Pepe (soccer player, 1935)

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Pepe
José Macia (Pepe) 01.jpg
Pepe (2008)
Personnel
Surname José Macia
birthday February 25, 1935
place of birth Santos ,  Brazil
size 175 cm
position striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1954-1969 FC Santos 750 (405)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1956-1963 Brazil 34 (16)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1969-1973 FC Santos (Youth)
1973 FC Santos
1974-1977 FC Santos (Youth)
1975 FC Santos
1978 Paulista FC (Jundiaí)
1979-1980 FC Santos
1981 Atlético Mineiro
1981 São José EC
1982 Náutico capibaribe
1983 AA Internacional
1983-1985 Al-Sadd SC
1985 Fortaleza EC
1986 Sao Paulo FC
1986-1987 AA Internacional
1987-1989 Boavista Porto
1989 Peru
1989 AA Internacional
1989-1990 FC Santos
1992-1993 Verdy Kawasaki
1993 Portuguesa São Paulo
1993-1995 Guarani FC
1994-1995 FC Santos
1995 Athletico Paranaense
1996 AA Internacional
1996 Coritiba FC
1997 Criciúma EC
1998 Athletico Paranaense
2002-2003 Portuguesa Santista
2003 Guarani FC
2003 Portuguesa Santista
2004-2005 Al-Ahli SC
2006 AA Ponte Preta
1 Only league games are given.

Pepe , real name José Macia (born February 25, 1935 in Santos ), is a former Brazilian soccer player and later coach . He became soccer world champion in 1958 and 1962. Pepe was born at home on Carnival Monday as the son of José Macia amidst street parties. De father intended to have him registered as José Macia Filho. Due to a mistake by the notary, however, he was given the same name as his father and later also the nickname Pepe , as the family is of Spanish origin and this is a way of belittling José in Spanish.

Player career

Club career

Pepe (2008)

José Macia, better known at the time as Pepe or Canhão da Vila , played for his hometown club FC Santos for most of his career .

In 1951, at the age of sixteen, he joined Santos from São Vicente AC . In 1954 he made the leap to the first team here. At FC Santos, Pepe was part of the club's successful team in the early 1960s, when the team around Pelé , Zito , Coutinho , goalkeeper Gilmar and Pepe won the Copa Libertadores twice. In the third edition of the most important tournament for club teams in South America, the Copa Campeones de América 1962 , FC Santos won the final against Peñarol Montevideo , which had previously won both Copa Libertadores titles. The first leg at the Estadio Centenario of Montevideo won Santos with 2: 1, but in the second leg at the Estádio Urbano Caldeira they lost with 2: 3, so that a playoff was needed. FC Santos won this 3-0 with an own goal by Omar Caetano and two goals by Pelé. Pepe was only used in the playoff. The following year, Santos FC reached the final of the Copa Libertadores again . Against the Boca Juniors from Argentina's capital Buenos Aires they were again victorious with 3: 2 and 2: 1. Pepe was used in both finals, he failed a goal. In addition to winning the Copa Libertadores, Pepe and Santos won the São Paulo state championship eleven times, the Torneio Rio-São Paulo four times and the World Cup twice . In addition, he was with Santos five times in a row Brazilian soccer championship from 1961 to 1965, in the same years also succeeded in winning the national cup. Pepe ended his active career in 1969 after 750 games and 405 goals for FC Santos (second most for Santos after Pelé, as of July 2020). He is considered the best player in the club history of FC Santos behind Pelé.

National team

In the Brazilian national soccer team , Pepe was used 34 times between 1956 and 1963. In these 34 games he scored 16 goals. With the Brazilian national team he took part in two soccer world championships. At the world tournament in 1958 , however, like the one in 1962, it was not used. Nevertheless, he is a two-time winner of the soccer world championship, as the Brazilian team won both world championships. In 1958 in Sweden they won the final 5-2 against the hosts, in 1962 3-1 against Czechoslovakia . For Pepe, a friendly game against England in 1963 was his most important. In the game scored the goal to equalize 1-1 shortly before the end. He was proud of the praise from England goalkeeper Gordon Banks , who praised him and said he didn't even see the ball coming.

Coaching career

After the end of his active career, Pepe became a football coach. First he coached FC Santos in 1973, with whom he was able to win the state championship of São Paulo again. After less than a year his time in Santos ended again because he was only an interim coach. In 1985 he became a coach at Fortaleza EC . With the club he won the state championship of Ceará . From 1986 to 1988 he coached AA Internacional from Limeira in the hinterland of the state of São Paulo, which he helped to achieve the greatest successes in the club's history: the 1986 national championship, which took place in two games at the Morumbi Stadium in São Paulo in late August and early September 104,000 and 65,000 spectators were won by 0-0 and 2-1. That was also the first championship of a club from the hinterland.

He was then signed by São Paulo FC , with whom he was able to win the national Brazilian championship of 1986, which in February 1987 after a 1-1 at home in front of 81,000 spectators in the Morumbi in the second leg in Campinas after a score of 3: 3 after 120 Minutes - Antônio de Oliveira Filho "Careca" equalized for the SPFC in the 119th minute - they won 4: 3 on penalties.

From 1987 to 1988 he was with the Portuguese first division team Boavista Porto , which he led to fifth place in the Primeira Divisão in the 1987/88 season , until then the best league placement of all time. The following season started with little enthusiasm: After the 17th matchday, six defeats faced six wins, and the team was beaten in 13th place. This meant that Pepe and Boavista broke up at the end of the second week of December. His successor Raúl Águas , nephew of old Benfica star José Águas , only suffered two defeats, and the team even improved to third place by the end of the season.

In January 1989 he began his fourth term in Limeira. As the successor to Levir Culpi , he led Inter through the last four games of the Divisão Especial do Campeonato Brasileiro , as the second national level was called at the time. Here the team secured their second foray into the national first class after 1982 in three games and after a 2-1 final victory over Náutico Capibaribe they could also call themselves champions of the competition of 1988 (!).

In 1989 he also coached the Peruvian national soccer team for a short time. This was followed by a few coaching stations in Brazil and Japan , most recently as a coach at Guarani FC . With the Japanese club Tokyo Verdy he won the Japanese football championship in 1991/92.

In July 1996 he leads Inter de Limeira by a 4-0 over the AA Portuguesa from Santos for promotion to the first division of São Paulo.

When he was responsible for Al-Ahli SC from Qatar from 2004 to 2005 , he coached Pep Guardiola , who is now one of the best coaches in the world.

Trivia

Pepe has a YouTube channel called Canal Pepe 11. Here, with the help of his daughter Gisa, he shares some of the adventures he has had during his career.

successes

As a player

National team

Santos FC

As a trainer

Brazilian champion

Japanese master

Brazilian champions of the second division

State Championship of São Paulo

State Championship of Ceará

Personal awards

  • 1966 he was honored for his extraordinary fairness of Belfort Duarte Prêmio awarded
  • In 1992/93 he was named Trainer of the Year in Japan.

Web links

Commons : Pepe  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Remarks
  1. ↑ To Título para pepe-Pé Quente , Placar , February 17, 1989, p. 36
personal data
SURNAME Pepe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Macia, José (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Santos , Brazil