudio Ibrahim (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH April 4th 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Bagé , Brazil