Humberto Tozzi

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Humberto Tozzi
Personnel
Surname Humberto Barbosa Tozzi
birthday February 4, 1934
place of birth São João de Meriti ,  Brazil
date of death April 17, 1980
Place of death Rio de Janeiro ,  Brazil
size 174 cm
position striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1950-1953 São Cristóvão FR
1953-1956 SE Palmeiras
1956-1960 SS Lazio 92 (32)
1960-1961 SE Palmeiras
1961 Fluminense FC 21 (7)
1962 Portuguesa de Desportos
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1954-1955 Brazil 7 0(1)
1 Only league games are given.

Humberto Barbosa Tozzi (born February 4, 1934 in São João de Meriti , † April 17, 1980 in Rio de Janeiro ) was a Brazilian football player . The striker took part in the 1952 Olympic Games and the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland . With SE Palmeiras from São Paulo he was twice top scorer in the national championship, champion of Brazil in 1960 and finalist in the Copa Libertadores 1961 . With the SS Lazio from Rome he won the Coppa Italia in 1958 .

Career

Club career

Humberto Tozzi, started his professional career at São Cristóvão de Futebol e Regatas . There he acted from 1950 to 1953, before the talent scouts of Topvereins and then best Brazilian soccer teams belonging to Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras discovered the talent from the North and him to São Paulo piloted where Humberto most of the time under legendary coach in the wake Aymoré Moreira played together with actors such as Jair da Rosa Pinto or Francisco Rodrigues . Until 1956, Humberto Tozzi was to be found in the jersey of Palmeiras before he left his Brazilian homeland and went to Europe .

Humberto Tozzi moved to Italy's Serie A elite league , where he joined the Lazio team. There Tozzi played in the team of the English coach Jesse Carver , which consisted of players such as Arne Selmosson , Karl Aage Præst or Ermes Muccinelli , a very strong first season in European football, the Laziali to a previously unexpected third place in the table, only behind AC Milan and AC Florence . Humberto Tozzi acted as a regular player and was the most dangerous striker in the ranks of Lazio with nine goals this season behind Selmosson. After the success in Serie A in 1956/57 , these performances could not be confirmed in the following seasons, rather they deteriorated visibly. Already in 1957/58 one escaped the descent by only two points. In the same year, Lazio was very successful in the national cup. Under coach Fulvio Bernardini they reached the final of the Coppa Italia  - incidentally, the first staging of this tournament since the end of the Second World War - and prevailed there 1-0 against Fiorentina. After the twelfth place was occupied in 1958/59 , Lazios team ranked even after the end of all game days of the Serie A 1959/60 on this table rank. A year later, relegation from the top division followed after being knocked off last. At this point, however, Humberto Tozzi was no longer in Rome ; he returned to Brazil in the summer of 1960.

From 1960 Humberto was then again under contract with SE Palmeiras, where 1960 the Brazilian soccer championship could be won. In this role you were also eligible to start the Copa Campeones de América 1961 , where you qualified for the final after successes against Independiente Avellaneda from Argentina and Independiente Santa Fe from Colombia , but there with 0: 1 and 1: 1 at the Uruguayan representative and Defending champion CA Peñarol failed. Humberto Tozzi played in the first of the two finals, while coach Renganescchi did without the attacker in the second leg.

In general, Humberto Tozzi’s career at this time, although he was only 27 years old, was already in its final phase. He moved to Olaria AC in 1961 and later played for Fluminense Rio de Janeiro and the Associação Portuguesa de Desportos before ending his career in 1963 at the age of 29.

National team

In 1954 and 1955, Humberto Tozzi made a total of seven appearances in the Brazilian national soccer team . He succeeded in scoring. National coach Zezé Moreira appointed Humberto to the South American squad for the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland . After he was not used in the preliminary round, which Brazil finished second behind Yugoslavia and ahead of France and Mexico , Humberto started the quarter-finals against the Hungarian Golden Elf . In this game, which became famous as the Battle of Bern , Brazil lost 4-2 to what was probably the world's best team at the time. The game was partly characterized by brute force, on the Hungarian side József Bozsik was sent off , on the Brazilian side Nílton Santos and Humberto Tozzi got it . The latter was sent off by British referee Arthur Ellis after he kicked Gyula Lóránt in the 79th minute.

successes

1953 with 22 goals for Palmeiras
1954 with 36 goals for Palmeiras

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personal data
SURNAME Tozzi, Humberto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tozzi, Humberto Barbosa (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH São João de Meriti (RJ), Brazil
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1980
Place of death Rio de Janeiro , Brazil