Vavá
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Full name | Edvaldo Izídio Neto | |||||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 12 November 1934 | |||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Recife, Brazil | |||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 19 January 2002 | (aged 67)|||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | |||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Striker | |||||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||||||
1949–1950 | Sport Recife | |||||||||||||||||||
1951–1958 | Vasco da Gama | 456 | (191) | |||||||||||||||||
1958–1961 | Atlético Madrid | 71 | (31) | |||||||||||||||||
1961–1963 | Palmeiras | 142 | (71) | |||||||||||||||||
1964–1967 | América | |||||||||||||||||||
1967–1968 | Toros Neza | |||||||||||||||||||
1968 | San Diego Toros | 28 | (5) | |||||||||||||||||
1969 | Portuguesa | |||||||||||||||||||
Total | 697 | (298) | ||||||||||||||||||
International career | ||||||||||||||||||||
1955–1964 | Brazil | 20 | (15) | |||||||||||||||||
Managerial career | ||||||||||||||||||||
1971–1972 | Córdoba | |||||||||||||||||||
1974–1975 | Córdoba | |||||||||||||||||||
1977–1978 | Granada | |||||||||||||||||||
1984–1985 | Al Rayyan | |||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Edvaldo Izidio Neto (12 November 1934 – 19 January 2002), commonly known as Vavá, was a Brazilian professional footballer who is widely considered to be one of the greatest strikers of his generation. Nicknamed "Peito de Aço" (Steel Chest), he most notably played for Vasco da Gama, Atlético Madrid, Palmeiras and the Brazil national team.
International career
[edit]Vavá earned twenty caps with the Brazil national team between 1955 and 1964, scoring a total of fifteen goals. He was in the side that won both the 1958 and 1962 FIFA World Cups, in which he scored five and four goals, respectively. Furthermore, he was a joint-recipient of the 1962 World Cup Golden Boot as one of the tournament's top scorers. Vavá was also part of Brazil's squad for the 1952 Summer Olympics.[1]
Vavá scored in the World Cup finals of both 1958 (twice) and 1962 (once), thus becoming the first player to score in two finals. To this day, only five players have achieved this feat, the other four being Pelé, Paul Breitner, Zinedine Zidane, and Kylian Mbappé. He remained the only player to have scored in two consecutive World Cup final matches until Kylian Mbappé achieved the feat in the 2022 World Cup final, having also scored in the final in 2018.
Club statistics
[edit]Club performance | League | |||
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Season | Club | League | Apps | Goals |
Spain | League | |||
1958–59 | Atlético Madrid | La Liga | 27 | 16 |
1959–60 | 29 | 10 | ||
1960–61 | 15 | 5 | ||
Country | Spain | 71 | 31 | |
United States | League | |||
1968 | San Diego Toros | North American Soccer League | 28 | 5 |
Country | United States | 28 | 5 | |
Total | 99 | 36 |
Honours
[edit]Club
[edit]Sport Recife
- Campeonato Pernambucano: 1949
Vasco da Gama
- Campeonato Carioca: 1952, 1956, 1958
- Torneio Rivadavia Correa Meyer: 1953
- Tournoi de Paris: 1957
- Torneio Rio–São Paulo: 1958
Atlético de Madrid
Palmeiras
Club América
International
[edit]Brazil national football team
Individual
[edit]- FIFA World Cup Golden Shoe: 1962
- FIFA World Cup All-Star Team: 1962
- Brazilian Football Museum Hall of Fame
References
[edit]Sources
[edit]- VAVÁ Ex-atacante do Vasco, Palmeiras e Seleção by Gustavo Grohmann
- Vavá… o peito de aço
- Vava, Edvaldo Izidio Neto de son vrai nom
External links
[edit]- Legends of the Football World Cup
- NASL stats
- Vavá player profile at BDFutbol
- Vavá manager profile at BDFutbol
- Vavá at National-Football-Teams.com
- 1934 births
- 2002 deaths
- Footballers from Recife
- Brazilian men's footballers
- Atlético Madrid footballers
- Club América footballers
- CR Vasco da Gama players
- Footballers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Olympic footballers for Brazil
- 1958 FIFA World Cup players
- 1962 FIFA World Cup players
- FIFA World Cup–winning players
- La Liga players
- São Paulo state football team players
- SE Palmeiras players
- Brazil men's international footballers
- Brazilian expatriate men's footballers
- Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in the United States
- Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States
- Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Mexico
- Expatriate men's footballers in Mexico
- Al-Rayyan SC managers
- Expatriate men's footballers in Spain
- Liga MX players
- North American Soccer League (1968–1984) players
- San Diego Toros players
- Associação Portuguesa de Desportos players
- La Liga managers
- Granada CF managers
- Córdoba CF managers
- Men's association football forwards
- Brazilian football managers
- Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Qatar
- Qatar Stars League managers
- Expatriate football managers in Qatar
- Expatriate football managers in Spain
- Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Spain
- 20th-century Brazilian sportsmen