Newton de Sordi

Nílton De Sordi was in later years by Parkinsons disease confined to a wheelchair.

Nílton De Sordi, also known as Newton De Sordi or only De Sordi, ( born February 14, 1931 in Piracicaba, São Paulo, † August 24 2013 in Bandeirantes, Paraná ) was a Brazilian football player. He was almost the whole of his career for FC São Paulo and was active with the national team of his native country in 1958 football World Cup.

Career

Club career

Nílton de Sordi started his footballing career at the club Esporte Clube XV de Novembro in his home town of Piracicaba For the club Nílton de Sordi began in 1949 at the age of eighteen years to play. In 1952 he moved to FC São Paulo.

With São Paulo Nílton de Sordi won in 1953 and 1957, twice the Campeonato Paulista, the State Championship of São Paulo. As part of the state championship came Nílton de Sordi, who was better known over the years under the name Newton de Sordi to 536 inserts for the Tricolor, a scoring it did not succeed. He played in 1965 for football and 1960 also saw the opening of the new stadium of the club, the Estádio do Morumbi, which was in those years as one of the largest stadiums in the world that was owned by an association.

His last game for São Paulo made ​​Newton de Sordi on 16 June 1965 13.5 years after his debut with the club on the first of January 1951. After his playing career, Newton de Sordi was, who acted in the position of a defender, football coach. He coached some unterklassige Brazilian clubs and had the greatest success in winning the state championship of Paraná, the Campeonato Paranaense, in 1966, as a responsible manager of União Bandeirante, since 2006, a defunct club from Bandeirantes.

National

Newton de Sordi it brought 1955-1961 to 22 matches in the Brazilian national football team. With it, he took first in 1956 at the South American Championship in Uruguay in part, where Brazil only fourth behind Uruguay, Chile and Argentina was. Two years later at the World Cup 1958 in Sweden could do better and in the end won for the first time the title of the Football World Champion. Even Newton de Sordi was in the line-up of today's record world champion and was used in all games of Brazilians, with the exception of the final. There, coach Vicente Feola Djalma Santos on Newton de Sordis a position. Brazil won the final against hosts Sweden thanks to two goals from Pelé and Vavá and a hit by Mário Zagallo 5-2 and crowned himself the first time to the football World Cup.