Edmundo (soccer player, 1971)

Edmundo
Edmundo (2010)
Personnel
Surname	Edmundo Alves de Souza Neto
birthday	April 2nd 1971
place of birth	Niterói ,  Brazil
size	177 cm
position	Storm
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1990-1992	CR Vasco da Gama	23 0(8)
1993-1995	Palmeiras São Paulo	40 (20)
1995	Flamengo Rio de Janeiro	14 0(2)
1996	Corinthians São Paulo	00 0(0)
1996-1997	CR Vasco da Gama	44 (38)
1997-1999	AC Florence	37 (12)
1999-2000	CR Vasco da Gama	16 (13)
2000	FC Santos	20 (13)
2001	SSC Naples	17 0(4)
2001	Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte	12 0(3)
2002	Tokyo Verdy	31 (18)
2003	Urawa Red Diamonds	00 0(0)
2003-2004	CR Vasco da Gama	19 0(7)
2004	Fluminense Rio de Janeiro	20 0(7)
2005	Nova Iguaçu Futebol Clube	00 0(0)
2005	Figueirense FC	31 (15)
2005-2007	Palmeiras São Paulo	49 (14)
2008	CR Vasco da Gama	25 (13)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1992-2000	Brazil	39 (12)
1 Only league games are given.

Edmundo (born April 2, 1971 in Niterói ; full name Edmundo Alves de Souza Neto ) is a former Brazilian football player .

Edmundo's nickname is "O Animal" ( Portuguese for "the animal"). This was given to him because of many evictions for assault . His position was mostly that of the striker , but he also played behind the tips in attacking midfield or as a hanging tip. As famous as he was for his dropouts, his game could also be awesome. Edmundo played in the club for AC Florence and Vasco da Gama, among others . Between 1992 and 2000 he played 39 times for the Brazilian national team and scored 12 goals. During this time strikers Romario , Bebeto and, a little later, Ronaldo dominated the Brazilian attack and Edmundo was mostly a substitute. Edmundo took part in three South American championships (1993, 1995 and 1997) and scored several times in these tournaments. In 1995 he finished second with Brazil and in 1997 Brazil won the tournament and Edmundo scored in the final. He took part in the 1998 World Cup and had a chance to be used as a striker in the final against France, as Ronaldo fell ill under unexplained circumstances before the final. Ronaldo played anyway and Edmundo only used in the 74th minute. Brazil clearly lost 3-0 against hosts France .

“Eight or nine hours before the final, he had a convulsion in the hotel. A terrible scene, we thought he was going to die. (...) It was the doctors who examined him, found nothing and gave him the green light. (...) In the dressing room it suddenly got wild, we thought Ronaldo was risking his life - and we had prepared ourselves with Edmundo. I wouldn't say it's Ronaldo's fault that we lost the final. But from an emotional point of view we would have been more stable at this point if Edmundo had played. We weren't even at 50 percent. "

- Edmundo's team-mate César Sampaio on the events leading up to the 1998 World Cup final

In 1999 he was sentenced to four and a half years in a semi-open prison for an accident in which three people died. However, he only spent one night in prison by taking advantage of all legal remedies. In June 2011, the Brazilian police arrested him in São Paulo. Edmundo will most likely face a multi-year prison sentence.

successes

Club

• State Championship of the State of Rio de Janeiro : 1992
• State Championship of the State of São Paulo : 1993, 1994
• Rio-São Paulo tournament : 1993
• Brazilian champion : 1993 , 1994 , 1997

International

• Vice Copa America 1995
• Copa America : 1997
• Vice World Champion 1998

Individual

• Bola de Prata : 1993, 1997
• Bola de Ouro : 1997
• Chuteira de Ouro : 1997
• Copa do Brasil 2008 top scorer
• Brazilian top scorer : 1997

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "We thought he was going to die": What happened to Ronaldo before the World Cup final? , kicker.de, April 26, 2020, accessed on April 29, 2020.
2. ↑ Police arrest ex-striker Edmundo from Brazil . news.ch. June 16, 2011. Retrieved June 16, 2011.