Démosthenes Magalhães
Démosthenes Magalhães , better known in Brazil only as Démosthenes and in Italy as Demostene Bertini (born November 17, 1909 in Rio de Janeiro ), was a Brazilian football player.
In 1931 Démosthenes moved from Jequiá FC - the club known today as Jequiá Iate Club ("Yacht Club") from the Ilha do Governador , the island in Guanabara Bay where the airport has been on since 1945 - to Fluminense FC, where he is under coach Luís Vinhaes successor in central midfield of as a professional to Italy for Torino FC exchanged Fernando Giudicelli was.
On a visit to Rio in 1932, Giudicelli, who began a sustained career as a players' agent during this phase, convinced Démosthenes to return with him to Italy, where he could also work as a professional footballer. Since this was only possible for players with an Italian family background, so-called Oriundi , at that time , he changed his name to Demostene Bertini , which sounds Italian.
In the 1932/33 season he played with Giudicelli in Turin. There the technically gifted player got off to an excellent start, but soon ran into trouble proving his Italian background. Because of this, it could not be erected for a long time. After that, he struggled to get back to good shape and was often missed. In his three seasons he was seventh, twelfth and fourteenth with Turin, where he came to 36 league appearances.
He was then transferred to AC Sampierdarenese in Genoa . He was set up in the 1935/36 season with the club 13th and 28 times in the league.
In June 1936 he returned to Rio de Janeiro by zeppelin , which probably also describes a healthy professional income in Italy. Then a simple air ticket kistete 1,500 Reichsmarks what a tight annual German average wage corresponded (1700 RM) at that time.
In July 1936 he took part in two Fluminense friendlies, which he ran up for the club 40 times. Later in the year he returned to Jequiá FC, where he made player- coach . In its only season in professional football, the club finished last. Démosthenes played 15 times and scored three goals. In March of the following year Jequiá and Démosthenes parted ways.
Another time he was in the spotlight when he middle of the 1942er season of championship of Rio de Janeiro the Bonsucesso FC took over as coach from the same suburb. He introduced himself here with a 6-0 home defeat against Canto do Rio FC from Niterói from the other side of Guanabara Bay. In the end, as was customary at the time, Bonsucesso was last. Since there was no relegation in those years, there was no consequence. The 123 goals conceded in the 27 games of that season are record-breaking.
In 1940 Démosthenes co-founded the Club Veteranos Cariocas , an association of former soccer players from Rio, where he carried out various functions in the following years.
Web links
- Estatísticas Fluminense
- Bertini Demostene , www.enciclopediadelcalcio.it
- Bertini Demostene , Wikicalcio
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mário Filho : O negro no futebol brasileiro , 1947, p. 183. Filho used Démosthenes as an example that Brazilian footballers were more willing to give up their names than their nationality. See, for example, Fausto dos Santos and Jaguaré Bezerra de Vasconcelos , who gave up a well-paid commitment at FC Barcelona a few years earlier because of this.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Magalhães, Démosthenes |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Demosthenes; Bertini, Demostene |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Brazilian soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th November 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rio de Janeiro |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th century or 21st century |