Moacir Barbosa Nascimento

Paulo Moacyr Barbosa Nascimento ( in the notation Moacir; born March 27, 1921 in Campinas, † April 7, 2000 in Santos) was a Brazilian football goalkeeper and national team.

Life

Barbosa started his career in 1940 when ADCI in São Paulo, moved to CA in 1942 and played Ypiranga from 1945 to 1955 for the CR Vasco da Gama in Rio de Janeiro. Outstanding is the profit in the Campeonato Sul - Americano de Champ in 1948, the predecessor of the Copa Libertadores. Three times he won the championship in Rio de Janeiro. After that he played until 1962 at Santa Cruz FC, ​​Bonsucesso and Campo Grande.

He was one of the world's best goalkeepers of his time, denied 1945-1953 20 matches, won with Brazil the Copa America 1949. The 7-0 defeat of Brazil in the final against Paraguay is still the largest margin of victory in a final of this competition. In 1953 he was second with the Brazilian team.

With the Football World Cup 1950 he was one of the Seleção, the vice world champion in their own country. Barbosa was one of the most outstanding player of the 1950 World Cup, but in the decisive match of the final round, the so-called Maracanaço, Brazil lost entirely surprising against the Uruguayan national football team 1-2. Eleven minutes before the final whistle played Alcides Ghiggia the Brazilian defender Bigode on the right side and fired the ball into the near post. Barbosa, who had expected a pass in the middle of the six-yard was blamed on the Uruguayan winning goal. He was made ​​a scapegoat, and has ever since been in Brazil as persona non grata.

In 2000 he said in an interview: " In Brazil, the law provides for 30 years in prison for a murder. It is far more than this time since the finale of 1950 passed and I still feel imprisoned, people see in me is still the culprit for our defeat. " Belonged to the humiliations that even in 1994 at a World Cup qualifying match between Brazil Uruguay coach Parreira and his goalkeeper Taffarel any contact with Barbosa banned. A Brazilian soccer official is said to have " Take him away, he just brings bad luck " of the stadium referred him as saying. The antipathy towards the Afro-Brazilian goalkeeper is also attributed to racism.

Clubs

Achievements

  • With Brazil Copa América: 1949
  • Vice World Champion 1950
  • Campeonato Sul - Americano de Champ: 1948
  • Torneio Rio - São Paulo: 1958
  • Campeonato Carioca: 1945, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1958

In the arts

  • Barbosa plays an important role in the award- winning British novel Brasyl by Ian McDonald in the year 2007. Among other things, it comes in the novel therefore, that a committed journalist sets out to search for Barbosa to take this with a trick before a tribunal, in which the Brazilian nation can take revenge on him.
  • Barbosa's life story is also the main theme of the Italian novel The Last Parade of Moyacyr Barbosa ( Eds. Arnoldo Mondadori published, in Italy in 2005 ) of Darwin Pastor ( Italian L'ultima di parata Moacyr Barbosa ).
Santos, São Paulo Ian McDonald (British author)
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