Jaguaré Bezerra de Vasconcelos

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Jaguaré Bezerra de Vasconcelos (born May 14, 1905 in Rio de Janeiro , † August 27, 1946 ( uncertain ) in Santo Anastácio ( SP )) - in Brazil usually only as Jaguaré , in France more as Jaguare de Besveconne Vasconcellos or Vasconcelos known - was a Brazilian soccer player . With CR Vasco da Gama he won the championship of Rio de Janeiro in 1929. He also played for FC Barcelona , Sporting Lisbon and SC Corinthians Paulista . With Olympique Marseille he won the French championship of 1937 and the cup of 1938. In Brazil, where he died early, he is also often seen as the man who made goalkeeper gloves famous.

biography

In Brazil, Spain and Portugal

Vasco 1929: Back: Tinoco, Brilhante, Itália, Jaguaré, Fausto, Mola; front: Pascoal, Oitenta-e-Quatro, Russinho, Mário Mattos, Santana

Jaguaré was a dock worker with no formal education who hauled heavy sacks on the quays of Rio de Janeiro. In his spare time he was a fan of physical activity, playing football in the meadows near his neighborhood, Saúde - a neighborhood near the port of Rio that is still characterized by the simple accommodation of the dockers - where he is Espanhol, a defender of the CR Vasco da Gama impressed who brought him to a training session at the club in 1928. There he made an excellent impression and, after having been made sufficiently literate so that he could enter his name on match report sheets, immediately established himself as the new goalkeeper . As early as 1929 he won the state championship of Rio de Janeiro with the club. The most significant team-mate of the eleven, who won the title with just one loss, was the elegant midfielder Fausto dos Santos , considered the best of his era in Brazil. Russinho , who later participated in the World Cup, was another national player in the 1929 championship team.

Jaguaré circa 1930, with a typical sailor's hood

Jaguaré was also noticed by the national team as early as 1928, although until 1929 he was only used there in games against club teams from Scotland and Argentina. In mid-1931 he traveled with Vasco, whose team was reinforced by four players from Botafogo FC , Spain and Portugal - the second European tour of a Brazilian club after that of CA Paulistano in 1925. In twelve games, including against FC Barcelona and FC Porto , SL Benfica and Sporting Lisbon, the Vasco team coached by Harry Welfare won eight times.

He must have impressed in Barcelona in particular: FC Barcelona signed him and Fausto dos Santos, making them the first Brazilians to join the ranks of the Catalonians. Since soccer was still an amateur sport in Rio at that time, it was the first opportunity for both of them to earn money with their skills. Jaguaré, who was soon called Araña Negra , the "Black Spider", and dos Santos could not compete in official matches at Barcelona due to association regulations, but were only offered in a dozen friendly encounters. FC Barcelona tried both Jaguaré, who had made a lasting impression on the club and the public, and Fausto to naturalize and accept Spanish citizenship. Both refused this despite the good financial endowment of the offer.

While dos Santos moved on to Switzerland, Jaguaré returned to Brazil. There he is said to have shown up once during training with Vasco and to have worn goalkeeper gloves, which is often considered the introduction of these aids in Brazil. Otherwise he was no longer particularly suffered at Vasco or in all of Rio's football. In order to keep himself afloat financially, he played with ad hoc teams, so-called Combinados , and was marketed as a figurehead for various events. Ultimately he guarded the gate of SC Corinthians Paulista in São Paulo from 1934 to 1935 , where he was soon replaced by José Hungarez, the first foreigner with the Corinthians.

In 1935, the European regional player Fernando Giudicelli , a participant in the 1930 World Cup, who now also worked as a kind of players' agent, spent a vacation in Brazil and was able to convince Jaguaré and Marins de Araújo Viana “Vianinha” of the earning potential in Italy. After the crossing, they learned about the Abyssinian War in Lisbon and, because of it, refrained from traveling on to Italy. But they were soon accepted by Sporting Lisbon and were the first Brazilians in the club's history. Jaguaré played seven games for Sporting and won the city championship with the club. Essentially, he shared the duties at Sporting with the Portuguese national goalkeeper Dyson . After João Azevedo joined the club, originally as the third goalkeeper, he soon outshone all competitors. Azevedo was to hold the goalkeeping position at Sporting and soon also the national team for a decade and a half. Jaguaré's only competitive game in 1936 took place in April as part of the national championship against Académica de Coimbra .

The heyday in Marseille

In the summer of 1936 Jaguaré moved to France to Olympique Marseille, where he replaced Laurent Di Lorto , who had been brought in at the beginning of the season by the big competitor FC Sochaux . Sochaux and Marseille dominated the French professional league at the time . During the three years that he played at Olympique under coach József Eisenhoffer , the tall Vasconcellos was in a team with numerous exceptional talent from three continents, including Aznar , Ben Barek , Ben Bouali , Kohut , Weiskopf and Zatelli . He himself was quickly nicknamed "El Jaguar" - not only because of his first name, but also because of his smooth movements, great jumping ability and control of the penalty area. On the other hand, he was not inclined to spectacular parades “for the gallery”; however, fans and teammates occasionally caught their breath when “the Jaguar” recognized early on that a shot would just miss its goal. Often he didn't even jump into the threatened corner, but ran towards his defenders to ask them to take closer cover with gestures, or he ostentatiously turned away from the ball, raised his arm and shouted "No!". He liked to provoke opposing strikers loudly, but finally to shoot ( "Shoota shoota, vagabundo!" , In German "Shoot, you vagabond!"). At the beginning of his time at OM he often sent himself flowers to the team hotel on trips away - according to the enclosed cards from supposed admirers to "El Jaguar, the great international star". He also used to greet his own supporters before the start of the game by taking off his cap, with which he has now replaced his sailor's cap, and bowing in front of them in a spacious gesture.

At the end of the 1936/37 season he was French champion straight away with Marseille . In the following season he even scored a goal in Division 1 when he converted a penalty in the away game at FC Sète to make it 1-1, which saved Olympique a point. Because the intended shooter Aznar was slightly injured, Vasconcellos strutted across the field, did not even correct the position of the ball, smiled broadly at his opponent, national goalkeeper René Llense , pointed to the left corner of the goal - and shot exactly there. Even more: in this game, Sète himself received two penalties; at the first, he irritated the opposing shooter with the words "Impossible to score against the big Vasconcellos!" , whereupon he shot over the goal. With the second, he fixed the player Sètes - this time someone else - grinning, stood motionless and held his shot. Sète's striker also hit the bars of the Marseille case four times. At the end of the 1937/38 season, Olympique was only second in the table behind Sochaux, but won the national cup after a 2-1 final victory over FC Metz . Also in 1938/39 Vasconcellos brought it with his team to the runner-up title, this time behind Sète.

After that season he left Europe in view of the looming war - the French league switched to a war mode. In total, he played 62 times in the league and seven times in the cup for OM. Jaguaré put in a stopover in Porto , where he hired at the then first division club Académico FC . However, he did not feel comfortable there and had difficulties integrating. In total, he only played nine games there, two of them in the league.

Back in Brazil

In Brazil he played briefly with São Cristóvão FR , a smaller club from the north of Rio, which was once champion of Rio in 1926. Jaguaré was already in a process of decline. The few savings from his time in Europe were soon used up and he spoke to alcohol. He tried again as a dock worker, where his stories from his great football days were not taken seriously by his colleagues, and he disappeared. Later one heard about him again from the place Santo Anastácio in the hinterland of the state of São Paulo . The stories diverge here; one is that he was killed in a fight with the police, another that he hit his head against the wall in a prison cell and soon succumbed to the injuries. It is reported that he was buried in a poor grave. August 27, 1946 is often given as the date of his death. Little was known in Marseille until the 21st century: Alain Pécheral quoted Olympique's Brazilian coach of the 1960s, Otto Glória , in 2007 , according to which Jaguaré had been murdered in connection with a gang war and there were also contemporary witnesses who spoke of tuberculosis as the cause of death.

Palmarès

literature

  • Hubert Beaudet: Le Championnat et ses champions. 70 ans de Football en France. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2002, ISBN 2-84253-762-9
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-915535-62-4
  • Alain Pécheral: La grande histoire de l'OM. Des origines à nos jours. Ed. Prolongations, o. O. 2007, ISBN 978-2-916400-07-5

Web links

References and comments

  1. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 354
  2. ↑ Marcelo Leme de Arruda: Seleção Brasileira (Brazilian National Team) 1923-1932 , RSSSF-Brasil , February 28, 2009 (Games 49 to 51)
  3. ↑ Jorge Costa: Excursão do Vasco da Gama a Europa em 1931 ( Memento from July 12, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) , Arquivo de Súmulas, October 24, 2010
  4. ^ Gunnar Persson: Stjärnor på Flykt. Histories om Hakoah Vienna. Stockholm 2004; here after the German translation Die Stars auf der Flucht. The history of Hakoah Vienna. , as PDF from the Hakoah club archive, p. 100
  5. ↑ Mário Filho : O negro no futebol brasileiro , 1947, p. 191.
  6. ↑ Mário Filho : O negro no futebol brasileiro , 1947, p. 193.
  7. ↑ a b Pécheral, pp. 385/386
  8. ↑ According to a report in the Austrian Sport-Telegraph of October 17, 1937 about "Wasconcellos [sic!] , Goalkeeper of Olympique Marseille" , he had also performed high jump and achieved a best performance of 1.81 m - for the time a respectable achievement.
  9. ↑ Beaudet, p. 21; Pécheral, pp. 58 and 462f.
  10. ↑ Pécheral, p. 58
  11. ^ Jean Cornu: Les grandes equipes françaises de football. Famot, Genève 1978, p. 48f.
  12. ↑ A photo of the 1937 championship team can be found in Pierre Delaunay / Jacques de Ryswick / Jean Cornu: 100 ans de football en France. Atlas, Paris 1982, 2nd edition 1983, ISBN 2-7312-0108-8 , p. 146.
  13. ↑ Pécheral, pp. 58/59
  14. ↑ Beaudet, pp. 23/24
  15. ↑ A photo of the 1938 cup winners can be found in L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 354.
  16. ↑ Pécheral, pp. 60/61 and 463
personal data
SURNAME Bezerra de Vasconcelos, Jaguaré
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vasconcellos, Jaguare de Besveconne; Vasconcellos, Bezerra de; El Jaguar (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Rio de Janeiro
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: August 27, 1946
Place of death Santo Anastácio ( SP ), Brazil