Francisco Aramburu
Francisco Aramburu, known only as Chico ( born January 7, 1922 in Uruguaiana, Rio Grande do Sul, † 1 October 1997 in Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian football player. In the club CR Vasco da Gama striker was in the 1940s and 1950s, part of the golden era of the club. With the Brazilian national team, he lost in the World Cup 1950, received as Maracanaço in the history of playoff against Uruguay. In addition, he was one of the main characters of the scandal -prone playoff Brazil against Argentina at the Copa América 1946, which affected the football relations between the two countries sustainable.
Career
Chico started his footballer career in 1939 as a 17- year-old in his situated on the Argentine border hometown when EC Ferro Carril. Just one year later he could move to Grêmio in the state capital, Porto Alegre, where he could put his talents at a higher level on display.
Already in 1942, he was brought Gama in the former national capital of Rio de Janeiro from CR Vasco da. The traditional club with the Maltese cross in the coat of arms was his time behind Fluminense, Botafogo, Flamengo and the America FC only number five of the metropolis.
Coinciding with Chico took the Uruguayan success coach Ondino Viera, who had already won the Argentine Club CA River Plate and Flamengo five championships, his activities within the club on. This led not only which has since become typical diagonal sash - inspired by River Plate - on the jerseys of a Vasco, but also brought a tactical innovations. The former boxer Mário Américo joined in 1942 Vasco da Gama as a massage therapist and physical caregivers - he should accompany away from 1950, the national seven world championships as a physical Managers and gain worldwide fame as a factotum itself.
By 1945, succeeded Ondino Viera put together a powerful team that had to fear no comparison and the club captured the sixth undefeated state championship in club history. The Expresso da Vitória ( " Victory Express" ), than which the team of the years 1945 to 1952 went down in history, benefited especially from his forward line Ademir scorer Lele, Isaías, Jair da Rosa Pinto and Chico on the left wing. This had earned up to that point the reputation of being powerful, fast, beidfüßigen Dribblers with sharp shot and was soon considered for the national team into consideration.
In December 1945, he played in São Paulo against Argentina in the Copa Roca game to his first international match for Brazil. The hosts lost 3:4, but could in the return leg at the Estádio São Januário, Vasco's homestead, achieve Rio 6-2 their biggest ever victory against arch-rivals. Chico contributed with his first international goal in this victory and secured the trophy in Brazil became necessary decision game with a 3-1 win at the same place a few days later.
Even in these games was gone robust to the point, so the Argentinean Batagliero suffered in a duel with the only 20 -year-old Ademir de Menezes a broken leg.
Scandal match in Buenos Aires
In February 1946 Chico participated with the national team in the Copa América in Argentina. There he got in the first game 4-3 final score against the generally disappointing tournament in Uruguay. On the final day of the tournament, the two unbeaten teams Argentina and Brazil were in the Estádio Monumental de Nuñez of Buenos Aires in front of 80,000 spectators over. After 28 minutes, it came to a head.
The Brazilian Jair supplied with Salomón a fierce duel, in which the latter suffered a broken leg, which he should never recover again. Argentina Fonda wanted to take to the fleeing into the cabin Jair revenge, but was stopped from Chico, which in turn was handled even by an Argentinean and soon the square of the current police officers. With the help of the Uruguayan referee Nobel Valentini, who directed him in the course of the action together with an Argentinean of the field, and an agent of the Special Police of Rio Chico finally succeeded to find in the catacombs of the stadium protection.
After the pitch was finally overrun by numerous spectators, who were driven by the police only with gas insert back. After a 70 -minute stoppage in play, the Brazilians were not used until the square back after it has been interpreted them that otherwise their safety could not be guaranteed. At the end of the Argentine team defeated by stars such as Adolfo Pedernera Angel Labruna and Félix Loustau Brazil 2-0.
The impact of this game were sustainable. By 1956, there were no other games between the two countries. Brazil decided not to take part in the Copa América in 1947 and 1955, Argentina to participate in the tournaments of 1949 and 1953. More important however, was the non-participation of Argentina at the World Cup 1950 in Brazil.
As for Chico, who was visiting his family on the way back in Uruguaiana. Twelve Argentine soldiers gave him on the train ride to the border escort, where he was greeted by an enthusiastic crowd.
South American Cup champion with Vasco
At club level, there were in 1946 under new coach Ernesto Santos only a disappointing 5th place. 1947, a successful coach was with the Izidor furrier students Flávio Costa, the four times won the state title with Flamengo 1939-1944, again brought to the club. Costa was from 1944 to 1950 at the same time national coach. Under him, the team has been further strengthened and in the same year Vasco won again - again unbeaten - the state championship. In this capacity, and also because the state selection of Rio won the tournament the state teams, Vasco was the Brazilian representative at the Campeonato Sul - Americano de Champ, who ordered " South American Championship of Champions", which was held in March 1948 in Santiago de Chile,.
The decisive game against favorites River Plate from Buenos Aires, with players like Moreno, Labruna Loustau, Rossi and the emerging young star Alfredo Di Stéfano one of the most glamorous club formations of all time, is considered one of the outstanding performances of Chico. His hit was indeed denied recognition by the Uruguayan referee Nobel Valentini - middle of the second half, he referred him after a tussle with the Argentines Méndez even the field - but the press reported, Chico " has struggled as a lion ." The offensive led, combative game ended goalless, with which the Maltese cruisers also won this trophy undefeated and also the first Brazilian club team were that achieved a significant success abroad.
After Vasco was defeated in 1948 at the state level just Botafogo, was the Expresso Vitória de 1949 back to full steam again undefeated and won the championship of Rio.
World Cup 1950
Flávio Costa called Chico in Brazil's squad for the World Cup 1950 in their own country, in which the team ran as a big favorite. Chico but had the first two games still watching and came first to the later of the two Bundesliga coaches Zlatko Čajkovski and Ivica Horvat started Yugoslavs used where the collection was ensured in the final group with a 2-0 win. There, Brazil ran the first two opponents Sweden and Spain with 7:1 or 6:1 and Chico contributed to both successes two goals each in. His goal for 4-0 against Spain it was the 300th goal of the history of the World Cup finals. In the playoff Uruguay, which could only thanks to a late winner against Sweden door to keep open the title decider waited.
Before the world record crowd of 200,000 spectators being beaten with six players from Vasco da Gama Brazil, where a draw would have been enough for titles went, shortly after the beginning of the second half by Friaça lead. But after 80 minutes, the underdogs Uruguay was the horror of the spectators with a 2-1 lead. In the remaining time the Brazilians did not succeed much. In the final minute, it might have been enough to compensate, but the edge of Ademir de Menezes before the gate was too hesitant, so that the Uruguayan goalkeeper Roque Máspoli had enough time to trap the ball in the five-meter space in front of the head Chicos. The game went down in history as Maracanaço.
This quasi- final was the last match for Chico and many other Brazilian players - and coaches Costa, although this was a few years later re-appointed to the coach.
Last football season
With Vasco da Gama was able to defend the state championship for the first time Chico in the same year, although no longer unbeaten, as with the three title wins before.
After another championship from 1952, the time of the Expresso de Vitória, the golden era of Vasco da Gama went there to end. Even the star of Chico dwindled away, and the now 30 -year-old had more often to make do with the bank. His career ended finally with CR Flamengo for the 1955 and 1956 he completed two more games.
Men
Title
- Campeonato Sul - Americano de Champ: 1948
- State Championship in Rio de Janeiro: in 1945, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1952