Jorge Vieira
Jorge Silva Vieira ( * July 18, 1934; † July 24, 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) was a Brazilian football coach, who worked on several continents.
The former right winger of Mardureira EC in Rio had his first coaching position in 1958, when he sat for a short time at Rio - top club Fluminense FC on the bench. Due to its relative youth, he was then just 24 years old, but still lacked the gravitas to prevail sustainable. Under his successor, the renowned Zezé Moreira, he remained, however, for the time being on the coaching staff.
In 1960, he led FC America for state championship - the seventh and last to date of the association. In the deciding match on the final day America suggested 100,000 viewers in Maracanã the league leaders, which is still coached by his former teacher Fluminense 2-1. Stars of the team were the later 21 -fold Mationalspieler Djalma Dias, who caused the penalty leading to 0:1 in this game, and the Right Wing Jorge de Souza " Jorge ", who scored the winning goal twelve minutes from time.
In the 1965/66 season he coached the club OS Belenenses Lisbon.
In the 1970s he coached the Botafogo FC of Ribeirão Preto, then a 200,000 population city in the hinterland of the state of São Paulo. With the exception of his then team, from the world of Star Sócrates emerged, the club first time in 1976 after 21 years rose again in the first State League. In 1977, he won there even the first phase of the State of São Paulo championship, what you then the Taça Cidade de São Paulo, received the " Cup of the city of São Paulo ".
Later in the year he took over in the state capital, the responsibility for SE Palmeiras, where he remained until 1978.
In three different phases - 1979-1980, 1983-1984 and 1986-1987 - he trained his archrival SC Corinthians Paulista in which he thereby - in the second year of the " democracy of Corinthians ," virtually as a player to the aforementioned Sócrates the fortunes of the association participated in the hand - the state championship in 1979 and 1983.
In 1985, he coached the national team of Iraq, the qualified under his leadership to date only once for a FIFA World Cup, although they had to play all home matches on neutral ground because of the ongoing war with Iran. At the tournament in 1986 in Mexico but sat Evaristo de Macedo his compatriot on the bench.
After his third phase at the Corinthians, he moved to Mexican side Club América tip, which he coached from 1987 to 1990 and with whom he won the 1988 and 1989 national championship.
In January 2007, he again took over as coach in his heart association America in Rio de Janeiro.
On 24 July 2012, he died in his hometown of Rio de Janeiro to a heart attack.
Success as a coach
- State Championship in Rio de Janeiro: 1960
- Mexican champion: 1988, 1989