Paulo Amaral

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Paulo Amaral
Juventus FC 1963-64 - Paulo Amaral (cropped) .jpg
Paulo Amaral
Personnel
Surname Paulo Lima Amaral
birthday October 18, 1923
place of birth Rio de JaneiroBrazil
date of death May 1, 2008
Place of death Rio de JaneiroBrazil
position midfield
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1943-1946 Flamengo Rio de Janeiro 18 (1)
1946-1948 Botafogo FR
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1959-1961 Botafogo FR
1961–1962 CR Vasco da Gama
1962-1964 Juventus Turin
1964 Corinthians São Paulo
1965 CFC genoa
1966 Atlético Mineiro
1967-1968 EC Bahia
1969-1971 Fluminense Rio de Janeiro
1971 CR Vasco da Gama
1971-1972 FC Porto
1973 Botafogo FR
1973 Paraguay
1974-1975 America FC (RJ)
1976 Botafogo FR
1976-1977 Clube do Remo
1977 Guarani FC
1977-1988 al-Hilal
1979 Clube do Remo
1 Only league games are given.

Paulo Lima Amaral (born October 18, 1923 in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil , † May 1, 2008 ibid) was a Brazilian football player and coach .

After a brief playing career in the 1940s with Flamengo Rio de Janeiro and Botafogo FR , he was in the coaching staff of Brazil at the World Championships in 1958 and 1962. His greatest personal success was the Brazilian championship with Fluminense FC as coach in 1970. Coach stations in Europe included Juventus Turin and FC Porto .

Career

Paulo Amaral played during his relatively short professional football career in Rio de Janeiro as a defender from 1942 and 1945 for CR Flamengo and from 1946 to 1948 for Botafogo FR .

In 1948 he started training as a sports teacher and finally graduated in 1953 with a trainer diploma. He then became a fitness coach and later a reserve coach. Later he was on the coaching staff of the Brazilian national team . Amaral was the first fitness trainer of the Seleção and when he won the world championship title in 1958 in Sweden and 1962 in Chile .

Amaral then left the Brazilian national team and moved to Europe . Here he trained Juventus Turin , where he was runner-up in 1963, and the CFC Genoa in Italy .

After returning to Brazil in the meantime, he coached Atlético Mineiro in 1966 and the EC Bahia from 1967 to 1968 . In 1970 he celebrated the greatest success of his career when he led Fluminense FC as an underdog to win the Torneio Roberto Gomes Pedrosa , a competition regarded as the forerunner of the Brazilian championship. In 1971 he coached CR Vasco da Gama before he took over FC Porto again in Europe that same year , where he stayed until 1972 and only achieved a disappointing 5th place.

Other coaching stations Botafogo FR , the national team of Paraguay , America FC in Rio de Janeiro, the Clube do Remo in Belém, northeast Brazil and al-Hilal FC in Riyadh , where he ended his career in 1978.

After he was honored by the Brazilian Federation in 2006 for his contribution to the success of the national team, he died of cancer in 2008 at his home in Copacabana , Rio de Janeiro, at the age of 84.

Web links

Commons : Paulo Amaral  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. “Paulo Lima Amaral”, www.flaestatistica.com, May 2, 2008 ( Memento of February 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (Portuguese)
  2. “Brasile: Morto Amaral, allenò anche Juve e Genoa”, www.calciomercato.com, May 2, 2008 ( Memento of March 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (Italian)