Paulo Amaral

Paulo Lima Amaral ( born October 18, 1923 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, † 1 May 2008 ) was a Brazilian football player and coach. After a brief playing career in the 1940s with CR Flamengo and Botafogo FR, he was at the World Championships in 1958 and 1962 on the coaching staff of Brazil. But his greatest personal achievement was the Brazilian championship with Fluminense FC in 1970 as a coach. Coach stations in Europe included the Juventus FC and FC Porto.

Career

Paulo Amaral played during his relatively short career as a professional soccer player in Rio de Janeiro as a defender from 1942 to 1945 with CR Flamengo and 1946-1948 at Botafogo FR.

As late as 1948 he took up an apprenticeship as a sports teacher, and finally closed in 1953, a trainer diploma. After that, he was first conditioning coach and later manager of the reserve. Later he was on the coaching staff of the Brazilian national team. Amaral was the first conditioning coach of the Seleção and when winning the world championship 1958 in Sweden and 1962 in Chile there.

Then Amaral left the Brazilian national team and moved his activities to Europe. Here he coached Juventus, where he was runner-up in 1963, and Genoa in Italy.

After his temporary return to Brazil in 1966, he coached Atlético Mineiro and 1967-1968 the EC Bahia. In 1970 he celebrated the biggest success of his career when he as an outsider to win the Roberto Gomes Pedrosa Torneio, a respected as a precursor of the Brazilian Championship competition, led the Fluminense FC. In 1971, he coached Vasco da Gama, before he in the same year back in Europe with FC Porto took over, in which he remained until 1972 and only reached a disappointing 5th place.

More coach stations Botafogo FR, the national team of Paraguay, the FC America in Rio de Janeiro, the Clube do Remo in northeast Brazil Belém and the Al -Hilal RC in Riyadh, where he finished his career in 1978.

After he was still honored by the Brazilian Association for his contribution to the success of the national team in 2006, he died in 2008 at his home in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro at the age of 84 years to cancer.