Moacir Claudino Pinto

Moacir
Moacir 2008
Personnel
Surname	Moacir Claudino Pinto
birthday	May 18, 1936
place of birth	São Paulo ,  Brazil
position	midfield player
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1956-1961	Flamengo	225 (59)
1961–1962	River Plate	28 0(7)
1962	Flamengo	1 0(0)
1962-1963	Club Atlético Peñarol
1963-1964	CD Everest
1964-1966	Barcelona SC
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1957-1958	Brazil	6 0(2)
1 Only league games are given.

Moacir Claudino Pinto (born May 18, 1936 in São Paulo ), better known as Moacir is a former Brazilian soccer player who won the world championship with the national team of his home country in 1958.

Career

Club career

Moacir Claudino Pinto, born on May 18, 1936 in São Paulo, began his football career in 1956 with Flamengo Rio de Janeiro . Until 1961 he played 225 games for the club with which he won the Torneio Rio-São Paulo , the most traditional tournament between the best football teams in the two metropolises of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, in 1961 shortly before moving to the top Argentinian club CA River Plate . After moving to River Plate in 1962, he left the club from Buenos Aires after a year and 28 games in the Primera División (seven goals) and went back to Flamengo. Here he played a game and in the same year moved to the Uruguayan serial champion Peñarol from Montevideo . Moacir stayed with Peñarol until 1963 and won the Uruguayan football championship in the 1962 season by taking first place in the final table before local rivals Nacional Montevideo . In 1963 he was signed by CD Everest from Guayaquil in Ecuador . There and at Barcelona SC , also coming from Guayaquil , Moacir let his football career end until 1966. In the last year of his playing career, he won the Ecuadorian championship with Barcelona SC .

National team

Moacir was used six times in the Brazilian national football team in 1957 and 1958 . He got two goals. Brazil coach Vicente Feola called him into the South American squad for the 1958 World Cup in Sweden . However, he was not used in the tournament. Meanwhile, his team, which was equipped with world-class players like the young Pelé or Garrincha, reached the final, in which they beat hosts Sweden 5-2 in the Råsunda stadium in Stockholm .

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