Tostao

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Tostao
Personnel
Surname Eduardo Gonçalves de Andrade
birthday January 25, 1947
place of birth Belo HorizonteBrazil
size 172 cm
position Center Forward
Juniors
Years station
1961 Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1962-1963 FC America 26 0(16)
1964-1971 Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte 378 (249)
1972-1973 CR Vasco da Gama 45 00(6)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1966-1972 Brazil 54 0(32)
1 Only league games are given.

Eduardo Gonçalves de Andrade known as Tostão (* 25. January 1947 in Belo Horizonte , Minas Gerais ), is a former Brazilian football player , who with the Seleção the 1970 World Cup in Mexico won. The South American Footballer of the Year from 1971 was mainly active at club level for Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte in his hometown, with whom he won the Taça Brasil in 1966 . This competition was recognized by the national association CBF 2010 as the Brazilian championship .

Career

National team, 1966–1972

Beginning

On May 15, 1966, Tostão made his debut in the 1: 1 of the Seleção against Chile in São Paulo. Two months after his debut in the Brazilian national team, the 19-year-old also played at the 1966 World Cup in England. Brazil played their opening game against Bulgaria on July 12, which ended in a 2-0 win for the Seleção. Pelé and Garrincha scored the goals . With the second group game Tostão experienced his debut at the World Cup. He replaced the injured Pelé in the game against Hungary on July 15. At the side of the world champions of 1958 and 1962 - Gilmar , Bellini and Garrincha - Tostão equalized the 1-0 lead in the 14th minute of the game. The Hungarian lead had been in place since the second minute of the game and was achieved by goal scorer Ferenc Bene . The Hungarians around their star Flórián Albert won against the defending champion with 3-1 goals. The third group game brought Portugal as opponents. The towering Eusébio contributed significantly to the Portuguese 3-1 victory. As a result, Brazil was eliminated before the quarter-finals of the eighth World Cup.

The mood in Brazil had hit rock bottom at the end of 1968. The reason for this was the defeat against Germany on June 16 and the defeat against Czechoslovakia on June 24. Also responsible was the disappointing 2-2 draw on December 14th against the German team of national coach Helmut Schön , which was recorded in the local Maracanã stadium .

Football World Cup 1970

The responsibility for the national team was given to João Saldanha . The coach, dubbed “Profesor de Bola”, put Brazil back on the road to success in 1969. The World Cup qualifiers against Venezuela, Colombia and Paraguay ended with 23-2 goals and 12-0 points. The outstanding player of the Brazilian team was Tostão, the center forward of Cruzeiro. He scored ten goals, one more than Gerd Müller , and was the record-breaking scorer in the World Cup qualifying rounds. The last group game took place on August 31st in front of 183,341 spectators at the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro. The opponent of the Seleção was Paraguay. Tostão decided the game in Brazil's favor with his goal in the 79th minute. Pelé said of Tostão at the time: “I only needed one game and knew that this gifted boy would be like a twin brother to me. When I run the ball, it knows where to go. He literally senses my thoughts. Since the days of Coutinho , I haven't got on as well with a striker as with Tostão. "

Two months before the World Cup in Mexico, coach Saldanha was replaced by Mário Zagallo after internal differences . Tostao's career seemed to be over as he had to endure a complicated eye operation immediately after the World Cup qualifiers in Houston, Texas. Only two weeks before the start of the tournament he was able to convince the new coach of his recovery in the international match against Mexico. He jumped on the World Cup train at the last minute. On June 7th a group match of the World Cup tournament between England and Brazil took place in Guadalajara. Tostão played a major role in the Brazilians' 1-0 win. He did the excellent preparatory work for the decisive goal in the 59th minute of the game. Tostão first tricked the majority of the English back line in front of goalkeeper Gordon Banks - with captain Bobby Moore . Then he put the ball half-right to Pelé. This fit more suspiciously than seeing the approaching right winger Jairzinho . Jairzinho finally chased the ball into the defending champion's far corner. In the quarter-finals, Tostão was the decisive player. He scored two goals against the Peruvian team around coach Didi . His goal preparations were also decisive for the Brazilian 4-2 victory. Hennes Weisweiler stated: "Only those who sharply mark the inconspicuous, elegant and lightning-fast center forward can get a grip on the Brazilian storm." Most of the time, Tostão avoided close cover by letting them fall back into midfield. He built his attacks from the depths of space. Tostão had an enormous ball security and precision in the end. At the finals on June 21, the iron-hard Vorstopper fought him Roberto Rosato of AC Milan in close Marking. This left space for strikers Pelé and Jairzinho and attacking midfielders Gérson and Rivelino . Brazil won the final with 4-1 goals and thus finally took possession of the Coupe Jules Rimet . By winning the World Cup, "Pelé branco", the man from Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte , crowned his career as a football player.

Taça Independência

Another title followed in 1972: Brazil organized the Taça Independência , also known as the Mini-Copa . It was a football tournament held from June 11th to July 9th on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Brazil's independence from Portugal. 20 teams took part: 18 national teams and two association teams. Ironically, Brazil and the former colonial power Portugal reached the final on July 9, 1972 in Rio de Janeiro, which Brazil won 1-0. The winning final was Tostão's last international match.

societies

Tostão played with América Mineiro in Belo Horizonte until 1963 . From 1963 to 1972 he showed his skills in the Mineirão stadium of Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte . In 1972/73 he prematurely ended his club career at CR Vasco da Gama because of renewed eye problems .

In the election of the century he came in fifth in Brazil and thirteenth in South America.

End of career

He has scored 32 goals for the Seleção. After his departure, which was preceded by Pele's departure, difficult times began for the three-time world champion. He retired at the age of 27 because of a problem with his left eye that affected his retina and which could have made him blind.

Life after football

Tostão successfully completed a medical degree and practiced as a doctor. At the end of the nineties, he turned his back on medicine, disappointed: "It became painfully clear to me that people in the Brazilian health care system do not count anything, absolutely nothing." He then became a book author and one of the most renowned newspaper columnists in Brazil.

successes

National team

Cruzeiro

Top scorer

Honors

swell

  • Michael Horn: Lexicon of international soccer stars. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-466-9 .
  • Football Lexicon , Copress Verlag, Munich, 1991, ISBN 3-7679-0330-X
  • 1000 footballers , Naumann & Göbel, Cologne, ISBN 3-625-10538-1
  • Der Sport-Brockhaus , Mannheim, 1989, ISBN 3-7653-0392-5
  • Hardy Greens : Football World Cup Encyclopedia. 1930-2006. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2002, ISBN 3-89784-205-X .
  • IX. Football World Cup 1970 , Hennes Weisweiler / Sid / Bertelsmann sports editorial office, 1970, Bertelsmann GmbH, Gütersloh
  • Josef Renggli, Big Stars of Round Leather , Polydruck AG , Spreitenbach / Switzerland, 1970

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ End of career , report on cbf.com.br from January 25, 2018, page on poertug., Accessed on January 25, 2018