Martim Francisco

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For the Brazilian politician who played a leading role in the declaration of Brazil's independence, see Martim Francisco Ribeiro de Andrada.
Martim Francisco
Martim Francisco as of 1954
Personal information
Full name Martim Francisco Ribeiro de Andrada
Date of birth (1928-02-21)21 February 1928
Place of birth Barbacena, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Date of death 22 June 1982(1982-06-22) (aged 54)
Place of death Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Youth career
Years Team
ca. – 1941–?
Olympic Barbacena
(MG)
also Juventus (Barbacena, MG)
Managerial career
1951 Villa Nova
1952 Siderúrgica
1953–1954 Atlético Mineiro
1954–1956
America
1956–1957
Vasco da Gama
1958
Internacional
1958–1960 Athletic Bilbao
1961
Vasco da Gama
1961–1962 Corinthians
1962 Comercial-SP
1963 Villa Nova
1963 Cruzeiro
1964 Atlético Mineiro
1965 Bangu
1964–1965 Elche
1965 Real Betis
1966–1967
Deportivo Logroñés
1967 Bangu
1967 → Houston Stars (loan)
1968 Valeriodoce
1969 América Mineiro
1970 Rodoviária
1971–1972 Villa Nova
1973 CRB
1973 Vasco da Gama de Passos
1976 Goiânia
1976–1977 Villa Nova-MG
1977 Guarani de Divinópolis
1979–1980 Gama
1981 Tiradentes-DF

Martim Francisco Ribeiro de Andrada (21 February 1928

Bangu AC
he won the State Champions' Cup of 1967.

Martim Francisco, scion of a distinguished Brazilian family – his ancestors include

José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva, considered the "Patriarch of Brazilian Independence", and many other lustrous personalities – studied psychology and law.[1] An accident prevented him from playing football beyond the youth level and he never acquired a formal coaching diploma. In 1954 it was reported that he had 650 books about football, of which he considered El preparador técnico from Spain and Tácticas y técnicas from Argentina as the most important ones. In his opinion, the WM of Herbert Chapman and the third defender of Izidor Kürschner
were the basis of all tactics. He considered from early on the intermingling of club officials with the work of the coach as a major problem. His bynames included primeiro lorde dos gramados brasileiros ("First Lord of the Brazilian fields"), professor and cientista do futebol ("Scientist of Football"). He died aged 54 from alcohol related illness.

Career

Early years: from Minas Gerais via Rio de Janeiro to Spain

At the age of thirteen Martim Francisco joined the local team

Olympic where he played as goalkeeper – with a brief interlude at EC Juventus – until an accident forced him to stop playing football. When the final course of his university studies took him to Rio de Janeiro, he had in 1948 the chance of getting a closer look at the coaching profession under the notable Uruguayan coach Ondino Viera, who then was in charge of Fluminense FC. On return to Minas Gerais he worked as assistant to Urbano Santos, who coached the state amateur selection. In 1950 he became director of the regional department (departemento do interior) of the state football association FMF
.

Martim Francisco commenced his club-coaching career 1951 at Villa Nova AC, the second oldest club of the south-east Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, based in Nova Lima, about 15 kilometres south-east of the state capital Belo Horizonte. The club had won in the 1930s four times the state championship and since then had turned into one of the lesser sides of the competition. Francisco replaced the then common WM-formation, introduced to Brazil in the late 1930s by the Hungarian Izidor Kürschner and developed further by Flávio Costa, with the 4–2–4-system, which means the tactical line-up of the team consisted of four defenders, two midfielders and four attackers. To provide more equilibrium in the natural flow of a match one of the attackers was ordered back to midfield when the team was defending and on defender moved forward when the team was in attack. This concept is widely regarded an invention of Martim Francisco - at least he is credited with being the first one to having deliberately deployed it - and was used by the Brazilian national side when it won the World Cups of 1958 and 1962, albeit in the latter tournament evolved largely to a 4–3–3.[2][3][4] Martim Francisco found the inspiration to the system by observing the final of the Copa Rio in July 1951 in the Maracanã Stadium, where SE Palmeiras of São Paulo overwhelmed Juventus FC of Turin in Italy. He thought, that Juventus might be able to reverse the flow of the match by pulling back one of their five attackers to midfield and a midfielder back to defence, transforming their 3–2–5 formation effectively to 4–2–4.

With this tactic he led Villa Nova, with some aid of Prão, a former player of the club who also held coaching responsibilities, to the

Benedito Custódio Ferreira "Escurinho"
, who later played for Fluminense and the national team.

Martim Francisco continued his career in 1952 with

EC Siderúrgica from Sabará
, also in the vicinity of the capital, state champions of 1937, which he took to the second place of the competition. In this year he also achieved a notable win with the state's youth team over the selection of Rio de Janeiro.

After this Martim Francisco coached the state's oldest and most successful club,

Botafogo FR in mid March 1954. At least between 1951 and 1953 he was also coach of the state selection of Minas Gerais, which competed in the Campeonato Brasileiro de Seleções Estaduais
, the championship of state teams.

His new club was

Real Madrid, and the Argentine Martín Alarcón
were amongst the best known players of America in these years.

At Vasco Martim Francisco followed Flávio Costa. Over the last years the team had been in decline after its golden era when it was known as Espresso da Vitória. With the glamorous defender

Francisco de Souza Ferreira "Gradim"
who brought new success to the club, winning both, the Rio-São Paulo and the state title.

During his time in Rio de Janeiro he also coached the selection of the Federal District, which the city of Rio then constituted. Rio was a finalist in the national championship in 1954 and 1956. Ahead of the 1957 South American Championship Martim Francisco was discussed as potential coach of the Brazilian national side, a job Osvaldo Brandão eventually would obtain with Vicente Feola as his assistant.[7]

1958 Martim Francisco started with SC Internacional in Porto Alegre, taking the club to the second place in the metropolitan championship, behind arch-rivals Grêmio FBPA.

Mid year Martim Francisco followed an offer to join Athletic Bilbao, the Spanish Champions of 1956. In the ensuing two seasons he led the team around star defender Jesús Garay to two third places in the league and into the semifinals of the Spanish Cup, the Copa del Rey of 1960, losing there after a 3–0 home win spectacularly in the second leg with 1-8 to Real Madrid. Around Christmas 1960 Bilbao – then in 7th place, the same rank it would finish under the new coach Juan Antonio Ipiña – let him go. The team's performances were also marred by injury problems in that period.

Return to Brazil and again to Spain: 1961 - 1967

Already in the first days of February he signed again with

Eli do Amparo, a star-player of the Expresso da Vitória era, succeeded him, but was replaced by September with the more experienced Paulo Amaral
. Vasco would not win another title before 1966, when it won the Rio-São Paulo. The next state title even had to wait until 1970.

São Paulo side

Comercial FC of Ribeirão Preto
which by the end of the year would finish 9th out of the 16 sides taking part in the São Paulo Championship.

In 1963 he returned to Villa Nova AC, but during the course of the State Championship of Minas Gerais he switched to the top club

Cruzeiro EC of Belo Horizonte around the star-player Tostão. Dirceu Lopes would debut in his time with the club, which went on to finish the season third under coach Leonízio Fantoni "Niginho"
, who previously led the club to a title hat-trick between 1959 and 1961. In the beginning of 1964 he coached once more Atlético Mineiro in several friendly matches.

Early July 1964, on matchday two of the Rio Championship, Martim Francisco replaced

Bangu AC, a club of the west of the metropolis, then well in ascendancy. He stayed only for 18 matches. Under his replacements Moacir Bueno, who only filled in for one match, and Plácido Monsores the club finished second, equal on points with Fluminense FC
and lost the match for the title 0–1. Bangu would remain amongst the top two for three more years, even winning the title in 1966, the second one after 1933 and last one in its history, becoming the last of the smaller clubs to win it.

Martim Francisco followed an offer of Spanish first division club

Deportivo Logroñés
for six matches. After he quit there without much ado he was barred by the Spanish association for breach of contract from further work in the country.

1967 forward: Bangu and a last title with Gama of Brasília

On 12 February 1967 Martim Francisco was back in Rio, once more with Bangu, taking the club through the Brazilian championship, then taking place as

Torneio dos Campeões, a cup for the state champions of 1966 of Rio, São Paulo and Minas Gerais, in which Bangu won 1–0 in the Mineirão Stadium of Belo Horizonte. This was Bangu's last title of note and a reflection of strength of the side in that era. Bangu disappointed in the national championship – won by the top team of the era, SE Palmeiras
– finishing only 9th, albeit being best side from Rio in the competition.

In May and June 1967 Bangu participated as

Wolverhampton Wanderers, which traded as Chicago Mustangs and Los Angeles Wolves
. The Houston Stars drew by far the biggest crowds, but finished only fourth in the Western division consisting of six sides.

Back in Rio, by early August, only a few matches into the series for the Taça Guanabara, Martim Francisco was replaced at the helm of Bangu with the Uruguayan star coach Ondino Viera, under whom Francisco made his first insights into coaching at Fluminense almost 20 years earlier.

The following years saw a decline in the career of Martim Francisco. He coached lesser teams in the Minas Gerais Championship like

América FC
of Belo Horizonte, with the latter finishing third.

Life style issues came to the fore, and after some months in danger of death due to a severe cirrhosis he returned to Villa Nova in 1971, leading them to the first championship of the Brazilian second division, then trading as Campeonato Nacional da Primeira Divisão, which then operated without ascension or relegation. Symptoms of Martim Francisco's physical and mental decay resurfaced. Once he began to miss training sessions and even matches, the club acted and dismissed him in May 1972.

In the ensuing period he lived in the care and in the house of his aunt Dina in the Rua Timbira, near the centre of Belo Horizonte. Generous support was given by Villa Nova's president Fernando Marques Ribeiro and some fans.

Edu, Zico's brother, then playing for America FC of Rio, collected money to be passed on to Martim Francisco by Oto Glória.[13][14]

Martim Francisco returned to coaching in June 1973 when he was hired by CR Brasil of Maceió in the north-eastern Brazilian state of Alagoas, with which he won one of the early rounds of the State Championship there undefeated. After a night out drinking with the president of their rivals AS São Domingos he signed up with them, for which by July both, he and the CSA president, got terminated, and the CRB president resigned in the context. However, fans of the club were vociferous in support of the retention of Martim Francisco.[15] CRB went on to win the title, using five coaches in that year. Interviews with Martim Francisco in that era became highly erratic.[16] Later on that year he was for a while on the bench of the Minas Gerais hinterland team Vasco da Gama de Passos.[17]

After this episode, jobs were difficult to come by for Martim Francisco. In March 1974 a sports column of a Rio de Janeiro newspaper even included a note, with his telephone number that he would be available again "with new ideas".[18] In April 1975 he accepted an offer to train the youth teams of America in Rio.[19]

By the end of April 1976 he finally got an offer to take on

Goiânia EC early into the second stage of the state championship of Goiás. A fortnight later, after two matches, a 4–0 at home and a 3–4 away, he was dismissed, officially because he could "acclimatise", unofficially because of uncommendable behaviour. Goiânia would finish the season second.[20]

Later in 1976 he once more coached Villa Nova, with which he won, with Arizona, goalkeeper of Villa Nova's 1951 title-winning side, as joint coach, in April 1977 the state cup, the

América FC in Belo Horizonte, before moving on to lowly Guarani of Divinópolis, 120 kilometres west of Belo Horizonte for a monthly salary of 5000 cruzeiros. His brief time there was cut short late July by more problems with cirrhosis.[21]

In 1979, he was appointed by

Brasília EC
- the first great success of the club. Gama finished in the latter part of the year 48th out of 94 clubs in the national championship, then named Copa Brasil. Before the start of the national championship 1980, which started in February, he was sacked by the club. During his time with Gama he also served as coach of the youth and adult selections of the Federal district.

In 1981 Martim Francesco was coach of

Taguatinga EC with 0–1 on 25 February 1981.[22]

Martim Francisco died on 22 June 1982 in Belo Horizonte. Only 30 people were present when he was laid to rest at the Cemitério do Bonfim in the capital of Minas Gerais. He was survived by a wife and three children, who had parted ways a long time ago.[23]

Career summary

Clubs

  • 1951:
    Villa Nova AC
    (Nova Lima, MG), State Championship of Minas Gerais 1951
  • ca. 1951-53: also State Selection of Minas Gerais
  • 1952:
    EC Siderúrgica
    (Sabará, MG), Runner-up State Championship of Minas Gerais 1952
  • 1953-1954:
    Atlético Mineiro
    (Belo Horizonte, MG), State Championship of Minas Gerais 1953
  • 1954-56:
    America FC (RJ)
    , Runner-up State Championship of Rio de Janeiro 1954, 1955
  • ca. 1954-56: also State Selection of the Federal District (then the city of Rio de Janeiro)
  • 1956-57: CR Vasco da Gama, State Championship of Rio de Janeiro 1956, Trofeo Teresa Herrera 1957, Tournoi de Paris 1957
  • 1958: SC Internacional (Porto Alegre, RS), Runner-up Championship of Porto Alegre 1958
  • 1958-60: Athletic Bilbao (Spain, / 74 league matches, ranks 3, 3, 7.)
  • 1961: CR Vasco da Gama
  • 1961-62:
    SC Corinthians Paulista
    (São Paulo, 36 matches)
  • 1962 Comercial FC (Ribeirão Preto, SP)
  • 1963:
    Villa Nova AC
    (Nova Lima, MG)
  • 1963:
    Cruzeiro EC
    (Belo Horizonte, MG)
  • 1964:
    Atlético Mineiro
    (Belo Horizonte, MG)
  • 1964:
    Bangu AC
    (RJ)
  • 1964-65: Elche CF (Spain, league rank 8)
  • 1965: Real Betis (Sevilla, Spain, 14 league matches)
  • 1966-67:
    Deportivo Logroñés
    (Spain, 2nd division / 6 matches)
  • 1967:
    Bangu AC
    (RJ), Copa dos Campeões Estaduais (State Champions' Cup),
  • 1968:
    Valeriodoce EC
    (Itabira, MG)
  • 1969:
    América FC
    (Belo Horizonte, MG)
  • 1970: AA Rodoviários do Amazonas (Manaus, AM)
  • 1971-72:
    Villa Nova AC
    (Nova Lima, MG), Championship of second national division 1971
  • 1973: CR Brasil (Macéio, AL)
  • 1973: Vasco da Gama de Passos (MG)
  • 1975:
    America FC
    (RJ), youth coach
  • 1976:
    Goiânia EC
    (GO)
  • 1976-77:
    Villa Nova AC
    (Nova Lima, MG)
  • 1977:
    Villa Nova AC
    (Nova Lima, MG)
  • 1977: Guarani EC (Divinópolis, MG)
  • 1979-80:
    SE Gama
    , Championship of the Federal District 1979
  • 1980: Selection of the Distrito Federal, Sub-20 Selection of the Distrito Federal
  • 1981: Grêmio Esportivo Tiradentes (DF)
Note
  • In some texts Martim Francisco is also listed as coach of
    Olympic Club Barbacena
    (MG). However, this engagement could neither be dated nor verified in any other way. It might have taken place ca. 1970.

Honours

Major invitational tournaments

Notes

  1. ^ The birthdate indicated is as per Leunam Leite, Sport Illustrado, 1954. BDFutbol names his birthdate as 22 February. Also 17 April 1928, Ouro Preto has been seen. Birthplace Barbacena seems likely, as the Andrada family and also Martim Francisco's first football club, Olympic, are based there.

References

  1. ^ José Hamílton Ribeiro: A leilão dos miseráveis, Realidade (magazine), Editora Abril, September 1973, p. 83, et al.
  2. ^ Various authors: Causa Mortis: Retranca, Placar, 7 September 1973, p. 16.
  3. Jonathan Wilson
    : Inverting the Pyramid, Orion Books, London, 2008. Chapter 7.
  4. ^ Miguel Lourenço Pereira: O 4-2-4, a inovação táctica mais brasileira, futebolmagazine, 2 July 2012.
  5. ^ 02 Amistosos e Torneios, Ficha do Jogo.
  6. ^ Quanto maior o beque mais eu batia, Placar, 8 January 1971 p. 19. In the article former player Almir Pernambuquinho is quoted as follows: "Martim Francisco was great. Management wanted to get rid of him and therefore invented a story that he would drink irresponsibly. If all our coaches would have been like him, Brazilian football would not know any competition it would be unbeatable. Martim had another quality: he never pandered to the games of the club management."
  7. ^ Candidata-se Martim Francisco: Quer Ser o Técnico da Seleção Nacional, Diário da Noite, Rio de Janeiro, 19 February 1957, p. 10.
  8. ^ The newspaper that reported the salary on 25 July 1961, Diário de Notícias, Rio de Janeiro, cost 10 Cruzeiros.
  9. ^ Jogos de 1961, NetVasco (per 10 Feb. 2014).
  10. ^ Diário de Notícias, Rio de Janeiro, 27 July 1961, p. 7.
  11. ^ The highest ever defeat of Corinthians was a 0–8 against Palestra Itália, today's SE Palmeiras, on 5 November 1933.
  12. ^ INPS dificulta internamento de Martim Francisco, Jornal do Brasil, 4 October 1972, p. 26.
  13. ^ Diário de Notícias (RJ), 27 October 1972, p. 12.
  14. ^ Michel Laurence: O velho garoto Edu, Placar, 12 October 1973, p. 16 f.
  15. ^ Diário de Notícias (RJ), 18 July 1973, p. 14.
  16. ^ Michel Laurence: O calvaleiro da triste figura, Placar, 21/09/1973, p. 17 ff.
  17. ^ As lágrimas de Martim, Jornal do Brasil, 7 September 1973, p. 33.
  18. ^ Nonnato Masson: Campo Neutro, Jornal do Brasil, 22 March 1974, p. 23.
  19. ^ Jogadores do America recebem atrasados e treinam com empenho, Jornal do Brasil, 11 April 1975, p. 27.
  20. ^ Jornal do Brasil: "Martim fica só 15 dias no Goiânia", 13 May 1976, p. 30.
  21. ^ Sergio A. Carvalho: Martim é um fardo para Divinópolis, Placar, 26 August 1977, p. 64. (note: this copy of Placar cost 12 cruzeiros)
  22. ^ José Ricardo Almeida: Martim Francisco, Almanaque do Futebol Brasiliense.
  23. ^ Placar, 2 July 1982.

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