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©(FILES) Brazilian football team caretaker coach Mario Zagallo (C) poses with his starting line-up 20 November 2002 ahead of a friendly match between Brazil and South Korea at Seoul World Cup stadium. Brazilian football legend and four-time world champion Mario Zagallo died January 5, 2024 at the age of 92, a statement on his official Instagram account said. (Photo by Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP)
Die Fußball-Legende ist tot.
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Brazilian football legend Mario Zagallo died on Friday at the age of 92. This was announced in a post on his Instagram account on Saturday.
Zagallo will forever be the first to win the World Cup as a player and later as a coach, establishing himself as one of the great figures in World Cup history.
Rio de Janeiro. Zagallo was a “devoted father, loving grandfather, caring father-in-law, loyal friend, successful professional and a great person,” said the family’s statement, which praised the ex-national player as a “great idol.”
Brazil’s football legend Mario Zagallo dies
An unparalleled career on and off the field
Zagallo, nicknamed “The Professor”, even played a key role in four of the five World Cup titles won by the Brazilian national team. As a player he won two trophies: in Sweden in 1958 and in Chile in 1962. On the bench, he led the Seleçao to the 1970 title in Mexico and was assistant coach to Carlos Alberto Parreira in the 1994 title win in the USA.
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In 1998 he was national coach again when Ronaldo’s Brazil lost 3-0 to captain Didier Deschamps’ France at the Stade de France. Only the legendary German Franz Beckenbauer (1974 as a player and 1990 as a coach) and Deschamps after Les Bleus won the title in Russia in 2018 could emulate him.
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Farewell to a football legend
Brazilian football is mourning “one of its greatest legends,” said association president Ednaldo Rodrigues, according to a statement from the CBF association. The CBF ordered seven days of mourning in Zagallo’s honor and a minute’s silence before the weekend’s games.
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From the humble Club America to the world stage
Mario Jorge Lobo Zagallo was born on August 9, 1931 in Maceió, in the northeast of the country, into a family with Lebanese and Italian roots. In 1948 he began his career at the modest Club America in Rio de Janeiro, then played eight seasons at Flamengo and seven at Botafogo before launching his successful coaching career.
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