Moacir Claudino Pinto

Moacir 2008

Moacir Claudino Pinto ( born May 18, 1936 in São Paulo), better known as Moacir is a former Brazilian football player who was world champion in 1958 with the national team of his native country.

Career

Club career

Moacir Claudino Pinto, born on May 18, 1936 in São Paulo, his footballing career started in 1956 at Flamengo Rio de Janeiro. Until 1961, he played in 225 games for the club with which he in 1961 shortly before his move to the Argentine top club CA River Plate the Torneio Rio - São Paulo, the most traditional tournament between the best soccer teams of both cities Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo won, . After his move to River Plate in 1962 he left the club in Buenos Aires after a year and 28 games in La Liga ( seven goals) and went back to Flamengo. Here he made a play and changed in the same year for the Uruguayan champions Peñarol of Montevideo series. Moacir remained until 1963 with Peñarol and won in the 1962 season the Uruguayan soccer championship with a first place in the final table in front of the local rivals Nacional Montevideo. In 1963, he was then obliged CD Everest from Guayaquil in Ecuador. There and in which likewise came from the Barcelona SC Guayaquil was Moacir end his footballing career until 1966. In the last year of his playing career he won the Ecuadorian Championship with Barcelona SC.

National

Moacir was used six times in the years 1957 and 1958 in the Brazilian national football team. Here he succeeded in two goals. He was Brazil's coach Vicente Feola of appointed to the South American squad for the FIFA World Cup 1958 in Sweden. In the tournament, he was, however, not used. Meanwhile reached his side, which was equipped with world-class players like the young Pele or Garrincha the final, in which one prevailed 5-2 in Råsundastadion Stockholm against hosts Sweden.