Nilo Murtinho Braga

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Nilo
Nilo Murtinho Braga.jpg
Nilo in 1928 in the Botafogo jersey
Personnel
Surname Nilo Murtinho Braga
birthday April 3, 1903
place of birth Rio de Janeiro ,  Brazil
date of death 5th February 1975
Place of death Rio de Janeiro ,  Brazil
size 169 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
1916-1917 Fluminense Rio de Janeiro
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1918-1919 América FC (RN)
1919-1922 Botafogo FC
1922-1923 SC Brasil
1924-1926 Fluminense Rio de Janeiro
1927-1938 Botafogo FC
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1923-1930 Brazil 14 (9)
1 Only league games are given.

Nilo Murtinho Braga , called Nilo , (born April 3, 1903 in Rio de Janeiro , † February 5, 1975 ibid) was a Brazilian national soccer player . His game was characterized by his speed, skill and ease of scoring goals.

career

Nilo started his career as a teenager with Fluminense from Rio de Janeiro . He had his first game in top division football at the age of fifteen with América FC (RN). At nineteen, he joined local rivals Botafogo. His Omkel Oldemar Murtinho, active as a supervisor at Botafogo, recruited him. After his uncle had left Botafogo in a dispute, Nilo left after only two years and joined the two-tier club SC Brasil . In 1924 Nilo moved again and went to Fluminense Rio de Janeiro . Five years after leaving Botafogo, he returned to his old place of work in 1927. With the team he was able to win the state championship in Rio de Janeiro five times in six years . He remained loyal to Botafogo until the end of his career at the age of 35. He is said to have scored 184 goals in 201 games for the club. In 1927 alone, Nilo scored 30 of Botafogo's 67 goals, four of them in the highest victory over Flamengo Rio de Janeiro with 9: 2 to date (as of August 2018) . In the 1927 season, Nilton averaged 1.5 goals per game, 42 goals in 28 games. On May 16, 1938, Nilo played his last competitive game against Olaria AC .

National team

His career in the national team began with the Campeonato Sudamericano in 1923 . Here he was fourth with the team. In the same competition in 1925 he was second with the team. He was a member of the team at the Football World Cup in 1930 and was used in the game against Yugoslavia on July 14 (1: 2). In 1931 he won the Copa Río Branco with the national team. The following appearances in the national team are proven.

Official internationals

  • November 11, 1923 against Paraguay, result: 0: 1 (Campeonato Sudamericano)
  • November 18, 1923 against Argentina, result: 1: 2 (Campeonato Sudamericano) (1 goal)
  • 22 November 1923 against Paraguay, result: 2-0 ( Taça Rodrigues Alves ) (1 goal / total 2)
  • November 25, 1923 against Uruguay, result: 1: 2 (Campeonato Sudamericano) (1 goal / total 3)
  • December 2, 1923 against Argentina, result: 2-0 (Taça Confraternidad) (1 goal / 4 total)
  • 9 December 1923 against Argentina, result: 2-0 (Copa Roca)
  • December 6, 1925 against Paraguay, result: 5: 2 (Campeonato Sudamericana)
  • 13 December 1925 against Argentina, result: 1: 4 (Campeonato Sudamericana) (1 goal / total 5)
  • December 17, 1925 against Paraguay, result: 3: 1 (Campeonato Sudamericana) (1 goal / 6 total)
  • December 25, 1925 against Argentina, result: 2-2 (Campeonato Sudamericana) (1 goal / 7 total)
  • July 14, 1930 against Yugoslavia, result: 1: 2 (World Cup)
  • August 1, 1930 against France, result: 3-2
  • August 10, 1930 against Yugoslavia, result: 4: 1
  • 6 September 1931 against Uruguay, result: 2: 0 (Copa Rio Branco) (2 goals / total 9)

Unofficial games

successes

America

Fluminense

Botafogo

Brazilian State Championship

National team

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Individual proof for international matches
personal data
SURNAME Braga, Nilo Murtinho
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nilo (short name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Rio de Janeiro , Brazil
DATE OF DEATH 5th February 1975
Place of death Rio de Janeiro , Brazil