José Maria Fidélis dos Santos

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José Maria Fidélis dos Santos , often only Fidélis for short (born March 13, 1944 in São José dos Campos ( SP ); † November 28, 2012 ibid), was an eight-time Brazilian national soccer player .

With the national team he took part in the 1966 World Cup in England. At club level, the right full-back won the State Championship of Rio de Janeiro with the Bangu AC in 1966 and the CR Vasco da Gama in 1970 . With Vasco da Gama he became Brazilian champion in 1974 . In 1980 he won the state championship of Rio Grande do Norte with the ABC Natal from Natal . In retrospect, his style of play was often compared to the later world champion Cafu . As a coach, he also won national championships with CS Alagoano and 1986 with Operaio from Mato Grosso do Sul .

Live and act

An Air Force lieutenant from Rio de Janeiro discovered him in 1957 on the soccer fields in the hinterland of São Paulo state and recommended him to Bangu AC from the west of Rio de Janeiro, where the 175 centimeter tall, fast player made his professional debut in 1961 at the age of 17. Bangu was in that era, also due to the strengths of Fidélis, in the heyday of his club history. After two runner-up championships in 1964 and 1965, the club became national champions of Rio de Janeiro in 1966 . The coaches were Pelé's idol Zizinho and the Argentine Alfredo González . Bangus Paulo Borges was the top scorer with 16 goals. Under the new coach Ondino Viera , Fidélis was again runner-up in 1967 with Bangu. Even back then, he was known for his zeal for training: it was not uncommon for him to rehearse the flank 100 or more times after the official training session.

On June 5, 1966, he made his debut in the Estádio Mineirão of Belo Horizonte in the 4-1 win against Poland in the national team. In his second appearance three days later, he scored his only goal in the national shirt in a 3-1 win against Peru at the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro. As part of the preparations for the 1966 World Cup in England , he played four more internationals for Brazil. He was eventually taken to England by coach Vicente Feola , who preferred him to 1970 World Cup captain Carlos Alberto Torres , as a potential replacement for Djalma Santos . There he was used in the 1: 3 against Portugal - equipped with stars of that era like Mário Coluna , José Augusto and Eusébio . The defeat meant after the previous 1: 3 against Hungary the end in the group stage.

In 1968 he moved from Bangu to the top club CR Vasco da Gama , where he stayed until 1974. Highlights here were winning the state championship in Rio in 1970 and the Brazilian championship under coach Mário Travaglini in 1974, the first in the club's history. The season's top scorer and later club president Roberto Dinamite was one of his outstanding team-mates.

This was followed by a short time at America FC in Rio. Between 1976 and 1977 he finished his playing career at ABC Natal in Natal , the capital of Rio Grande do Norte , and won the national championship known as Campeonato Potiguar , the 36th in the club's history, in his first year at the club. In 1978 he worked at Operário Várzea Grandense in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul and finally at the São José EC in his hometown of São José de Campos in the hinterland of the state of São Paulo, where he also worked as a trainer between 1981 and 1984.

In 1981, São José qualified for the first time for the state championship in São Paulo , where the club only narrowly failed in the semifinals against the champions of the year, São Paulo FC . This also allows the first participation in the national championship of Brazil , which was then called Taça de Ouro . There the team did well and was able to successfully assert itself against prominent teams such as Gremio Porto Alegre , Atlético Mineiro , and Botafogo FR before failing in the third round at Bangu AC . From this statisticians calculated an attractive 12th place in a field of 44 participants.

In his coaching career he won the State Championship of Alagoas with CSA and in 1986 the State Championship of Mato Grosso do Sul with Operaio . In addition, he coached numerous other clubs of minor importance.

The Touro Sentado , the "seated bull", as he was also called because of, so it is said, physical similarities with the Indian chief of the same name , lived the last years of his life in Rio de Janeiro in the Campo Grande district in the west of the city, where he lived Among other things, he kept afloat with work for small football schools , so-called escolinhas de futebol . In Campo Grande, at the age of 51, he also met his wife, with whom he had two of his five children. After the now impoverished Fidélis was diagnosed with stomach cancer in April 2012, he looked in vain for help in the management of CR Vasco da Gama as well as its president and now also a member of the state parliament for the PMDB Roberto Dinamite. At the beginning of November 2012 he was finally brought home as a player to his extended family by the president of his last club, the São José EC. He died on November 28, 2012 in a hospital in São José de Campos, where he also found his final resting place.

successes

Bangu

Vasco

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Year-end placements according to RSSSF Brasil
personal data
SURNAME Fidélis dos Santos, José Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fidélis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH São José dos Campos
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 2012
Place of death São José dos Campos