Mário Zagallo

Mário Jorge Lobo Zagallo, as Mário Zagallo known ( born August 9, 1931 in Maceió in Brazil), is a former Brazilian footballer and football coach with Lebanese descent. He is considered one of the most successful coaches in world football.

Zagallo is regarded as one of the legends of Brazilian football. The former coach, who was called by his players, " Professor ", was involved in three of the five World Cup title, the Brazilian as a player and coach. Due to its tactical reasons he was called El Lobo (the wolf ).

Playing career

The attacking midfielder and striker Mário Zagallo played from 1946 to 1950 for América FC, ​​in 1951 six years for Flamengo Rio de Janeiro. There he won from 1953 to 1955 the state championship in Rio de Janeiro. From the year 1958 to 1965 he played for Botafogo, with whom he (1962 1961 ) won twice this province championship. In 1962, with Botafogo also winner in Torneio Rio - São Paulo.

Zagallo completed 33 international matches, scoring five goals for the Brazilian national football team. 1958 and 1962, he was a left winger regular players of the Brazilian team that won the world title in succession twice. In 1958, he met in the final against Sweden and in 1962 in the opening match against Mexico. The forward line of this team consisted of both tournaments of Garrincha, Didi, Vavá, Pele ( after his injury in 1962: Amarildo ) and Zagallo.

Trainer career

Mário Jorge Lobo Zagallo coached more than a dozen football clubs between 1966 and 2001. His coaching career began in 1966 at Botafago, he has coached four years. Subsequently, he was one season with Fluminense, Flamengo and after four years with the national team again in Botafogo under contract. In 1978 he went to Saudi Arabia, where he was manager of Al -Hilal. However, it drew Zagallo after a year returned to his home and he signed for Vasco da Gama. He then coached the Clube de Regatas Flamengo de (1984 - 1985), Botafogo (1986 - 1987), Bangu (1988 - 1989) and Vasco da Gama (1990 - 1991). After his second engagement with the national team he coached in 2000 Portuguesa and at the end of his career for the third time Flamengo (2000 - 2001).

He won in 1968 with Botafogo, the Taça Brasil and in 1967, 1968, 1971, 1972 National Champion of Rio de Janeiro and in 1979 Saudi Arabian champions.

Zagallo was the first football player who won the World Cup both as a player ( 1958, 1962 ) and as a coach (1970 ) (both respectively with the Brazilian national team). Only Franz Beckenbauer has also won as a player and coach of the world champion title in football.

He coached the national team of his native country twice, the first time 1970-1974, the second time in 1994 until 1998, when he and his country became vice world champion at the 1998 World Cup. With Brazil, he won the 1997 Copa America. From 1993 to 1994 he was Technical Director of the national team and won the world title in 1994, the Brazilian as assistant coach.

Zagallo supervised a total of 154 games as coach of the national team: 110 games of which were won. This contrasts with 33 draws and eleven defeats.

Zagallo was the coach of the United Arab Emirates and led the team to the finals of the 1990 World Cup, which is the first and only to date finals participation of the country at all.

Achievements

• FIFA World Cup: 1958, 1962
• Torneio Rio - São Paulo: 1962, 1964
• State Championship in Rio de Janeiro: in 1953, 1954, 1955, 1961, 1962

• FIFA World Cup: 1970
• Copa América: 1997
• Confederations Cup: 1997
• Taça Independencia: 1972

• Taça Brasil: 1968
• State Championship in Rio de Janeiro: in 1967, 1968, 1972, 2001

• National football team (Brazil )
• Football World Cup
• Football coach (Brazil )
• Football coach
• Brazilian
• Born in 1931
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