Manuel Nunes

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Neco
Neco-Sel-Brasileira.jpg
Neco in the Brazilian national jersey (1920)
Personnel
Surname Manuel Nunes
birthday March 7, 1895
place of birth São Paulo ,  Brazil
date of death May 31, 1977
Place of death São Paulo ,  Brazil
position Sturm - center forward
Juniors
Years station
1911-1913 SC Corinthians Paulista
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1913-1930 SC Corinthians Paulista
1915 AA Mackenzie College
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1917-1922 Brazil 14 (9)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1920 SC Corinthians Paulista
1927 SC Corinthians Paulista
1937-1938 SC Corinthians Paulista
1 Only league games are given.

Manuel Nunes , known as Neco (born March 7, 1895 in São Paulo , † May 31, 1977 ibid), was a Brazilian football player and coach. In the history of SC Corinthians Paulista , for whom he worked as a player and coach until the end of the 1930s, he was the first big star and won the first titles with the club. With the Brazilian national team , he won the South American football championship twice .

Life

Championship team 1914 Fúlvio, Casemiro do Amaral, Casemiro Gonzalez; Polícia, Biano, César; Aristides, Peres, Amílcar, Dias, Neco

Neco began playing in 1911 in the youth of SC Corinthians Paulista, founded in 1910 . From 1913 he also had his first assignments in the club's combat team. In 1914 he was part of the regular formation and won the first title in club history with the state championship in São Paulo . In 1915 Corinthians was on the brink of bankruptcy and therefore did not take part in gaming. Neco strengthened AA Mackenzie College this year and was runner-up with the club. In 1916 Corinthians resumed gaming operations and Neco returned. Corinthians was able to build on its old strength immediately and won its second title.

In the following years he could not add any more titles at club level with the exception of the honor of top scorer in 1920, this time with 24 goals. There was a runner-up, otherwise third places. Neco was entrusted with the training management at Corinthians for the first time in 1920.

1917 opened for Neco with the invitation to select for the second game of the South American Championship in Uruguay a successful career in the national team. In his first international match - together with Amílcar Barbuy , who also made his debut , he became the first national player in Corinthians history - in October 1917 in Montevideo he scored 1-0 against Argentina in the 8th minute , but in the end the Seleção also lost 2: 4. In the course of the tournament Neco was able to add one more goal, but Brazil had to be content with third place behind Uruguay and Argentina.

For the South American Championship held in Rio de Janeiro in 1919 in the Estádio das Laranjeiras of Fluminense FC , Neco found again consideration. With Arthur Friedenreich from CA Paulistano , he formed a successful duo in the storm. With four goals each, both became the top scorer of the tournament and thus contributed significantly to the first title win by a Brazilian national soccer team.

Neco had to wait until the South American Championship in 1922 , which was held at the same location as the 1919 competition, until it was again considered by the national team. It succeeded here in the playoff of the tournament against Paraguay to achieve the lead for Brazil after 11 minutes. The game ended 3-0 and the Seleção secured their second title.

In 1922 he was able to win his third national championship title with Corinthians and with the title defenses in the next two years, the club even managed a hat trick. In 1927 Neco was again a player-coach and reached third place in the state league with Corinthians. In 1928 and 1930, the year he retired as a player, he was able to win two more championship titles and thus the second championship hat-trick. In 1930 he achieved the seventh title in 17 years and Corinthians was the record champion ahead of the CA Paulistano with one title less.

Overall, Neco played the mostly on the left wing or center forward, in later years but also in midfield played 296 games for Corinthians, of which 215 were won. 35 were drawn and only 46 were lost. He scored 235 goals.

From 1937 to 1938 Neco sat in the Corinthians coaching bench again, winning the championship of 1937.

As early as 1930, when he stopped his playing career, he was the first Corinthians player to be honored with a statue on the club's premises, which is still the highest honor the club has to award.

Neco married Adalgisa Guganis in August 1925, with whom he had a daughter and a son. Professionally, in 1965, at the age of 70, he retired from the Secretariat for Public Security of the State of São Paulo. He remained closely connected to the SC Corinthians Paulista throughout his life. On May 18, 1977, he attended his last game in Parque São Jorge . Neco died on May 31, 1977 in São Paulo at the age of 82. He couldn't see how Corinthians won the national championship title again on October 13th for the first time in 23 years - the 16th in the club's history.

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Web links and literature

  • Antonio Roque Citadini: Neco, o primeiro ídolo. Geração Editorial, São Paulo 2001, ISBN 85-7509-015-1 .
personal data
SURNAME Nunes, Manuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neco; Nunes, Manoel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH São Paulo , Brazil
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1977
Place of death São Paulo , Brazil