Sócrates (soccer player)
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Personnel | ||
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Surname | Sócrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Souza Vieira de Oliveira |
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birthday | 19th February 1954 | |
place of birth | Belém , Brazil | |
date of death | 4th December 2011 | |
Place of death | São Paulo , Brazil | |
size | 192 cm | |
position | midfield | |
Men's | ||
Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
1974-1988 | Botafogo FC (Ribeirão Preto) | (101) |
1978-1984 | Corinthians São Paulo | 297 (172) |
1984-1985 | AC Florence | 25 | (6)
1985-1988 | CR Flamengo | 25 | (6)
1988-1989 | FC Santos | 23 | (7)
1989 | Botafogo FC (Ribeirão Preto) | ? | (?)
2004 | Garforth Town | 1 | (0)
National team | ||
Years | selection | Games (goals) |
1979-1986 | Brazil | 60 | (22)
1 Only league games are given. |
Sócrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Souza Vieira de Oliveira (known as Dr. Sócrates ; born February 19, 1954 in Belém ; † December 4, 2011 in São Paulo ) was a Brazilian soccer player and pediatrician .
Career
Sócrates made his debut on May 17, 1979 in the game against Paraguay and played a total of 60 times for the Brazilian national soccer team . The midfield director scored 22 goals. He was team captain at the soccer world championships in Spain in 1982 and in Mexico in 1986 .
The man with the longest name among all officially registered World Cup participants was the driving force on the offensive of the Brazilian national team in the 1980s. Together with Zico , Falcão and Toninho Cerezo, Sócrates formed the “magical midfield quartet” of Brazil, also known as the “Fantastic Four”. Although this team was highly favored in Spain before the 1982 World Cup , this team never won the world title, but is still considered the best Seleção so far in Brazil, together with the 1970 world championship team around Pelé . In 1986 Brazil took part again in the World Cup and failed again just before the semi-finals. They met European champions France in the quarter-finals and fought a duel that is considered to be one of the best in World Cup history to date. After extra time there was a penalty shoot-out in which Sócrates, who always shot a penalty from standing, missed his penalty. Platini and Júlio César also missed and France won the penalty shootout 4-3. After the World Cup, Sócrates resigned from the national team. Falcão and Zico followed suit, ending one of the great eras of the Brazilian national team.
Sócrates, who was 192 cm tall but only had shoe size 41 and was famous for his heel kicks and steep passes with the heel, was considered the enfant terrible of Brazilian football. According to his own statement, he smoked 20 cigarettes a day, exercised rather little, but celebrated all the more. At Corinthians São Paulo he implemented grassroots democratic structures (the so-called Democracia Corinthiana ), so that from then on the players determined everything, from training times to the menu. He also called on fans to stand up against the military dictatorship and for democracy . His football and political opponents included the communist and left defender Vladimir and the young player Walter Casagrande . During the two championships in 1982 and 1983, Casagrande and the Democracia Corintiana repeatedly used the football field to demonstrate their political views, for example to wear jerseys with the slogan "Democracy Now". Sócrates was a trained doctor and was therefore also Dr. Called Sócrates. Since he completed his studies parallel to his career as a professional footballer, he missed participation in the 1978 World Cup in Argentina .
After playing football, he worked as a pediatrician in a hospital in Ribeirão Preto . But like his former teammate Zico, he also excelled as a critical observer of the football scene and advocated a creative, offensive game. Again and again he campaigned for reforms of the game, for example for goal cameras and several referees. As a possible solution to make the games more attractive, he also advocated playing with only nine field players. He found today's game to be not creative enough and too determined by athletics. He also repeatedly criticized Brazilian football and called for a return to creative offensive play. He called the 1994 team "non-Brazilian" because of their more defensive style of play. In 2004, the 50-year-old Sócrates hit the headlines again when he signed a one-month contract with the amateur club Garforth Town and played in the English ninth division.
In August 2011, Sócrates was hospitalized with gastric bleeding and an inflamed liver and spent several days in intensive care. In this context, he made his alcohol problems public. On December 4, 2011, at the age of 57, he died in São Paulo of sepsis caused by an intestinal infection .
useful information
Sócrates' younger brother Raí was also a successful national player and temporarily captain of the Brazilian national team; Raí became world champion with Brazil in 1994 .
The title of the science satire Sokrates, published by Stephan Geiger in 2002, flankt! A short history of philosophy of football plays with the ambiguity of the name "Socrates" (on the one hand the footballer Sócrates, on the other hand the Greek philosopher Socrates ).
Éric Cantona hosted a film documentary that was broadcast on Arte in 2012 under the name “Rebels on the Ball” . This dealt with Sócrate's role within the democracy movement in Brazil. One of the topics was Sócrates and the Corinthians democracy .
A few hours after Sócrates' death, Corinthians won the Brazilian championship for the fifth time in the club's history. Before the decisive match against city rivals Palmeiras São Paulo (final score: 0-0) kicked off, the Corinthians players said goodbye to Sócrates in the center circle. In imitation of Sócrates' gesture when celebrating the goal, the players held up their fists. Sócrates' funeral in Ribeirão Preto also took place on the same day.
In 1983 Sócrates answered in an interview how he wanted to die with: "I want to die on a Sunday and Corinthians (São Paulo) should become champions". Sócrates died on a Sunday, a few hours later Corinthians won the championship.
successes
With Botafogo-SP
- Winning the Vicente Feola tournament: 1976
- Winning the Taça Cidade de São Paulo: 1977
With Corinthians
- Campeonato Paulista wins : 1979, 1982 & 1984
With Flamengo
- Winning the Campeonato Carioca : 1986
- Campeonato Carioca Finalists: 1987
- Winning the Copa União : 1987
With Brazil
- Third in the 1979 Copa America
- Vice-champion of the Mini World Cup 1980/81
- Vice-champion of the Copa America 1983
- FIFA Fair Play Trophy of FIFA 1982
Quotes about Sócrates
“Brazil lost one of its most valued sons, he was a genius on the pitch. Outside the square he was politically active, concerned about his people and his country. "
"A piece of our history broke away with his death and was lost."
Web links
- Alois Gstöttner and Karina Lackner: Sócrates: From flags and freedoms In: Zero Eight ; sighted: April 10, 2010
Individual evidence
- ↑ On the death of Sócrates. Doctor Democracy leaves the place on Spiegel Online on December 4, 2011
- ^ Sócrates: Of flags and liberties. In: Zero eight
- ↑ Sócrates gives alcohol problem to focus.de from August 29, 2011
- ↑ Article on the documentation "Rebels on the Ball"
- ^ Corinthians between grief and jubilation kicker.de
- ↑ http://www.rsssf.com/tablesm/mund80.html
- ↑ a b Brazil football legend Socrates dies at 57. bbc.com, December 4, 2011, accessed January 8, 2020 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Sócrates |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | de Souza Vieira de Oliveira, Sócrates Brasileiro Sampaio (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Brazilian soccer player |
DATE OF BIRTH | 19th February 1954 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Belém , Brazil |
DATE OF DEATH | 4th December 2011 |
Place of death | São Paulo , Brazil |