Zito (footballer)
Zito (2008)
José Ely de Miranda, better known by his fighting name Zito, ( born August 8, 1932 in Roseira, São Paulo ) is a former Brazilian football player and manager of Santos FC. With the Brazilian national team, he was in 1958 and 1962 World Champion. In addition, the defensive midfielder was captain of the team from Santos, which dominated the stages of the world to the early 1960s.
Life
Zito ( a short form of José ) was born 1932 in Roseira, a small town in the valley of the Rio Paraíba do Sul in the east of the state of São Paulo, the son of a shopkeeper. As part of his training, it pulled the 16 -year-old Zito to neighboring Taubaté, where he joined the local football club. He impressed at the amateur club EC Taubaté and already had an offer from the capital club Palmeiras São Paulo 1952 with but a better-paid offer of Santos FC, champion of São Paulo from 1935, in the port city. There he soon felt so much at home that he himself was in February 1953 to still a club member.
The first successes in Santos
Likewise, he soon made himself indispensable as the central defensive player in midfield. He controlled the game and the pace of the team and was the extended arm of the coach Lula on the court. 1955 and 1956 won the state championship Santos São Paulo and Zito so that his first title. In addition, Zito made his debut in November 1955 at the Pacaembu Estádio São Paulo against Paraguay as substitute players in the national team. In January 1956, he came under manager Osvaldo Brandão in a match of the Copa America 1956 Uruguay used where Brazil but only disappointing fourth. This also appointed him to the Copa America 1957 in Peru, where Brazil was second this time. Zito came but only to use as a change of players.
Zito was Feola Under the new national coach Vicente also included in the squad for the World Cup 1958 in Sweden, where it was used only in the third, for the next round group match against the same number of points belonging to favorites Soviet Union with the famous goalkeeper Lev Yashin. Until the final - on the way there the Seleção still Wales, which had to play without their injured star John Charles, and France eliminated the time of his miracles striker Just Fontaine - Zito remained in the team. The Brazil There fetched with memorable players like Garrincha, Djalma Santos and Nílton, Didi, Vavá and the new Pele on just unforgettable way with a 5-2 victory against hosts Sweden for the first time the world title.
End of the year he won with Santos again the state championship, with Pelé with 58 goals set a perpetual record in 38 games, and in 1959 also at that time, in the absence of a national football competition, highly valuable Torneio Rio - São Paulo with the best teams in the two States. He was also a regular player at the Copa América 1959 in Argentina, where Brazil was second behind the hosts. By the end of the year, Santos FC came in the final of the first national competition of Brazil, the Taça Brasil, the Brazil Cup, before. At the finals in December against EC Bahia both clubs each won once and won the Bahia in March 1960 at the Maracanã stadium in Rio de Janeiro discharged playoff 3-1.
On the other hand, Santos won the 1960 state championship again. 1961 won the Santos FC at the now nicknamed Gerentor ( "Manager") appointed captain Zito, often with clever passes the striker Pele and Coutinho knew how to set the scene, the third attempt for the first time the Taça Brasil and retaliated after a 1-1 draw in the first leg 5-1 against EC Bahia. Thus qualified, the fish, such as the soccer players of Santos are also called, for the Copa Libertadores 1962.
Of titles in 1962 and 1963
There Santos penetrated into the finals against the defending champion Uruguayan Penarol. In Montevideo Brazilians won by two goals from Coutinho 2-1. The Ecuadorian striker legend Alberto Spencer met for the Uruguayans. The also met twice in Santos, where Peñarol with a 3-2 victory could turn the tables. In overdue playoff in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires Santos was too strong for the Uruguayans and won with two goals from Pelé 3-0 and grabbing himself the first international title in club history. In September and October, finally found the place in the World Cup finals against the winner of the European Cup of Champions Benfica. After Santos presented when discharged at the Maracanã in Rio the first leg 3-2, had the Portuguese around stars like Eusébio and Mário Coluna in the return game a chance and went to Lisbon under 2:5. Until five minutes before the end, the fish were even 5-0 front.
In April Santos already had the Taça Brasil and defended in December followed at national level of the third series of successes at the state championship. Thus, the Santos FC won all four competitions in which he has competed; the Rio - São Paulo, which had already visibly declined in importance, the fish did not occur to.
But Zito was allowed to celebrate mid-year to another even greater success. The world championship of 1962 At the tournament in Chile, he belonged to tribe Formation of Brazil, and participated in all games. In the final, Czechoslovakia went after 15 minutes by Josef Masopust, in that year Footballer of the Year of Europe, in the lead, but Amarildo of the early in the tournament injured Pelé replaced, looked like just two minutes later. It took until the 69th minute before Zito brought the Brazilians on the road to victory after a cross from Amarildo head. Zwöf minutes before the end Vavá increased to 3:1 and secured Brazil thus the title defense in the history of the World Cup, the second and so far last.
1963 was again a year of triumphs for Santos FC. In March, the club took victory in the Rio São Paulo and also the third win in the Taça Brasil in series. Again met Santos in the final here on the EC Bahia, but triumphed this time clearly with 6:0 and 2:0. In the finals of the Copa Libertadores in September 1963 Santos defeated the Argentinian master CA Boca Juniors 3-2 and 2-1 and was thus able to repeat the success from last year. In October this time was the AC Milan of the European representatives. This came to, among other things with the Brazilian world champions of 1958 and 1962 José Altafini and Amarildo and Gianni Rivera as midfielder conductors and won at home in a game as the Batalha de Milão ( " Battle of Milan " ) became notorious 4-2. In the return match in November before 150,000 spectators at the Maracana in Rio this time Santos won without injured in the first leg Zito, Calvet and the two -goal Pele is encountered fish with 4:2. In the hard-fought playoff again two days later at the same place won the still spare weakened Santos by a penalty 1-0. The Santos defender Ismael and the Italian Cesare Maldini, father of Paolo Maldini, were dismissed. Severed Third - - In a further four titles, the relatively poor performance in the state championship was not difficult to weight.
1964 Santos difference in the Libertadores against the winner, the Bonarenser suburban club CA Independiente with two defeats in the semifinals. But first National was the troika of Taça Brasil, the Torneio Rio - São Paulo and the state championship to be won. Also in 1965 came the now somewhat obsolete in the years Team in the Libertadores semi-final not on the outside, where this time Peñarol in the extension of the decision game kept the upper hand. National Fish defeated the CR Vasco da Gama in the final of the Taça Brasil 5-1 and 1-0 and got themselves so that the title five consecutive times.
1966 again was followed by a gain of the Rio São Paulo and Zito was appointed to the levy of the national team for the World Cup in England. In June Zito played in the 1-1 draw in pre-season friendly against Scotland in his 40th and last international match. Brazil arbitration at the World Championships in the preliminary round and Zito was not used. In 1967, he won yet his total ninth state championship in São Paulo and he finished so that his playing career. In his 15 years with the club he won the club a total of 22 tracks. In Santos inherited his jersey with the number 5 Clodoaldo in Mexico with Brazil became world champion in 1970.
Football Director at Santos
In later years, he was appointed director of football at Santos FC, a position he held until December 2009. In this period also fell Championships Santos in 2002 and 2004 - the first national title of the club since 1965 -. Well as the state championships in 2006 and 2007 stars such as Robinho and the interim Bremer Diego came at that time out in the club.
Today the arena of his hometown Roseira is named after him and at the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2007 he had the honor to be the first torchbearer in Santos. In addition, since 1994, is a prestigious amateur soccer tournament, the Copa Zito, named after him.
He has three daughters and a son José Ely, who is also engaged these days when Santos FC.
Title
- FIFA World Cup: 1958, 1962
- World Cup: 1962, 1963
- Copa Libertadores: 1962, 1963
- Taça Brasil: 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965
- Torneio Rio - São Paulo: 1959, 1963, 1964, 1966
- State Championship of São Paulo: (9x) 1955, 1956, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1967