Leônidas da Silva
Leônidas da Silva | ||
Leonidas, c. 1940
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Personnel | ||
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Surname | José Leônidas da Silva | |
birthday | September 6, 1913 | |
place of birth | Rio de Janeiro , Brazil | |
date of death | January 24, 2004 | |
Place of death | Cotia , Brazil | |
position | Storm | |
Men's | ||
Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
1929 | São Cristóvão FR | |
1929-1930 | Sírio Libanês FC | |
1931-1932 | Bonsucesso FC | |
1933 | Peñarol Montevideo | |
1934 | CR Vasco da Gama | |
1935 | SC Brasil | |
1935-1936 | Botafogo FR | |
1936-1941 | Flamengo Rio de Janeiro | |
1942-1951 | Sao Paulo FC | |
National team | ||
Years | selection | Games (goals) |
1932-1946 | Brazil | 26 (25) |
1 Only league games are given. |
José Leônidas da Silva (born September 6, 1913 in Rio de Janeiro , † January 24, 2004 in Cotia ) was a Brazilian football player .
Career
societies
Leônidas da Silva played in the course of his footballing career with the top Brazilian teams FC São Paulo , Botafogo FR , CR Vasco da Gama and Flamengo Rio de Janeiro .
In 1933 he played for Peñarol Montevideo in Uruguay . Da Silva, who played in the attack and whose nicknames were the "black diamond" and "rubber man", is sometimes - and in this respect controversial - referred to as the inventor of the fall retractor . He himself did not want to be regarded as this. He scored the first goal with an overhead kick on April 24, 1932 for Bonsucesso .
National team
He made his debut on December 4, 1932 in Montevideo in a 2-1 win over the Uruguayan selection in the Copa Río Branco . In the jersey of the Seleção , he played 26 international matches (only 19 of which are officially considered such) and scored 25 goals. At the 1938 World Cup in France , he became the tournament's top scorer with seven goals.
In the legendary game against Poland alone (final result: 6: 5 a.s.) he scored three goals. In this game he sometimes played barefoot. Leonida's 6: 5 winning goal in extra time was legendary when he grabbed the ball in the kick-off circle, curled it into the penalty area and scored his team with a great goal in the quarter-finals. In the semifinals, the slightly ailing Leonidas was not used, as the coach expected a safe progress anyway. Without the striker, Brazil lost 2-1 to the defending champions from Italy. In his two World Cup appearances in 1934 and 1938, he scored a total of eight goals and has been one of the most successful Brazilian goal scorers of all time in World Cup tournaments.
successes
- National Championship of Rio de Janeiro 1934, 1935, 1939
- São Paulo State Championship 1943, 1945, 1946, 1948, 1949
- Participation in the World Cup in 1934 , 1938
- World Cup top scorer in 1938
Others
Da Silva was the first promotional ambassador for Brazilian football. He advertised cigarettes and a chocolate with his nickname the chocolate Diamante Negro .
After his sports career, he initially worked as a manager at São Paulo FC. He then became one of the most famous sports reporters in Brazil and won the Troféu Roquette Pinto seven times . Da Silva was also the owner of a furniture store in São Paulo .
In the 1951 film Susana eo Presidente , da Silva played himself and also showed his overhead kick.
Da Silva suffered from Alzheimer's disease . Because of this, he had to end his career as a presenter in 1974. He spent the last ten years of his life in a clinic. His treatment was funded by his former club, São Paulo. Da Silva was buried in São Paulo in the Cemitério da Paz cemetery .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Planteles Históricos ( Memento from January 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish), accessed on May 16, 2015.
- ↑ Silva is not an overhead kicker inventor. In: Spiegel online. September 5, 2013, accessed January 19, 2018.
- ↑ First fall retreat gate report on: memoriasdoesporte.com.br , September 1, 2018, accessed on September 4, 2018. (Portuguese)
- ↑ Matti Lieske: Why football is so important for Brazil. at: berliner-zeitung.de , accessed on June 10, 2014.
- ↑ Advertising ambassador report on: memoriasdoesporte.com.br , August 31, 2018, accessed on August 31, 2018. (Portuguese)
- ↑ da Silva in the film , Filmdanten on cinemateca.gov.br, accessed on August 31, 2018.
Web links
- Official FIFA site for the 1938 World Cup
- Lazar Backovic: Football legend Leônidas da Silva - "He was our stick of dynamite". In: one day . 5th September 2013.
- Profile on cbf.com.br from April 23, 2020
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Silva, Leônidas there |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Silva, José Leônidas there |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Brazilian soccer player |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 6, 1913 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Rio de Janeiro |
DATE OF DEATH | January 24, 2004 |
Place of death | Cotia |