Flávio Costa

Flávio Costa ( born 14 September 1906 in Carangola, Minas Gerais, † November 22, 1999 in Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian football player and coach. In the latter role, he is in his home country as one of the greatest of his profession in the first half of the 20th century.

The player

From 1926 to 1936 played Flávio Costa 145 times in the black and red jerseys of CR Flamengo, scoring 15 goals. Mostly he was going to meet in the middle. As of September 1934, he served as player-coach.

Height of his playing career was winning the state championship in Rio de Janeiro, the Campeonato Carioca, 1927.

The coach

Flamengo

Costa coached from 1934 to 1937, 1938-1945, 1946, 1951-1952 and 1962-1965, the team of CR Flamengo in Rio de Janeiro. Between April 1937 and September 1938, he acted here also as assistant coach of Hungary Izidor " Dori " furrier.

Costa benefited from this encounter, especially since furrier arrival in Brazil brought a wave of innovation for the local football. The Hungarian example presented before the since the 1920s practiced in England WM system and introduced a more modern practices.

Costa won with Flamengo 1939-1944 four state championships in Rio de Janeiro. National competitions such as a Brazilian championship did not exist in those days.

Flávio Costa has accumulated the longest tenure of all coach of Flamengo.

Vasco da Gama

From 1947 to 1950 and from 1953 to 1956, he coached the city rivals Flamengo, the CR Vasco da Gama.

Under the direction of Flávio Costa Vasco won several state championships - 1947 and 1949 even undefeated. In addition, he led Vasco da Gama 1948 to victory in Campeonato Sul - Americano de Champ that. "South American Championship of Champions", the forerunner of the Copa Libertadores

National Coach of Brazil

From 1944 to 1950 he coached the Brazilian national football team and led them in 1950 at a tournament in their own country for the World Championship.

In three participations in the Copa América with Flávio Costa's leadership, Brazil had to be content with second place twice. But the 7-0 success in the final of 1949 against Paraguay, which took place in Rio de Janeiro, is still to this day record. Ademir de Menezes scoring also the date the only hat-trick in Copa America final.

He served the Brazilian national team for a game in 1955 and is approximately four months in 1956 as a coach. In his final game on August 8, 1956, he secured a 0-0 draw against Argentina in Buenos Aires to win the Taça do Atlântico the Erstausspielung, a private invitation tournament of the best national teams in South America. The third participant was Uruguay.

Parts of his terms of office were parallel with his activities as a club coach.

Flávio Costa has the third- longest tenure of all the Brazilian national coach accumulates, but although next to Mario Zagallo and Carlos Alberto Parreira still have more games to have two more trainers.

FC Porto

In the season 1956/57, Costa had his first tenure as coach of FC Porto in northern Portugal. He solved there an old known from: Dorival Knippel " Yustrich " was in the 1930s still at Flamengo goalkeeper. He came in the preseason about the club where she completed a sustained slowdown since 1940 title and was even able to get the double.

However, Flavio Costa succeeded here is not the big hit, although the vice-championship with just one point behind SL Benfica was far from negligible.

Comeback at Flamengo and career end in Porto

After the end of the season Costa returned to Rio de Janeiro and joined at the beginning of 1962 again his original club Flamengo. In the first year of his third comeback now in the black and red, there was nothing to celebrate. In the end he retired the Stars Dida and Henrique and the later world champion Gérson difference in the dispute and train further to Botafogo. 1963 Costa was again champion with Flamengo in Rio. It was the ninth Campeonato Carioca, while the fifth with Flamengo, who had now to have 14 tracks for him.

1964 was the success of the state championship. But Flamengo penetrated in sechtsten playout of the Cup of Brazil, the Taça do Brasil, until in the final. There, however, was the inspired Santos of Pele FC the measure of all things. With the 4:1 red - blacks were lost in the paulista African port city and at home there was only a meager 0-0. The historical class of men around Pele in those years is also shown by the fact that this was the fourth of five successes in series of Santos in this competition.

Middle of the year 1965, he left the Mengão for the last time and he made a comeback at FC Porto. This time he followed there Otto Glória, another great Carioca, in the dugout after. Glória was in the later 1940s in Rio de Janeiro still a student Costas. After he helped to Benfica in the 1950s to numerous titles, he led Porto just the fourth time in series runner-up. Dominant was in Portugal that year driven by the great Eusebio Benfica.

The season ended unsuccessfully for Costa and Porto. With eight points behind champions Porto was only third behind the two big clubs Lisbon. The now almost 60 -year-old champion coach said goodbye without a title of coaching. The Portuguese national team, meanwhile, traveled from England to the World Cup and made there under coach Otto Glória sensation.

Statistical Overview

1948 - Campeonato Sul - Americano de Champ 1949 - State Championship in Rio de Janeiro 1950 - State Championship in Rio de Janeiro

1940 - Torneio Rio - São Paulo 1942 - State Championship in Rio de Janeiro 1943 - State Championship in Rio de Janeiro 1944 - State Championship in Rio de Janeiro

• Football coach (Brazil )
• Born in 1906
• Died in 1999
• Man