Gylmar dos Santos Neves
Gilmar and Pelé ( crying ) after winning the title in 1958
Gylmar dos Santos Neves ( born August 22, 1930 in Santos, † August 25, 2013 in São Paulo) was a Brazilian football player.
Gilmar played as a goalkeeper from 1951 to 1961 at SC Corinthians Paulista and changed in 1961, Pelé club Santos. He played for Brazil 1958-1966 in three World Cups and won the title at the World Cup 1958 in Sweden and in the 1962 World Cup in Chile. In 1969, he finished at FC Santos at the age of 39 years of his career.
Clubs
He grew up as the son of a merchant in Santos Gilmar dos Santos Neves began his career as a soccer goalkeeper at Jabaquara AC Santos and moved in 1951 to Corinthians, where he celebrated winning the Campeonato Paulista immediately. Overall, this success he achieved eight times. In 1961 he was keeper at Pele club Santos. Corinthians was the goalkeeper of the World Cup team of 1958 in Sweden pull release for $ 3,000. 1962 ( against CA Peñarol ) and 1963 ( vs CA Boca Juniors), he won with FC Santos the Copa Libertadores and the Intercontinental Cup in addition. In the World Cup itself Gilmar and his team-mates from FC Santos against Benfica Lisbon 1962 ( 3:2 / 5:2 ) and against AC Milan in 1963 in three games ( 4:2, 2:4, 1:0) prevailed. Gilmar dispensed with the usual " show parades " and gave his back line as the necessary rest. In addition to excellent responsiveness he had a feline suppleness and dexterity. In his stoic calm he was comparable with goalkeeper colleagues in a class such as Banks, Yashin and Zoff.
National
In the Brazilian national team goalkeeper for Corinthians debut on 1 March 1953 in Lima during the match against Bolivia. During a trip to Europe with games in April and May in 1956 against Portugal, Switzerland, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Italy, Turkey and England Gilmar guarded as the undisputed support of the Seleção the gate and came to prominence as a "Penalty Killer " a name. Only the defender pair Djalma Santos and Nílton was already in the season 1956/57 - the year before the 1958 World Cup - undisputed as the main cast of the national team. Gilmar advanced by the achievements of the European tour to number one for the World Cup 1958 in Sweden and thus supplanted the previous goalkeeper Castilho Fluminense Rio de Janeiro, which is still in goal during the 1954 World Cup. Only in the semi-final against France conceded Gilmar, which ran aground with the extremely unusual for a goalkeeper shirt number 3, on 24 June 1958 at Råsundastadion in Stockholm by Just Fontaine and Roger Piantoni the first goals of the World Cup days in Sweden in 1958. Just four obtained results clearly demonstrate the importance of Gilmar was the success of the Brazilian.
He saved many a time with its sovereignty and thus also peace emanating class, his team conceded. After losing the prestige duel for the Americas Cup against Argentina Gilmar was banned from the national team. Also at Corinthians he moved temporarily into second place. Only after his transfer to FC Santos, he moved back into the national team for the World Cup 1962. During the title defense in Chile, its qualities translated back through impressively. For the second time in a row Gilmar was now the one, the calming influence of the Seleção in a World Cup. The defense was in Chile - as opposed to 1958 in Sweden - called for significantly more. Some service providers were noted four more years and the violation of Pele was already wearing in the group much to the fact that only with attacking football title defense would not succeed. Only five goals suffered Gilmar on the way to winning the title again. He was Undeniably this tournament performance to the best of the few class goalkeeper of Brazil. When goalkeeper century election in Brazil, he came in first place in South America in fourth.
After the success of days in Chile Gilmar had to give way in the gate the talent manga. Just before the 1966 World Cup in England, the 36 -year-old veteran got a new chance. He played on the island of the two group matches against Bulgaria and Hungary, and was replaced by manganese in the decisive third game against Portugal. In the media Gilmar was chalked the 1-3 defeat on 15 July at Goodison Park in Liverpool against Hungary. The resignations of Didi, Nílton Santos and Vavá and the injury-related absence of the world's best footballer Pelé against the team of Flórián Albert and Ferenc Bene were thus pushed into the background.
Gilmar was in 14 World Cup games in goal. The 2-1 victory on 12 June 1969 in Rio de Janeiro against England, the popular goalkeeper of FC Santos played his farewell game at the National Dress. From 1953 to 1969, he had played 94 international matches for Brazil.
After the career
Gilmar was for a short time supervisor of the national team. When Santos, he was a coach and official in the commitment and he sat down as head of the players union for the needs of professionals in. Business secured, he was mainly used as the owner of two car agencies in São Paulo.
Achievements
- World Cup 1958
- World Cup 1962