Coutinho (footballer, born 1943)
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Full name | Antônio Wilson Vieira Honório | ||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 11 June 1943 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 11 March 2019 | (aged 75)||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Santos, São Paulo, Brazil | ||||||||||||||||
Position(s) |
Striker | ||||||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
XV de Piracicaba | |||||||||||||||||
1957–1958 | Santos | ||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
1958–1968 | Santos | 457 | (368) | ||||||||||||||
1968 | Vitória | ? | (1) | ||||||||||||||
1969 | Portuguesa | ? | (1) | ||||||||||||||
1970 |
Santos | ? | (1) | ||||||||||||||
1971 |
Atlas | ||||||||||||||||
1971–1972 | Bangu | ? | (3) | ||||||||||||||
1973 | Saad | ? | (1) | ||||||||||||||
International career | |||||||||||||||||
1960–1965 | Brazil | 15 | (6) | ||||||||||||||
Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
1981 |
Santos | ||||||||||||||||
1985 | Valeriodoce | ||||||||||||||||
1987 | Comercial-SP | ||||||||||||||||
1987 | Aquidauana | ||||||||||||||||
1988 | Santo André | ||||||||||||||||
1992 | Valeriodoce | ||||||||||||||||
1992 | São Caetano | ||||||||||||||||
1993 | Bonsucesso | ||||||||||||||||
1995 |
Santos | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Antônio Wilson Vieira Honório (11 June 1943 – 11 March 2019), nicknamed Coutinho, was a Brazilian coach and
Early years
Born in
Club career
Coutinho debuted on Santos' professional team on May 17, 1958, still at the age of 14, in a match in Goiânia, against Sírio Libanês Futebol Clube. Coincidentally, the score was the same as the debut of his legendary partner Pelé, which had happened almost two years before: a 7–1 victory for Santos. And, like Pelé, Coutinho also scored one of Peixe's goals in his first match for the club's adult squad.
In a game at the Olympic Stadium, journalists and people at the stadium reported seeing one of the most beautiful goals in the history of football. Pelé received the ball in the midfield on his head and quickly passed it to Coutinho, who also with his head, gave it back to Pelé. And after a few more head-only passes the attacking players approached the opponent's box, without the ball touching the pitch. In the final moment, with only the goalkeeper in front of him, Coutinho could have finished the amazing combination himself with a goal, but he saw Lima coming from behind and adjusted to pass, once again with his head, and allowed Lima to score. This goal left the opponents Grêmio fans standing up, applauding a majestic goal combination between two maestros of the ball.
Coutinho, in addition to resembling Pelé with his style of playing, also had physical characteristics similar to Pele. Therefore, a legend arose that the player started to wear a white ribbon on one of the arms, to help distinguish them. Regarding this urban legend, Coutinho said this: "For a short while, when I made a beautiful move, they said it was Pelé, when I missed a pass or a shot, it was Coutinho". In 2007, in an interview on the TV show "Juca Entrevista" (ESPN), with the journalist Juca Kfouri, he revealed why he used the prop: "I had a small wrist injury and started wearing a band for a while of adhesive tape. But as soon as the pains ended, I took it off."
From 1958 to 1970, he wore the shirt of Santos, winning 19 titles and scoring 368 goals in 457 matches. In this period, he won alongside Santos FC five Taça Brasil and seven Campeonato Paulista titles, two Copa Libertadores, and two Intercontinental Cups.
Coutinho has been named the greatest Santos' player after Pelé, with whom he formed an effective attacking duo with 1461 goals scored (370 by Coutinho).[5][6] Coutinho also holds a mark of respect against one of Santos' main rivals, Corinthians. In 12 years of classics he played, he never lost a game. In the year that the taboo was broken, in 1968, Coutinho no longer worked for Santos.
After his tenure at Santos, he also played for
International career
Coutinho made his first match for the Brazil national team in Uruguay, against the home team. He was 16 years old and was the starter in that match valid for the Atlantic Cup.
At the international level, Coutinho earned 15 caps and scored 6 goals with the Brazil national football team between 1960 and 1965. He was meant to be a starter in the 1962 FIFA World Cup squad, but he was sidelined by injury just before the tournament and did not appear, even though he remained in the squad. Brazil went on to win the title.[1]
In his book, Coutinho, o Gênio da Área, Carlos Fernando Schinner states that João Saldanha tried to convince Coutinho to return to Brazil national football team few months prior to the 1970 FIFA World Cup in order to replace Tostão who was Brazil's main centre-forward at that time and had suffered a major injury putting in doubt his participation on that World Cup. Coutinho, who at that time was semi-retired and overweight, refused the invitation.[4]
Death
Coutinho died on 11 March 2019 in
Career Statistics
Club | Season | Campeonato Paulista | Torneio Rio – São Paulo
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Campeonato Brasileiro Série A | International Competitions | Total | |||||||
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Copa Libertadores | Intercontinental Cup | ||||||||||||
Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Santos FC | 1959 | 27 | 28 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 40 | 38 | ||||
1960 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 1 | - | - | 20 | 11 | |||||
1961 | 23 | 20 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 39 | 35 | |||||
1962 | 21 | 32 | - | - | 5 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 34 | 47 | |
1963 | 16 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 32 | 23 | |
1964 | 13 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 23 | |||
1965 | 16 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 24 | 19 | |||
1966 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 9 | |||||
1967 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||||||
1968 | - | - | 0 | 0 | - | - | |||||||
Total | 138 | 136 | 45 | 33 | 26 | 23 | 13 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 227 | 205 |
Honours
Club
- Santos FC
- Taça Brasil: 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965[6]
- Copa Libertadores: 1962, 1963[6]
- Intercontinental Cup: 1962, 1963[2]
- Campeonato Paulista: 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1967[6]
- Torneio Rio–São Paulo: 1959, 1963, 1964, 1966[2]
- Torneio de Paris: 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
- FIFA World Cup: 1962[1][2]
- Taça do Atlântico: 1960
- Copa Roca[n1 1]: 1963
- Copa Bernardo O'Higgins[n1 1]: 1961
- Taça Oswaldo Cruz[n1 1]: 1961, 1962
Individual
- Copa Libertadores Top Scorer: 1962[2]
- 1961 Taça Oswaldo Cruz[n1 1] (3 goals)
- 1961 Torneio Rio–São Paulo Top Scorer (9 goals)
- 1962 Campeonato Brasileiro Top Scorer (7 goals)
- 1964 Torneio Rio–São Paulo Top Scorer (11 goals)
- Notes
References
- ^ a b c d e "Morre Coutinho, ex-atacante de Santos e seleção brasileira". UOL (in Portuguese). Retrieved 12 March 2019.
- ^ ESPN Brasil. 11 March 2019. Retrieved 12 March 2019.
- ^ "O eterno menino da Vila : Em 1963, Coutinho calou o Boca em Buenos Aires; hoje Kaio Jorge tenta fazer o mesmo".
- ^ a b Doro, Bruno; De Almeida, Napoleão. "Simplesmente Coutinho". UOL (in Portuguese). Retrieved 12 March 2019.
- ^ Source: "Gazeta Esportiva . Net - Ídolos" (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 18 August 2007.
- ^ a b c d e "Ídolo do Santos e campeão do mundo em 1962, Coutinho morre aos 75 anos". Globo.com (in Portuguese). Retrieved 12 March 2019.
- ^ "Coutinho, ídolo santista e campeão Mundial de 62, morre aos 75 anos" (in Brazilian Portuguese). Lance!. 11 March 2019. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
- ^ "Brazil World Cup winner Coutinho dies, age 75". ESPN.com. 12 March 2019.
External links
- Coutinho at Sambafoot (archived)