Orlando Peçanha de Carvalho

, Mostly just called Orlando Peçanha de Carvalho Orlando Peçanha, ( born September 20, 1935 in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, † February 10, 2010 in Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian football player. With the Brazilian national team, he was world champion in 1958. At club level he had in Brazil with CR Vasco da Gama and the Santos FC and Argentina with Boca Juniors great success. With his powerful style of play and the ability to read the game, he is one of the best defenders of the Brazilian football history.

Life

1953 Orlando Peçanha joined the youth of the top club CR Vasco da Gama in Rio de Janeiro, where he aufrückte in the first team in 1954. With the club after the end of its heyday in the previous years, where he attended as Expresso da Vitória furore, he won in 1956, under coach Flávio Costa, and in 1958 the state championship in Rio de Janeiro. 1958 also succeeded in winning the Torneio Rio - São Paulo - in the absence of a national competition it a highly sought-after titles in that time. Together with Hideraldo Luiz Bellini, who was also captain of the national soccer team of Brazil, he formed a strong case Abwehrduo.

Triumph at the World Cup in Sweden

In May in 1958 Orlando Peçanha made ​​his debut with the national team. In São Paulo, the Seleção won it against Bulgaria 3-1. Even a month later, he was taken away on a trip to Sweden for the Football World Cup 1958. There Orlando Peçanha formed together with Bellini the defensive backbone of the Seleção, who impressed the world with the brilliant offensive players Garrincha, Didi, Vavá and the 17 -year-old Pele and with a brilliant 5-2 playoff victory over Sweden for the first time won the title to Brazil.

In 1959 he participated with Brazil at the Copa America in Argentina. With the score at 0-1, he was there were any references in the game against Uruguay, together with a further two Brazilians and Urus of the field. Brazil won the match 3-1. Overall, it was enough only for second place behind the hosts.

In 1960, he won it with the Seleção the Taça do Atlântico, in that year was also attended by the national teams of Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay.

Master in Argentina

In February 1961 Orlando Peçanha moved to Boca Juniors in Buenos Aires, where at the same time also his coach at the World Cup 1958, Vicente Feola for a year sitting on the bench. In the Press bonarenser he became soon the Señor del fútbol and the club for the game leader. In his time at the club at the mouth of the Riachuelo, he won the championships in 1962, 1964 and 1965., But at the last title win, he played only three times in Boca jersey prior to joining Santos.

But the highlight of his time with Boca Juniors was probably reaching the final of the Copa Libertadores. This was the first time that an Argentine club reached the continental finals. In the discharged in September finals but the Juniors were subject to at the time the world belonged to the Santos FC with 2:3 and 1:2. The outstanding Boca Juniors player this year, José Sanfilippo scoring all the hits for the club from Buenos Aires.

During his time at Boca Juniors he played with, among others also with his compatriots Dino Sani, Paulinho Valentim and Almir Pernambuquinho and the captain of the Argentine national Rattín Antonio. For the Boca Juniors he was a total of 119 times on the ball, with him but managed not to score.

For the 1962 FIFA World Cup in Chile Orlando Peçanha was not taken because he played abroad. Only at the tournament in Spain in 1982 with Falcão AS Roma and Dirceu, who was under contract with Atlético Madrid, invited Legionnaires for the game in the Seleção.

Cup of Brazil with Santos and WM -off in England

In 1965, in Argentina has become very popular Orlando Peçanha adopted by Buenos Aires and returned to Brazil. In the same year he won the Taça Brasil Santos FC which, introduced in 1959 the national cup competition. In the final, while Vasco da Gama was calculated as the enemy. However, the team from Rio had no chance against the Stars to Pele and lost the finals with 1:5 and 0:1. In the same year, and in 1967 he won the state championship with Santos and São Paulo.

With the Football World Cup 1966 Orlando Peçanha was again in the squad of Brazil. He came only to use one. On behalf of Bellini, he was captain of the Brazilian team to the player as Eusébio ind Mário Coluna lost in the decisive group game against Portugal with 1:3 and had to say goodbye so of the tournament. With his only defeat of the national team ended his international career at this point. Overall, he ran 34 times for Brazil, of which 30 times in A- internationals.

In early 1970 he return again very shortly to Vasco da Gama returned and settled there his playing career at the age of 34 years fade away permanently.

As a trainer, he then worked among other CS Alagoano 1977 and 1980 EC Vitória. But particular note is mainly his work as Chairman of the Brazilian coach Association, the Associação Brasileira de Futebol de Treinadores.

In February 2010, he died in a hospital in Botafogo in the south of Rio de Janeiro at the age of 74 years due to heart failure. He was buried in the local cemetery São João Batista.

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Title:

• FIFA World Cup: 1958
• Taça do Atlântico: 1960

• Football Championship of Argentina: 1962, 1964, 1965
• Taça Brasil: 1965
• Torneio Rio - São Paulo: 1958
• State Championship in Rio de Janeiro: in 1956, 1958
• State Championship of São Paulo: 1965, 1967