Pepe (footballer, born 1935)

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Pepe
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Pepe receiving an award from the Brazilian government in honor of the two world championships of 1958 and 1962.
Personal information
Full name José Macia
Date of birth (1935-02-25) February 25, 1935 (age 86)
Place of birth Santos, Brazil
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Left Winger / Striker, Second Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1954–1969 Santos 750 (405[1])
National team
1955–1965 Brazil 41 (22)
Teams managed
1975 Santos
1978 Paulista
1979–1980 Santos
1981 Atlético Mineiro
1981 São José
1982 Náutico
1983 Inter de Limeira
1983–1985 Al Sadd
1985 Fortaleza
1986 São Paulo
1986–1987 Inter de Limeira
1987–1989 Boavista
1989 Peru
1989 Inter de Limeira
1989–1990 Santos
1992 Verdy Kawasaki
1993 Portuguesa
1993 Guarani
1994–1995 Santos
1995 Atlético Paranaense
1996 Inter de Limeira
1996 Coritiba
1997 Criciúma
1998 Atlético Paranaense
2002–2003 Portuguesa Santista
2003 Guarani
2003 Portuguesa Santista
2004–2005 Al Ahli
2003 Ponte Preta
Honours
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

José Macia, better known as Pepe (born February 25, 1935) is a Brazilian former football player and manager. He is considered one of the greatest players in the history of Santos FC and one of the greatest left wingers of all time, being two-time World Champion in 1958 and 1962 and two-time World-Club Champion in 1962 and 1963 helping Santos FC defeat the iconic SL Benfica of Eusébio and the Milan of Cesare Maldini, Trapattoni, Rivera, Amarildo and Altafini in a best-of-three final.

Pepe spent his entire club playing career with Brazilian side Santos Futebol Clube (1954–1969), scoring 405 goals in 750 league appearances for the club[2] making him the second best top scorer in the history of Santos FC only behind Pelé, who scored 1,091 goals.

His nickname was "Canhão da Vila" (The Vila Cannon), because of his potent kick with his left leg and the fact that Santos plays in the Urbano Caldera Stadium, nicknamed Vila Belmiro. He claims to be "the greatest human striker in the history of Santos – because Pelé is from Saturn".

Early days[]

At the age of seven, in 1942, Pepe moved with his family to the neighboring city of São Vicente. With his brother, Mário, he started playing football with the teams in the neighborhood where he lived, Comercial FC and Mota Lima. And it was during this period that his left foot started to stand out.[3]

At the age of 16 Pepe was playing for São Vicente AC when Cobrinha, the team's goalkeeper, who also defended Santos' kids, invited him to perform a test at Alvinegro. On May 4, 1951 Pepe stepped on the lawn of Vila Belmiro for the first time, and was approved by coach Salu.

Between the years of 1952 and 1953 Pepe was already under the command of coach Lula, in the juveniles of Peixe. And in 1954, at the age of 19, he had his first chance on the main team. In the juvenile, he varied his position between the left midfielder and the left wing, but in the professional he decided for the left wing and took over the position for many years to the end of his career.

Club career[4][]

He debuted on May 23, in a match against Fluminense, in Pacaembu, for the Rio-São Paulo Tournament. The Santos team lost 2-1, and Pepe entered the second half in the place of Boca, who had already taken the place of Del Vecchio.

His first great moment as a professional athlete was in the 1955 Paulista Championship. In the last match of the event, Pepe scored the triumph goal against Taubaté, in Vila Belmiro, and with the victory Santos became Paulista Champion for the second time, exactly 20 years after the birth of his young left-winger. By that time, the power of his left leg was already known, which is why he earned the nickname Canhão da Vila. Goals from fouls and penalties became frequent. And on three occasions his left-hander also provided Olympic goals.

Among the outstanding matches in his career, Pepe likes to highlight the second of the 1963 Intercontinental World Cup, against Milan, at Maracanã. In the first game, in Milan, Santos lost 4 to 2. In the second, they lost 2 to 0 at the end of the first half and would lose the title that night if they didn't get the comeback. But Alvinegro returned determined in the second stage and turned to 4 to 2, returning the score of the first match. Canhão da Vila scored two goals, both from the left leg, taking a free kick. In the third and decisive match of the Worlds, again at Maracanã, Peixe won by 1 to 0, with a penalty goal by Dalmo. As Pelé was out of the game by injury, Pepe would be in charge of executing the collection, but seeing the confidence of Dalmo, who had asked to collect, Pepe did not think twice and gave the collection to the teammate.

A year earlier, in Lisbon, Santos had become world champion for the first time when striking Benfica, twice European champion. Pepe considers this match to be the best presentation in Santos history. Peixe won Eusébio's team 5-2, in the middle of Estádio da Luz. Pelé scored three times and Coutinho and Pepe scored one goal each.

As a Santos athlete, Pepe won 25 official titles, including 11 São Paulo Championships, six Brazilian Championships, two Copa Libertadores de América, two Interclub World Cups and four Rio-São Paulo Tournaments, becoming the player with more titles for a single club. Not to mention the countless tournaments won by the world. Biggest winner of São Paulo Championships, with 13 titles won (11 as Santos player, one as Santos coach and one as coach of Internacional de Limeira), Canhão da Vila is also the biggest winner of Brazilian Championships, with seven won titles - six as a Santos player and one as a São Paulo coach.

Disciplined to the extreme, and even sometimes hunted on the field by violent and malicious defenders, Pepe was never expelled from the field, and for this rare discipline he received the Belfort Duarte trophy.

Constantly, he was the absolute holder of the Santos left-wing until 1965, when he reached the age of 30. From that date, until 1969, the year in which he ended his career, he began to take over the title with the young Abel, hired from América from Rio de Janeiro, and, since 1966, with Edu, from the youth categories of Santos.

One of the rare examples of a player who spent his entire career in a single team, Pepe dedicated 15 years of his life to Santos' professional team, going so far as to refuse millionaire proposals from Europe just to remain in his heart club. If we add from his first year as a youth, until the last as a professional, it was 18 years as a Santos athlete.

International career[]

Pepe was supposed to be the starting player for the Brazilian team in the 1958 and 1962 campaigns, but twice suffered injuries on the eve of the World Cup and was replaced by Zagallo. The first time, he suffered a blow to the ankle in a friendly match in Italy. In the second, he had a knee sprain in a friendly game at the Morumbi stadium. Pepe received 41 caps with the Brazil national football team,[5] and won both the 1958 and 1962 World Cups. However, he did not appear in any matches in both tournaments.

Managerial career[]

Pepe has a long career as a coach that started in 1969 in the youth ranks of Santos, eventually taking over the main Santos FC team and managing several other Brazilian clubs, including São Paulo and Guarani[6] and the great Portuguese club Boavista.[7]

He coached Santos from 1972 to 1974, obtaining a Paulista State Championship title in 1973, then he went to Paulista FC, he returned to Santos between 1979-1980, then he went to San José and Náutico.

His coaching career brought him to Asia, where he coached in Japan and Qatar. He coached Al Sadd from 1983 till 1984, and succeeded in winning the Emir of Qatar Cup.[8]

In 1985 he directed the Esporte Clube Fortaleza. At the beginning of 1986 he directed the modest Inter de Limeira and surprisingly obtained the Paulista State Championship, as a result of that great campaign a great like Sao Paulo signed him in mid-1986 to 1987, taking the Brazilian Series A Championship, on February 25, 1987. Then he directed the Boavista de Portugal from 1987 to 1989.

In 1989 he was called to lead the Peruvian soccer team that was preparing for the Italy 1990 qualifying rounds where he played a more than discreet role. He returned to Santos at the end of 89 until mid-91. He was in Japan from 1991 to 1993, with Verdi Kawasaki today Tokyo Verdy, being league champion in 93. He managed Guarani FC at the end of 1993, then he returned to Santos in 94, then promoted in 1995 to Atlético Paranaense, being champion of the Brazilian Serie B.

He also coached Al Ahli from 2004 till 2005, where Spanish legend Pep Guardiola was under his supervision.[9]

The last club he led was Ponte Preta in 2006.

Honours[]

Player[]

Santos

Official Tournaments[]

Friendly Tournaments[]

  • : 1960, 1961
  • Taça das Américas: 1963
  • Torneio Pentagonal do México: 1959
  • Taça Tereza Herrera (Espanha): 1959
  • Torneio de Valência (Espanha): 1959
  • Torneio Dr. Mario Echandi (Costa Rica): 1959
  • Torneio Giallorosso (Itália): 1960
  • Quadrangular de Lima (Peru): 1960
  • Torneio Itália 1961 (Itália): 1961
  • Torneio Internacional da Costa Rica (Costa Rica): 1961
  • Pentagonal de Guadalajara (México): 1961
  • Torneio Internacional da Venezuela (Venezuela): 1965
  • Hexagonal do Chile (Chile): 1965
  • Torneio de Nova York (Estados Unidos): 1966

International[]

Brazil

Manager[]

Santos
  • 1973 Campeonato Paulista
Fortaleza E.C.
Inter de Limeira
São Paulo Futebol Clube
Tokio Verdy
Atlético Paranaense

Numbers and records[]

  • Biggest winner of the Paulista Championship with 13 titles won (11 as Santos player, 1 as Santos coach and 1 as Inter de Limeira coach.
  • Biggest winner of the Brazilian Championship with 7 titles won (6 as Santos player and 1 as São Paulo coach).
  • Second player who most played with the shirt of Santos with 750 games.
  • Santos' second highest scorer with 405 goals.
  • Fourth top scorer of Brazilian clubs behind Pelé with 1091, Roberto Dinamite with 620 and Zico with 500 goals.
  • Twenty-third top scorer in the Brazilian Football Team with 22 goals.
  • Fifteenth greatest scorer in the history of the Rio-São Paulo Tournament.
  • Player who won more titles with the shirt of Santos with 27 official titles, one more than Pelé.

References[]

  1. ^ [1] Archived September 11, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Verified.
  2. ^ https://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-soccer-worldcup-brazil-pepe/world-cup-still-bitter-sweet-for-brazils-double-winner-idUSKCN1J423N
  3. ^ https://www.santosfc.com.br/pepe-faz-85-anos/
  4. ^ https://www.santosfc.com.br/pepe-faz-85-anos/
  5. ^ Mamrud, Roberto. "Brazil – Record International Players". RSSSF. Archived from the original on September 11, 2012. Retrieved April 30, 2011.
  6. ^ "Futpedia: Pepe (Pepe)" (in Portuguese). Globo Esporte. Retrieved January 23, 2010.
  7. ^ "Época 1987/88: Primeira Divisão". July 15, 2007.
  8. ^ Placar Magazine (in Portuguese). Published 22 September 1986, p9.
  9. ^ "Ex-técnico de Guardiola, Pepe enaltece treinador do Barcelona" (in Portuguese). Placar. Retrieved August 17, 2012.
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