Ademir da Guia
Ademir da Guia (left) with President Lula
Ademir da Guia ( born April 3, 1942 in Rio de Janeiro ) is a former Brazilian football player and current politician.
Career
Club career
Ademir da Guia began playing football in his youth at the two clubs Ceres FC and Bangu AC. In 1960 he was taken by the latter club in the first team. The son of Domingos da Guia, thirty -fold Brazilian international and played in 1938 World Cup participants, henceforth one year at the smaller club, had already played his father for once. Six games in the Brazilian championship he made during this time. In 1961 he was taken from Palmeiras São Paulo under contract. Here, the midfielder was able to prevail and quickly became the master power. Overall, he brought with Palmeiras 1962-1977 seven times the Brazilian Football Championship, where in 1967 two titles were won. On the one hand was victorious in the Taça Brasil, on the other hand you also won the Torneio Roberto Gomes Pedrosa, the parallel to the Taça Brasil a second national champion determined in its four editions from 1967 to 1970, which was recognized by the Brazilian Football Federation as such. Da Guia won the tournament with Palmeiras two times, so the club is record winner of this competition, Santos and Fluminense won once each.
Palmeiras in 1972 became the second master, founded a year ago Série A as highest league in Brazil. The following year, it was again champion. Due to the success at the national level played Ademir da Guia with Palmeiras also often in the Copa Libertadores, the most important football tournament for club teams in South America. The greatest success in the Libertadores Cup succeeded in 1968, when they reached the final and previously already Club Guaraní of Paraguay and Universidad Católica of Chile in the group stage and Peñarol Montevideo Uruguay defeated in the semifinals. In the final, but they lost then the Argentine representative Estudiantes de La Plata. After Estudiantes La Plata won 2-1, Palmeiras won the return match at the Estádio do Pacaembu 3-1 would be by today's rules, that is goal difference, Libertadores winners have been. Since this was not yet interested, a playoff was needed, the Estudiantes won 2-0 in Montevideo. Ademir da Guia was used in all three finals, scoring a not jumped out.
In the course of his career, Ademir da Guia made a total of 901 games in the jersey Palmeiras. He scored 153 goals. His career ended in 1977 at the age of 35 years. He later became a politician and was elected in 2005 for the legislative period 2004 to 2008 in the city council of São Paulo.
National
Ademir da Guia came to a total of nine international matches in the Brazilian national football team. The first six operations accounted to 1965, the remaining three in 1974. During the same year he was on the Brazilian squad for the World Cup in Germany. In the World Championships, he came only once used. Meanwhile reached the Brazilian selection by a second place in the second round, the third-place match against Poland, where Da Guia made his only tournament in the 0-1 defeat in Munich. The game against Poland was also his last game wearing the national jersey, after nine games ended for him the chapter national team after the World Cup.