Mario Zagallo

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Mario Zagallo
Zagallo and Lula and Parreira (cropped) .jpg
Personnel
Surname Mário Jorge Lobo Zagallo
birthday August 9, 1931
place of birth Maceió ,  Brazil
size 172 cm
position Left
winger half-forward
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1949-1950 America FC (RJ)
1951-1958 Flamengo Rio de Janeiro
1959-1965 Botafogo FR
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1958-1964 Brazil 33 (5)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1967-1970 Botafogo FR
1967-1968 Brazil
1970-1974 Brazil
1972-1974 Flamengo Rio de Janeiro
1975 Botafogo FR
1976-1988 Kuwait
1978 Botafogo FR
1979 Al-Hilal
1980-1981 CR Vasco da Gama
1981-1984 Saudi Arabia
1984-1985 Flamengo Rio de Janeiro
1986-1987 Botafogo FR
1988-1989 Bangu AC
1989-1990 United Arab Emirates
1990-1991 CR Vasco da Gama
1991-1994 Brazil (coordinator)
1994-1998 Brazil
1999 Portuguesa
2000-2001 Flamengo Rio de Janeiro
2002 Brazil (Interim)
1 Only league games are given.

Mário Jorge Lobo Zagallo , known as Mário Zagallo (born August 9, 1931 in Maceió ), is a former Brazilian football player and coach . He is considered one of the most successful coaches in world football.

Zagallo is considered one of the legends of Brazilian football. The former coach, who was called "Professor" by his players, was involved in four of the five Brazilian World Cup titles as a player, coach and assistant coach and was also the first footballer to win the World Cup both as a player ( 1958 , 1962 ) and also won as a coach ( 1970 ) (both with the Brazilian national team ), which only Franz Beckenbauer (1974/1990) and Didier Deschamps (1998/2018) should succeed.

Active career

Brazil 1958 : Vicente Feola (coach), Djalma Santos, Zito, Bellini, Nilton Santos, Orlando, Gilmar - Garrincha, Didi, Pelé, Vava, Zagallo .

The attacking midfielder and striker Mário Zagallo played for América Rio de Janeiro from 1946 to 1950 , and from 1951 for six years for Flamengo Rio de Janeiro . There he won the state championship of Rio de Janeiro from 1953 to 1955 . From 1958 to 1965 he played for Botafogo , with whom he won this state championship twice (1961, 1962). In 1962 he was also the winner of the Torneio Rio-São Paulo with Botafogo .

Zagallo made 33 international appearances and scored five goals for the Brazilian national soccer team . In 1958 and 1962 he was a left winger regular for the Brazilian team, which won the world title twice in a row. In 1958 he scored in the final against Sweden and in 1962 in the opening game against Mexico. The attack line of this team consisted in both tournaments of Garrincha , Didi , Vavá , Pelé (after his injury in 1962: Amarildo ) and Zagallo.

Coach career

Mário Zagallo coached over a dozen football clubs between 1966 and 2001. His coaching career began in 1966 with Botafago , which he coached for four years. Then he was one season each with Fluminense , Flamengo and after four years with the national team again with Botafogo under contract. In 1978 he went to Saudi Arabia and became the coach of Al-Hilal .

However, after a year, Zagallo moved back to his homeland and signed with Vasco da Gama . He then coached the Clube de Regatas de Flamengo (1984–1985), Botafogo (1986–1987), Bangu (1988–1989) and Vasco da Gama (1990–1991). After his second engagement with the national team, he coached Portuguesa in 2000 and, at the end of his career, Flamengo for the third time (2000-2001).

He won the Taça Brasil with Botafogo in 1968 and became national champion of Rio de Janeiro in 1967, 1968, 1971, 1972 and Saudi Arabian champion in 1979.

He coached the national team of his home country twice, the first time between 1970 and 1974, the second time from 1994 to 1998, when he was runner-up with his country at the 1998 World Cup . With Brazil he won the Copa America in 1997 . From 1993 to 1994 he was technical director of the national team and won the Brazilian championship title in 1994 as assistant coach .

Zagallo coached a total of 154 national team games: 110 games were won. In contrast, there are 33 draws and only eleven defeats.

successes

As a player

As coach of the national team

As a club coach

personal data
SURNAME Zagallo, Mário
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zagallo, Mário Jorge Lobo (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Maceió