Geraldo da Rocha Carvalho

Geraldo da Rocha Carvalho , usually just called Géo for short (born July 13, 1932 in Recife ( PE ); † October 18, 1986 ibid), was a Brazilian football player . With Sport Recife and SE Palmeiras , he won three national championships in Brazil in the 1950s. With Sporting Lisbon he won the championship and cup as well as the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1964. After an injury, he let his career fade away at various Belgian second division clubs , including Cercle Brugge , until the early 1970s .

Life

The striker, who is usually used on the left wing, originally played for Sport Recife between 1953 and 1954 . In 1955 he had a short interlude at Botafogo FC in Ribeirão Preto in the state of São Paulo. In the same year he returned to sport and won the national championship of Pernambuco with the club in 1955 and 1956. Between 1958 and 1960 he played for the SE Palmeiras team in São Paulo, known at the time because of their numerous prominent acquisitions , who succeeded in 1959 to win the state championship of São Paulo and thus to break the hegemony of FC Santos around Pelé at short notice. To determine the master of 1959, three play-offs were necessary, which were played in January 1960 in the Estádio do Pacaembu in São Paulo. Géo was only used in the first game, which was directed by the Austrian referee Stefan Walter Glanz, which ended 1: 1. In the other two games - which ended 2: 2 and 2: 1 - coach Oswaldo Brandão Leonardo Colella “Nardo” preferred. The national players Djalma Santos and Chinesinho are among Géo's better-known players during his time at Palmeiras .

In mid-1960 he moved to Portugal to Sporting Lisbon together with the Palmeiras goalkeeper Aníbal Saraiva Júnior . After it was only enough for second place in the championship in the first year, 1961/62 succeeded under the coaches Otto Glória and Júlio Cernadas Pereira "Juca" the title win. In season, won out by a Sporting 4: 0 final victory under Juca against Vitória Guimarães winning the Cup . At the side of the "great captain" Fernando Mendes , Hilário Conceição and João Morais , he succeeded in the quarter-finals of the 1963/64 European Cup Winners' Cup in a 4-1 away defeat against Manchester United - with Bobby Charlton and George Best , among others 5-0 win in the second leg, to which he contributed the third goal, to catch up. In the replay of the final against MTK Budapest , after a 3: 3 in the first game, the well-known corner goal by Morais, o Cantinho do Morais , was enough for Sporting to win the only European title so far. A protracted ankle injury meant Géo's farewell to big football at the end of the season.

Géo then joined the Belgian second division team Racing White in Brussels for a year . There followed two seasons at KSV Sottegem under coach Urbain Braems . From 1968 to 1970 he played with Cercle Brugge in the second division, before between 1970 and 1972 his professional career with third division Racing Jet Brussels or one of its predecessor clubs ended. It is reported that he also worked at the lower-class FC Steenhuize.

Web links

Raphael Cavaco, José Eustáquio Rodrigues Alves: Géo - Ex-ponta-esquerda do Palmeiras , Terceiro Tempo: Que fim levou ?, as of December 14, 2012.
Géo - Um canhoto com excelente técnica , Sporting Canal, as of December 14, 2012.
Géo , Jogadores do Palmeiras, 4th July 2012.
Carvalho Geo , CercleMuseum, as of December 14, 2012.
Geraldo da Rocha Carvalho in the database of weltfussball.de

References and comments

↑ His date of birth is often given as May 13, 1935, especially sources that refer to Sporting. Sources from Palmeiras and Belgium report July 13, 1932. Sporting sources state that he died "at the age of 54". The life data of the Belgian sources would confirm this. It is possible that the player “rejuvenated” himself a bit before moving to Europe by increasing his market value. Raphael Cavaco (Terceiro Tempo) says he is living in Ibiúna in the hinterland of São Paulo these days and still follows regional football there. He is in good health, lives with his third wife and has a total of six children.
↑ See also: Stefan Walter Glanz - Ex-árbitro de futebol . He was considered a good referee and possibly counted among the European referees, like the German Horst Herden , who went to Brazil in the 1950s and hoped for a better living as a professional referee .
↑ Racing White has the root number 47 in Belgian directories

personal data
SURNAME	Carvalho, Geraldo da Rocha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Géo; Carvalho, Geo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Brazilian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH	July 13, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH	Recife , Pernambuco, Brazil
DATE OF DEATH	October 18, 1986
Place of death	Recife , Pernambuco, Brazil

[1] His date of birth is often given as May 13, 1935, especially sources that refer to Sporting. Sources from Palmeiras and Belgium report July 13, 1932. Sporting sources state that he died "at the age of 54". The life data of the Belgian sources would confirm this. It is possible that the player “rejuvenated” himself a bit before moving to Europe by increasing his market value. Raphael Cavaco (Terceiro Tempo) says he is living in Ibiúna in the hinterland of São Paulo these days and still follows regional football there. He is in good health, lives with his third wife and has a total of six children.

[2] See also: Stefan Walter Glanz - Ex-árbitro de futebol . He was considered a good referee and possibly counted among the European referees, like the German Horst Herden , who went to Brazil in the 1950s and hoped for a better living as a professional referee .

[3] Racing White has the root number 47 in Belgian directories