Agenor Muniz (Australian footballer)
Agenor de Oliveira Muniz (* June 24, 1949 in sapucaia (RJ) ) is a former Brazilian- Australian football players. Originally he played in Rio de Janeiro at the CR Vasco da Gama. In 1971 he moved to Australia at the Hakoah Club with whom he was to win two titles in the following years. He also played for Adelaide City - he was with the club cup winners - and Pan - Hellenic. In 1975 he was naturalized and then played until 1979, twenty times for Australia.
Life
Born to the border with Minas Gerais as one of eleven siblings in sapucaia in the hinterland of the state of Rio de Janeiro - - In 1966 Agenor Muniz age of seventeen in the youth of the top club CR Vasco da Gama a. A year later, he was accepted at the Professionals. In the coming years, he failed to become part of the regular cast. Also on the historic day in Maracanã Stadium on November 19, 1969, when Santos FC Vasco won 2-1 and the legendary Pele before 165,000 spectators scored his thousandth goal he only reinforced the bank.
A film clip led the Hakoah Club in the Australian city of Sydney, the posted one formerly known as Eastern Suburbs club in the football competitions of the State of New South Wales, the midfielder Agenor Muniz with four other Brazilians like Luis de Melo and winger Hilton Silva to commit to the game 1971. President of the Association at that time was the later shopping center billionaire (→ Westfield ) and causative association head of the Football Federation Australia, Frank Lowy. In 1971 which was based in Bondi beach, the year 1939 declining Association of Jewish immigrants Premier of New South Wales, ie the club won the league part of the championship, but could be in the play-offs, where the best-placed teams playing off the eventual champion, not enforce. In addition, Hakoah won the State Cup with a 3-2 victory against the Association of Croatian immigrants from the south of the city, which later became Sydney United.
From 1973 to 1974 Muniz played at the Association of the Greeks, Pan - Hellenic, which renamed itself in later years in Sydney Olympic FC. There was in that year to gain little. On the contrary, a 1:7 defeat at home in Wentworth Park, which otherwise served as a competition venue for greyhound racing, against the St. George -Budapest Club - with World Cup participants from 1974 as Attila Abonyi and German-born milkman Manfred Schaefer one of the top teams of that era - provided stir. At the end of season 1973 Pan - Hellenic finished a disappointing ninth place in the zwölfvereinigen State League.
During a stay in Brazil Agenor Muniz wanted to actually settle there again, where he was a year of forced break as a footballer would, however, need to insert because at that time the Brazilians were abroad played only after four years for a Brazilian club accrues. The Australian Football Association on the other hand urged him to apply for Australian citizenship - to which he was entitled, after two years of establishment - and compete for the national team.
Agenor Muniz was naturalized and made his debut for the Australian national football team on 6 August 1975 in a 1-0 victory in a friendly football international match in Melbourne against Red China. On February 16, 1977, he scored in a 1-1 draw in Sydney against Israel his only goal for the so-called Socceroos. At the games for missed qualifying for the World Cup in 1978, he came, however, only in the first game, a 3-1 win against New Zealand in Sydney in late March 1977 for use. On 13 June 1979, he came in the 60th minute as a substitute in a 0-1 defeat in the first match under new coach Rudi Good village in a friendly match against New Zealand in Auckland turn to the last of his 20 official international games in which he scored a goal. In the colors of Australia, green and gold, he entered a total even 18 other unofficial games at for example against various club teams such as SL Benfica, Red star and Partizan Belgrade. On a European tour he lost it with Australia in November 1976 the Hamburger SV 1:2 and drew 1-1 draw against the second division weilandigen KSV Baunatal.
At club level, Muniz was in March 1974, after disputes over the transfer fee, again in the service of the Hakoah Club and won with the " Sleeping Giant of Sydney's football " in the same year on the side of Ray Baartz and Jimmy Mackay Premier of New South Wales, in handed it to the play-offs but again not to the state championship. In the coming seasons, the Hakoah occupied spaces in the table region. In 1976 he won with Hakoah the New South Wales State League Cup Final by a victory over Croatia.
In April 1977, Muniz denied with Sydney City the first five games in the National Soccer League Erstausspielung, which was named after a sponsor Philips Soccer League, and scored two goals. After a falling out with coach Gerry Khalidi, he joined In May 1977 the Adelaide City FC, said until then Juventus club of Italian immigrants, to, at the one goal he made his debut in the seventh match. Sydney City was at the end of the season first champion of Australia, Adelaide City fourth. Muniz won in 1979 with Adelaide at the side of the prolific Scottish international's John "Dixie" Deans, the " Peter Pan of Soccer", by a 3-2 final victory over St. George the Trophy of Australia. In 1980 he was second behind the Scottish Brisbane Lions SC defender Jim Hermiston, a police officer from Queensland, formerly of the Aberdeen FC won the Scottish Cup in the choice of Australia's Footballer of the Year.
As of February 1981, he again played for Hakoah and won with the club, which is now called Sydney City and was happy to entitle nicknamed " Slickers ", in the same year for the second time the Australian Championship. He then played for some time in the lowlands of the neusüdwalisischen State football. In 1983, he was judged to be Footballer of the Year of New South Wales. Over the years he coached here and there in unterklassigen area.
He remained a factotum of the Brazilian community of Sydney and was co-founder of the recreational game every Sunday round of Canarinhos, which originally held " canary " from 1972 in Moore Park, and since 1989 in Centennial Park. Their regular place there on Dickens Drive is also in official maps entered these days as the "Brazilian Field". In honor of the tele- visionary round leather football gurus of Australia kept the Canarinhos 2011 for the second time the " Les Murray Cup" for recreational teams from. The press still quotes him happy when he claims, for example, the order of the world champion coach Felipe Scolari to the Australian national team coach.