Mário Zagallo

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This name uses Portuguese naming customs. The first or maternal family name is Lobo and the second or paternal family name is Zagallo.

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Mário Zagallo
File:Mário Zagallo 1974.jpg
Zagallo in 1974
Personal information
Full name Mário Jorge Lobo Zagallo
Date of birth (1931-08-09)9 August 1931
Place of birth Atalaia, Alagoas, Brazil
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Place of death Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Position(s) Inside forward, left winger
Youth career
1948–1949 America
1950–1951 Flamengo
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1951–1958 Flamengo 217 (30)
1958–1965 Botafogo 115 (46)
Total 332 (76)
International career
1958–1964 Brazil 33 (5)
Managerial career
1966–1970 Botafogo
1967–1968 Brazil
1970–1974 Brazil
1971–1972 Fluminense
1972–1974 Flamengo
1975 Botafogo
1976–1978 Kuwait
1978 Botafogo
1979 Al-Nassr
1980–1981 Vasco da Gama
1981–1984 Saudi Arabia
1984–1985 Flamengo
1986–1987 Botafogo
1988–1989 Bangu
1989–1990 United Arab Emirates
1990–1991 Vasco da Gama
1991–1994 Brazil (coordinator)
1994–1998 Brazil
1999 Portuguesa
2000–2001 Flamengo
2002 Brazil (caretaker)
2003–2006 Brazil (coordinator)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Mário Jorge Lobo Zagallo (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈmaɾju zaˈɡalu]; 9 August 1931 – 5 January 2024) was a Brazilian professional football player, coordinator and manager, who played as a forward.

Zagallo holds the record for World Cup titles in general with four titles in total. He also holds the record for World Cup finals with six participations. He was the first person to win the FIFA World Cup as both a manager and as a player, winning the competition in 1958 and 1962 as a player, in 1970 as manager.[1], and in 1994 as assistant manager. Zagallo also coached Brazil in 1974 (finishing fourth) and in 1998 (finishing as runners-up) and was a technical assistant in 2006. He is the first of three men, along with Germany's Franz Beckenbauer and France's Didier Deschamps to have won the World Cup as a player and as a manager and the only one that has done it more than twice.

In 1992, Zagallo received the FIFA Order of Merit, the highest honour awarded by FIFA, for his contributions to football.[2] He was named the 9th Greatest Manager of All Time by World Soccer Magazine in 2013.[3][4] On 5 January 2024, Zagallo died at the age of 92.[5] He was the last surviving Brazilian player who participated in the 1958 World Cup final.

Early life

Zagallo was born in Atalaia on 9 August 1931. As a young man, he worked as a soldier, working at the Maracanã Stadium when Uruguay defeated Brazil in the 1950 World Cup final.[6]

Playing career

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Zagallo during his playing career

Zagallo started his football career with América in 1948, and he later played for Flamengo and Botafogo.[7]

He won the World Cup as a player with Brazil in 1958 and 1962.[7] At the time of the 1958 tournament, Zagallo was a Flamengo player, but by the 1962 event, he was with Botafogo.[8]

He won a total of 33 caps for Brazil between 1958 and 1964.[9]

Style of play

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Zagallo with Pelé in 1970

Zagallo was a diminutive left winger with a small physique, who was known for his technical skills and his high defensive work-rate, as well as his ability to make attacking runs from deeper areas of the pitch. He was also capable of playing as a forward, either as a main striker, or as an inside forward.[10][11]

Managerial career

Zagallo started his managerial career at Botafogo, the club he had finished his career with, managing them alongside the Brazil national team. Zagallo won the World Cup as a manager in 1970, and as assistant coach in 1994, both with Brazil. He was the first person to win the World Cup both as a player and as a manager.[12] Winning the World Cup in 1970 at the age of 38, he is also the second youngest coach to win a World Cup, after Alberto Suppici, who won aged 31 with Uruguay in 1930.

Zagallo's Brazil team in 1970 played a 4–2–3–1 formation. The team prepared for nearly three months for the tournament, acclimatising to the heat and altitude of the Mexican summer. Zagallo said that the team won most of their games in the second half, where they scored 12 of their 19 goals as opponents tired.[13]

At the 1974 FIFA World Cup in West Germany, Zagallo was disadvantaged by the international retirement of Pelé four years earlier, as well as injuries to Tostão and Carlos Alberto Torres, meaning that only two starting players from the 1970 final were in the squad. Additionally, the team had a lack of competitive practice due to the shelving of the Copa América between 1967 and 1975. In response to Brazil being eliminated by overly physical European sides in 1954 and 1966, Zagallo chose to play in an equally aggressive way. Brazil narrowly made it through the first group stage by one goal in goal difference over Scotland, and missed out on the final after a 2–0 loss to the Netherlands, in which Luís Pereira was sent off for a foul on Johan Neeskens. Poland then defeated Brazil in the third-place playoff.[14]

In 1989, Zagallo was hired by the United Arab Emirates for their qualification campaign for the 1990 FIFA World Cup. He led the amateurs to an unexpected first qualification to the tournament, but left for Vasco da Gama days before the World Cup began and was replaced by Carlos Alberto Parreira.[15]

In November 2002, Zagallo came out of retirement to coach Brazil again, following Luiz Felipe Scolari's exit after winning that year's World Cup.[16] On 20 November, in his only game, the team won 3–2 in a friendly away to South Korea.[17]

Personal life

Zagallo married Alcina de Castro on 13 January 1955 at the Church of Capuchins in Rio de Janeiro. They remained together until de Castro's death on 5 November 2012.[18] Mário and Alcina had four children.[19] He was a practicing Catholic.[20][21][22]

Zagallo's surname was spelled Zagalo for most of his career, including by himself, until he told a reporter in the 1990s that his surname on his birth certificate was Zagallo. He was also the only Brazilian World Cup-winning forward to be known by his surname.[23]

In July 2022, Zagallo was admitted to hospital with a respiratory infection.[24] In August 2023, he was hospitalized for 22 days due to a urinary infection.[25] Following a brief hospitalization in Rio de Janeiro, he died on 5 January 2024 due to multiple organ failure, aged 92.[5]

Nicknames

Zagallo was nicknamed The Professor by his players throughout his coaching career, due to his tactical awareness and commanding presence on the bench. He was also nicknamed Velho Lobo ("Old Wolf") due to his surname "Lobo", which means "wolf".[11]

Managerial statistics

As of match played 13 November 2022
Managerial record by team and tenure
Team Nat From To Record
G W D L Win %
Botafogo Brazil 16 August 1966 18 July 1970 238 85 64 89 35.71
Brazil (caretaker) Brazil 19 September 1967 19 September 1967 1 1 0 0 100.000
Brazil Brazil 22 March 1970 6 July 1974 62 42 16 4 67.74
Fluminense Brazil 5 September 1971 17 March 1972 54 28 16 10 51.85
Flamengo Brazil 24 June 1972 13 November 1974 176 88 39 49 50.00
Botafogo Brazil 1975 December 1975 21 16 3 2 76.19
Kuwait Kuwait 5 February 1976 23 March 1978 31 18 7 6 58.06
Botafogo Brazil 14 September 1978 31 December 1978 29 15 9 5 51.72
Al-Hilal Saudi Arabia 5 January 1979 26 December 1979 18 12 3 3 66.67
Vasco da Gama Brazil 4 October 1980 28 May 1981 50 26 14 10 52.00
Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia 23 February 1981 31 March 1984 37 16 9 12 43.24
Flamengo Brazil 18 December 1984 31 August 1985 56 28 17 11 50.00
Botafogo Brazil 29 December 1986 27 November 1987 87 27 35 25 31.03
Bangu Brazil 3 November 1988 27 June 1989 67 17 30 20 25.37
United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates 2 September 1989 12 June 1990 24 4 13 7 16.67
Vasco da Gama Brazil 2 October 1990 16 May 1991 46 8 29 9 17.39
Brazil Brazil 13 December 1994 12 July 1998 74 55 13 6 74.32
Associação Portuguesa Brazil 18 July 1999 13 October 2000 102 39 27 36 38.24
Flamengo Brazil 3 March 2001 31 December 2001 65 32 11 22 49.23
Brazil (caretaker) Brazil 20 November 2002 20 November 2002 1 1 0 0 100.000
Total 1,239 558 355 326 45.04

Honours

Zagallo in 2008

Player

Flamengo

Botafogo

Brazil

Individual

Manager

Botafogo

Fluminense

Flamengo

Al-Hilal

Brazil

Kuwait

Coordinator

Brazil

Individual

See also

References

  • Roberto Assaf, Clóvis Martins. Campeonato carioca: 96 anos de história, 1902–1997. Irradiação Cultural (1997).
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