Toninho Cerezo
Toninho Cerezo (1993 )
Antônio Carlos Cerezo, Toninho Cerezo called (* April 21, 1955 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil ), is a former Brazilian football player and current football coach.
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Career
Club career
Toninho Cerezo started his footballer career with Atlético Mineiro in his native city of Belo Horizonte. At the age of 16 he received his first professional contract in 1972 and debuted in the Série A. But in the following months, he did not often used. Therefore, he allowed himself to FC Nacional, where the man with the mustache matured team regular, borrow. In 1974 he returned to Atletico Mineiro. Again, he was now the time an important part of the team. Seven times ( 1976 and 1978-1983 ), he won the state championship of Minas Gerais, once the state championship by Amazon. 1977 and 1980 he was voted the best in 1976 as the second best player of the season.
After these successful times Toninho Cerezo took the plunge abroad, specifically to Italy. He was acquired by AS Roma. With Rome he won twice in 1984 and 1986 the trophy. In Serie A, he graduated from 1983 to 1986 for the Giallorossi 70 matches and scored 13 goals. The highlight was the finale on May 30, 1984 in Rome Europe Champions Cup against Liverpool. With team-mate Falcao the final ended 1-1 after extra time and penalty shoot-out put Liverpool 4-2 Goals by. After he graduated from in 1986 to 1992 Sampdoria. In the 1990/91 season he won with the Sampdoria under coach Vujadin Boskov and Gianluca Vialli and Roberto Mancini attacking partnership, the " Scudetto ", the championship. Prior to 1988 and 1989 succeeded the success in the cup. With Genoa he was at May 10, 1989 finalist for the European Cup Winners' Cup. A year later, on 9 May 1990 in Gothenburg, succeeded the EC triumph against RSC Anderlecht, Cerezo was an injury not present in the final. His last major appearance with Sampdoria he had in London's Wembley Stadium, as he played the final of the European Champion Clubs' Cup against FC Barcelona on 20 May 1992.
Toninho Cerezo played on the position of defensive midfielder.
National
His debut in the Brazilian national football team gave the midfielder of Atletico Mineiro in the international game on 10 March 1977 in Rio de Janeiro against Colombia ( 6-0 ). Among the highlights of his career in the Selecao were the two participations in the World Cup tournament in Argentina in 1978 and 1982 in Spain. In Argentina, he was in the three group matches against Sweden (1-1), Spain ( 0-0) and Austria (1-0 ) in use. In the second final round games were added against Peru ( 3-0) and Poland (3:1). The tournament ended with the 3rd place match on June 24 in Buenos Aires against Italy with a 2-1 success. Valuable players in the tournament were Dirceu, Zico and Roberto Dinamite.
1980/81 he took part in the " Mini World Cup " and was set in each game. Brazil won against world champions Argentina and European champions Germany, but lost the final against Uruguay.
With coach Tele Santana Cerezo took part in Spain at the World Cup tournament in 1982. In the first game against the Soviet Union, he was still sitting on the bench, in the group matches against Scotland ( 4-1) and against New Zealand ( 4-0) he belonged to the starting XI. In the final round he was on 2 July in Barcelona for the midfield with Socrates, Falcao and Zico, the defending champion Argentina had a 3-1 success in their place. Three days later, the disappointment was all the greater, as a center forward Paolo Rossi threw in a triumph with three goals for Italy Brazil by the 2:3 defeat of the tournament.