Carlos José Castilho

Carlos José Castilho , usually just Castilho , also called Carlos José de Castilho , (born November 27, 1927 in Rio de Janeiro , † February 2, 1987 ) was a Brazilian soccer goalkeeper and two-time world champion with the Brazilian national team .

Club career

Castilho played for Olaria AC in Rio de Janeiro from 1945 to 1948 before moving to Fluminense . For the top Brazilian club he played 696 games by 1965. The club's fans gave him the nickname São Castilho , meaning “Holy Castilho”. In October 2006, a bust in honor of the former number one was unveiled at Fluminense.

National team

Castilho was part of the Seleção squad at the four World Cups in 1950 , 1954 , 1958 and 1962 . In 1950 in his home country, the only 22-year-old goalkeeper was the second man behind Barbosa to become vice world champion. In 1954 in Switzerland he was between the posts in all three Brazilian games. In the quarter-final against Hungary , which went down in football history as the “Battle of Bern” - thanks to many fouls and three dismissals - Castilho lost his pants when he blocked a shot from Zoltán Czibor . Nevertheless, he was able to hold the margin from József Bozsik . Despite this individual performance, Brazil had to admit defeat to the eventual finalists 2: 4 and were eliminated from the tournament. In Sweden 1958 he wore the shirt number 1, but had to make do with the substitute role behind Gilmar again - just like four years later in Chile with the shirt number 22. The Brazilians won both tournaments.

In total, he played 29 times for the Seleção .

Castilho died on February 2, 1987 by suicide .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Carlos José Castilho in the FIFA database (English)
2. ↑ List of players with the most stakes on the Fluminense Rio de Janeiro website
3. ↑ message on the website of Fluminense
4. ↑ Oliver Noelle: The little dictionary of football records. Munich 2006, ISBN 3-426-77828-9 , p. 39 and p. 172
5. ↑ Numbers on the back and stakes according to FIFA statistics
6. ^ Lorenz Knieriem, Matthias Voigt: Football World Cup 1950 Brazil (= "AGON World Cup history." Vol. 4). AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2003, ISBN 3-89784-217-3 , p. 97.