Jair da Costa

Jair da Costa (2008)

Jair da Costa called Jair, ( born July 9, 1940 in Santo André, Sao Paolo ) is a former Brazilian footballer.

Jair was born in Santo André and raised from the age of nine in Osasco on. He came to the club Portuguesa in São Paulo, there rose in 1960 in the first team and was soon appointed to it in the squad of the Brazilian national football team.

Discovered by an emissary of AC Milan, he was found at the trial in Milan for too delicate. The people in charge of Inter Milan and its president Angelo Moratti thought otherwise and committed Jair 1962. Bureaucratic delays the release, which culminated in the picturesque attempt to find an Italian great-grandmother of Jair, meant that he could be used only on 8 Round. After two minutes in the Inter- shirt he already scored his first goal and won in a row with the team four Italian championship titles. 1963, 1965, 1966 and 1971 between, played Jair 1967-1968 a year for AS Roma.

With Inter Jair also twice won the European Champions Cup in 1964 and 1965. Around the same time he also won twice the World Cup for club teams. His most important goal for Inter, he scored in the final of the Masters Cup in 1965 against Benfica, which ended 1-0.

1972 Jair returned back to Brazil, where he played until 1974, two years alongside Pele for Santos before moving to Canada at Windsor Star ended his career in 1976.

Jair special talent as a right winger was in his fast, effective recruitment, a sophisticated and effective ball handling along with a perfect dribbling. Memorable are his actions on flank of been moved left-back Giacinto Facchetti. Jair was a very modern player and the perfect complement in the storm of the legendary Grande Inter.

For the Brazilian national football team Jair played only once. When victorious for Brazil World Cup 1962 in Chile Jair belonged with the number 18 in the squad, but came - displaced by the legendary Garrincha - in the tournament never used.