Zagallo
The first to win the World Cup as player and manager, and the only one to do each multiple times.
Mário Jorge Lobo Zagallo (9 August 1931 – 5 January 2024) was a Brazilian professional football player, coordinator and manager, who played as a forward. He holds the record for FIFA World Cup titles with four in total, and for World Cup finals with five participations. He was the first person to win the World Cup as both a player and a manager, winning in 1958 and 1962 as a player, in 1970 as manager, and in 1994 as assistant manager.
Quick Facts
- Full name
- Mário Jorge Lobo Zagallo
- Birthplace
- Atalaia, Alagoas, Brazil
- Born
- 9 August 1931
- Died
- 5 January 2024
- Place of death
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Height
- 1.67 m / 5 ft 6 in
- Position
- Inside forward, left winger
- Total caps
- 214
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Background
Zagallo was born in Atalaia, Alagoas, of Lebanese descent, and moved to Rio de Janeiro at eight months old. He served in the Brazilian Army and was deployed at Maracanã during the 1950 World Cup decisive match. He started his career at América's youth sector, joined Flamengo in 1950, and helped the club win three consecutive Campeonato Carioca titles between 1953 and 1955. In 1958 he moved to Botafogo, winning two Torneio Rio–São Paulo and two Campeonato Carioca titles, retiring in 1965.
He earned 33 caps for Brazil from 1958 to 1964, scoring five goals, and played in the 1958 and 1962 World Cup victories. As a manager, he led Brazil to the 1970 World Cup title, coached them in 1974 (fourth) and 1998 (runners-up), and was technical assistant in 2006. He also coached Botafogo, the United Arab Emirates to their first World Cup qualification in 1990, and other clubs. He received the FIFA Order of Merit in 1992 and was named the ninth greatest manager of all time by World Soccer Magazine in 2013.
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