César Sampaio

César Sampaio
Personnel
Surname	Carlos César Sampaio Campos
birthday	March 31, 1968
place of birth	São Paulo ,  Brazil
size	177 cm
position	midfield
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1986-1991	FC Santos	83 0(2)
1991-1994	Palmeiras São Paulo	60 0(5)
1995-1998	Yokohama wing	116 (13)
1998-2000	Palmeiras São Paulo	22 0(2)
2000-2001	Deportivo La Coruña	10 0(0)
2001	Corinthians São Paulo	9 0(0)
2002	Kashiwa Reysol	26 0(3)
2003-2004	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	55 0(5)
2004	Sao Paulo FC	25 0(1)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1990-2000	Brazil	47 0(6)
1 Only league games are given.

Carlos César Sampaio Campos (born March 31, 1968 in São Paulo ) is a former Brazilian soccer player . He is one of the few players who have played with all four major São Paulo clubs ( Santos FC , Palmeiras São Paulo , Corinthians São Paulo , São Paulo FC ) during their career .

At Palmeiras and the Yokohama Wings , he is considered one of the best players in their club history. With the Brazilian national team , for which he was active over a period of ten years, he was among other things in the final of the 1998 soccer World Cup and in 1997 won the Confed Cup and the Copa America .

Club career

Career start

César Sampaio began his professional career at the traditional FC Santos , where he initially acted as a substitute for Carlos Dunga in the 1986 season . When he left the club in the following season, he continuously gained more playing time until he finally achieved the status of a regular player in the 1988 season. At the end of the 80s, he was then considered the club's greatest talent and made his debut in the Brazilian national team in 1990 . In the same year he was also chosen for the first time in the team - or as the first Santos player, for the Brazilian player of the year. Contrary to its development, the club was not very successful and remained without any title win. In 1991 Sampaio was sold to Palmeiras São Paulo, the financially strongest club in Brazil at the time thanks to the sponsorship of Parmalat .

At Palmeiras, this was followed by his rise to a successful athlete. As a key player in one of the strongest teams in the history of the Brazilian league, peppered with stars such as Zinho , Evair , Antônio Carlos Zago , Freddy Rincón , Flávio Conceição , Amaral , Roberto Carlos , Edmundo or Rivaldo , he won a total of six titles in three years was elected for the second time in the team - or player of the year in Brazil - in 1994. Contrary to public expectations, however, his strong club performance was not enough for a nomination in the final squad of Brazil at the soccer World Cup in 1994 , as coach Carlos Alberto Parreira gave preference to the Spanish legionnaire Mauro Silva of the same age .

First move to Japan

In 1995 he then moved in a package with his teammates Zinho and Evair in the J. League to the then less successful club Yokohama F. Marinos . Palmeiras justified the sale of the three stars with the high transfer fee that Yokohama paid for the players. As a result, the three Brazilians developed into the team's top performers and won the AFC Cup Winners Cup and the AFC Super Cup with the club in the first half of the year . In the following year, the team played around Sampaio as a leading player in midfield, for the first time in the history of the club for the title in the J. League, which was missed just three points behind the Kashima Antlers . In 1997, despite Evair's departure back to Brazil, the upward trend was prolonged for the time being and at the end of the first half of the season they were in second place in the table. In the second half of the season, however, there was a slump and the fall back to sixth place in the table. Nevertheless, they reached the final in the Emperor's Cup , but again had to admit defeat to the Kashima Antlers 3-0. In 1998, Zinho, the next from the Palmeiras trio, left the club, making Sampaio the last South American in the club. In order not to lose Sampaio as well, the club improved its already well-paid contract and signed two technically skilled players, Russian Igor Ledjachow and Portuguese star Paulo Futre , in order to remain competitive. In contrast to Ledjachow, who was promoted to the top scorer of his team with fifteen goals, Futre only shone through his susceptibility to injury and only came to thirteen season appearances with three goals. Since the rest of the team was characterized by rather average player quality, they slipped further to position seven in the table, but could celebrate winning the Emperor's Cup led by a strong Sampaio, who had his best season in Japan.

In 1999, the club had to pay tribute to the high financial outlay in previous years and drastically reduced the budget. Top earner Sampaio, who had just played a strong soccer World Cup for Brazil, was no longer affordable for the club.

Sampaio then decided to return to Palmeiras, where he met Evair and Zinho, who also found their way back to the club. This was followed by a weak season in the Brazilian league with table rank nine. At the international level, however, the club played big and won the Copa Libertadores for the first time in the club's history , which is also the biggest title win by Sampaio at club level.

Misunderstanding La Coruña

In 2000 Sampaio moved to Europe and was signed by the newly crowned Spanish champions Deportivo La Coruña . Right at the start he won his first title with the Galicians in the Spanish Supercup . The rest of the season was less enjoyable for the player. Despite an oversupply of mainly defensively oriented midfielders such as Donato , Aldo Duscher or Mauro Silva, La Coruña President Augusto César Lendoiro tried personally to make the move so that he could present a world star for the new season. He passed the then successful coach Javier Irureta , who demanded the commitment of another striker. The signing of the contract caused a sensation across Europe, as Londoiro stipulated a transfer fee of 10 billion Spanish peseta (the equivalent of around 60 million euros) in the contract, which was roughly in the same spheres as the record transfer fee of Luís Figo , who had just switched to Real Madrid . As a result, however, coach Irureta preferred to use the players from the championship year and mostly did not use the top earner Sampaio. In addition, Sampaio lost his form and consistently offered poor performances in his sparsely sown missions. After a year with only ten league appearances and five in the cup, the club let him move on a free transfer in order to at least save his salary.

Then there was a six-month interlude at Corinthians São Paulo , for which he only completed nine league appearances, but was one of the top performers in the Paulista championship and ultimately won it with the team.

Career end

Meanwhile 33 years old, he moved again in January 2002 to the J. League to Kashiwa Reysol , who, despite his old age, still transferred about half a million euros as a transfer fee to Corinthians. In Kashiwa, where he again met a teammate from the great Palmeiras times with Edílson , he could no longer build on the strong performances from the 1990s. Sampaio played a large part of the league games, but did not set any noteworthy accents. Kashiwa ended the season in the middle of the table, in 12th place.

In 2003 he then moved to the J. League Division 2 for the recently relegated club Sanfrecce Hiroshima . In the second division Sampaio then played a key role again and led the team with second place in the table to immediate promotion. He was also voted best player in J. League Division 2. As a result, he played for another six months in the J. League for Hiroshima before he moved back home to São Paulo to finish his career .

Meanwhile 36 years old, he again completed a strong season as a regular player, in which, however, he could not win a title. His move to FC made him one of only six players who played for all four major São Paulo clubs.

National team

On November 8, 1990 Sampaio made his debut as the award-winning player of the year in Brazil under coach Falcão in the 0-0 in the friendly against Chile in the Seleção . Then it took until December 1991 until he was nominated again for the national team (friendly match against Czechoslovakia , final score 2: 1).

As a result, under coach Carlos Alberto Parreira , he was among the narrower circle of national players, but without having a regular place. At the Copa América 1993 he was part of his country's squad for the first time in an international tournament, where Brazil failed and was eliminated in the quarter-finals on eventual winners Argentina .

In 1994 Sampaio was not included in the final tournament squad for the 1994 World Cup in the USA , where Brazil was crowned world champion, a major setback. Sampaio had had a strong season for Palmeiras and had just received the Bola de Ouro as the best player in the Brazilian league for the second time in his career. Nevertheless Parreira decided surprisingly against him and for the three legionnaires Carlos Dunga , Mauro Silva and Márcio Santos in defensive midfield.

After the missed World Cup, he achieved the status of regular player in midfield for the first time, which he did not lose until he retired from the national team in 2000.

During the Copa America 1995 he was one of the key players for the finals, but that you lost on penalties after a 1-1 in regular time with 5: 6 against Uruguay . Two years later at the 1997 Copa America , he celebrated his first title with Brazil. Another title followed in the same year by winning the Confed Cup .

At the 1998 World Cup in France he was one of the top performers in his country. Among other things, he scored the first and fastest goal of the tournament in the opening game against Scotland . After the group games, he ensured orderly conditions early on with the first two goals in the game against the Chilean national football team . In the semifinals against the Netherlands , he was then surprisingly called up as a central defender, so he could not exercise any offensive urge, but knew how to convince defensively. In the final against France , which Brazil lost 3-0, he was exchanged for Edmundo in the 75th minute for tactical reasons . Despite a strong tournament performance, he was denied admission to the All-Star Team of the World Cup.

He played five more times for Brazil before playing his farewell game against Colombia in qualifying for the 2002 World Cup .

He played a total of 49 games for Brazil between 1990 and 2000, in which he scored six goals.

After the active career

After the end of his career, he completed two university courses in management and sports marketing and worked as a commentator for Radio Jovem in São Paulo until 2006 .

In 2007 he took over his first post as sports director at the small club Pelotas EC, which rose to Campeonato Brasileiro - Série D under his management.

In 2009 he moved to Rio Claro FC , which he left in August 2009, after promotion to the Campeonato Paulista A1, within the league in the direction of Mogi Mirim EC . At Mogi Mirim, he followed the call of his old teammate Rivaldo , who had meanwhile taken over the club as president.

In February 2010, however, Sampaio was dismissed as Mogi Mirim's sports director on the official grounds that he would still have his main residence in the Rio Claro district , which would be a direct competitor of Mogi Mirim in the Paulista championship. Since Sampaio was still deeply rooted in the club, complications would always arise.

As a result, he returned to Rio Claro, for which he still works today (as of April 2010) . In April 2010, he turned down an offer from his old club, Palmeiras, to take over the vacant sports director post there, as he did not want to let Rio Claro, who had just been relegated again, down again.

successes

In the club

• 2 × Brazilian soccer champions 1993, 1994
• 3 × Campeonato Paulista : 1993, 1994, 2001
• 1 × Copa Libertadores : 1999
• 1 × Spanish Supercup winner : 2000
• 1 × Emperor's Cup : 1998
• 1 × AFC Cup Winners Cup : 1995
• 1 × Asian Super Cup : 1995
• 2 × Torneio Rio-São Paulo : 1993, 2000
• 1 × Copa Mercosur : 1998
• 1 × Copa do Brasil : 1998
• 1 × Copa da Amizade: 1992
• 1 × Mercosul Cup: 1999

In the national team

• 1 × Football World Cup Final participation: 1998
• 1 × Copa América : 1997
• 1 × Copa América Final participation: 1995
• 1 × Confederations Cup : 1997

As a player

• 2 × Bola de Ouro (Player of the Year in the Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol ) : 1990, 1993
• 2 × Team of the Year in the Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol (Journal Placar) : 1990, 1993
• 1 × Palmeiras - Team of the Century (Journal Placar) : 2006
• 1 × Player of the Year in J. League Division 2 : 2003

Web links

• Player profile at Futpedia ( Memento from April 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
• Player profile at Sambafoot ( Memento from June 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
• Image of Sampaio in the jersey of Brazil

References and footnotes

1. ↑ ^{a b} Players and Coaches in all Four Main Teams of São Paulo (English) rsssfbrasil.com, accessed on April 28, 2010
2. ↑ ^{a b} Palmeira's Team of the Century (2006) rsssfbrasil.com, accessed April 28, 2010
3. ↑ César Sampaio. In: futpedia.globo.com. Archived from the original on April 20, 2009 ; Retrieved May 3, 2010 . 
4. ↑ playerhistory.com. Archived from the original on January 3, 2010 ; Retrieved May 3, 2010 . 
5. ↑ rsssfbrasil.com. Retrieved May 3, 2010 . 
6. ↑ Pelé only holds a special award as a Santos player, but was never voted Player of the Year
7. ^ Carlos César Sampaio Campos nació en Sao Paulo (Spanish) ( Memento from June 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), renaldinhos.com, accessed on April 28, 2010
8. ↑ Fastest Goal Award: Cesar Sampaio's 3:48 still unbeaten (English) fifa.com, accessed on May 3, 2010
9. ^ Meu Time De Futebol - Cesar Sampaio (Portuguese) ( Memento from May 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) mtdf.com.br, accessed on April 28, 2010
10. ↑ felleger: César Sampaio (Portuguese) fellegger.com.br, accessed on May 3, 2010
11. ↑ César Sampaio está fora da equipe do Galo Azul (Portuguese) ( Memento of July 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), jornalcidade.uol.com.br, accessed on April 28, 2010
12. ↑ Rivaldo dispensa César Sampaio do Mogi Mirim (Portuguese) esportes.terra.com.br, accessed on April 28, 2010
13. ↑ César Sampaio agradece convite do Palmeiras, mas segue no Rio Claro (Portuguese) clicrbs.com.br, accessed on April 28, 2010
14. ↑ Sampaio diz que queda do Rio Claro deixa acerto com Palmeiras "mais difícil" (Portuguese) ( Memento from April 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) esporte.uol.com.br, accessed on April 28, 2010
15. ↑ Arenasport: César Sampaio (Portuguese) ( Memento from June 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) arenasports.com.br, accessed on April 28, 2010