Mário Zagallo

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.

Mário Zagallo
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
Date of death 5 January 2024(2024-01-05) (aged 92)
Place of death Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Height 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
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-Hilal
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)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing  Brazil (as player)
FIFA World Cup
Winner1958 Sweden
Winner1962 Chile
South American Championship
Runner-up1959 Argentina
Representing  Brazil (as coordinator)
FIFA World Cup
Winner1994 USA


Representing  Brazil (as manager)
FIFA World Cup
Winner1970 Mexico
Runner-up1998 France
Copa América
Winner1997 Bolivia
Runner-up1995 Uruguay
FIFA Confederations Cup
Winner1997 Saudi Arabia
CONCACAF Gold Cup
Runner-up1996 USA
1998 USA
Olympic Games
1996 AtlantaTeam
Representing  Kuwait (as manager)
AFC Asian Cup
Runner-up1976 Iran
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

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 and in 1970 as manager. In addition, he won the 1994 FIFA World Cup 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 was the first of three men, along with Germany's Franz Beckenbauer (who coincidentially died two days after Zagallo did) and France's Didier Deschamps to have won the World Cup as a player and as a manager, and the only one who had done each more than once.

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

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