Moacir Barbosa
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Full name | Moacir Barbosa do Nascimento | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 27 March 1921 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth |
Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 7 April 2000 | (aged 79)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Praia Grande, Brazil | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1940–1941 | ADCI-SP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1942–1944 | Ypiranga-SP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1945–1955 | Vasco da Gama | 532 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1956 | → Bonsucesso (loan) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1957 | Santa Cruz | 34 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1958–1960 | Vasco da Gama | 151 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1962 | Campo Grande | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
International career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1945–1959 | Brazil | 20 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Moacir Barbosa do Nascimento (27 March 1921 – 7 April 2000) was a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a
Club career
Success with Vasco da Gama
At club level, Barbosa had his greatest successes with
International career
1949 Copa América
With the
The 1950 Maracanazo match and its aftermath
In the
Barbosa was blamed for the defeat, for which he suffered for the rest of his life as the match became part of Brazilian folklore. In 2000, shortly before his death, he said in an interview: "The maximum punishment in Brazil is 30 years' imprisonment, but I have been paying, for something I am not even responsible for, by now, for 50 years."[2] In 1993, the president of the Brazilian Football Confederation, Ricardo Teixeira, did not allow him to be commentator during the broadcast of one of Brazil's international matches.[3]
In 1963, Barbosa was presented with the old square wooden goalposts from the Maracanã as a present, which he took home and burned.[4]
On 7 April 2000, he died of a heart attack at the age of 79.[5]
In popular culture
Barbosa plays a large role in
A Brazilian short film named Barbosa, premiered in 1988, in which a 49-year-old man (played by Antônio Fagundes) travels back in time trying to prevent Ghiggia's goal.[6]
Honours
Official
Vasco da Gama
- Campeonato Sul-Americano de Campeões: 1948
- Torneio Rio-São Paulo: 1958
- Campeonato Carioca: 1945, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1958
- Torneio Octogonal Rivadavia Correa Meyer: 1953
Brazil
- Copa América: 1949
- FIFA World Cup runner-up: 1950
Individual
- IFFHS Brazilian Keeper of the 20th Century: (3rd place)[7]
- IFFHS South American Keeper of the 20th Century: (11th place)[8]
Unofficial
- Copa Roca(unoff.)¹: 1945
- Copa Rio Branco(unoff.)²: 1947, 1950
¹) irregular friendly tournament between Brazil and Argentina
²) irregular friendly tournament between Brazil and Uruguay
Club
- Torneio Quadrangular do Rio (inoff.)¹: 1953
- Torneio Internacional de Santiago de Chile (inoff.)²: 1953
¹) with CR Vasco da Gama,
²) with CR Vasco da Gama,
References
- ^ "Brazil - Moacir Barbosa Nascimento - Profile with news, career statistics and history". Retrieved 3 August 2011.
- ^ Top 10 World Cup Goalkeeping Blunders
- ^ Maracanã, the largest stadium of the world – Sambafoot.com
- ^ "Unforgiven". Soccer Tactics (via Google Knol). 21 November 2008. Archived from the original on 13 February 2010. Retrieved 16 September 2010.
- ^ Bellos, Alex (13 April 2000). "Moacir Barbosa". The Guardian. London.
- ^ Casa do Cinema de Porto Alegre - Barbosa
- ^ IFFHS' Century Elections
- ^ IFFHS' Century Elections
External links
- El Mundo (Spain) – Obituary
- Casa do Cinema de Porto Alegre – Barbosa the film
Books
- Darwin Pastorin, L'ultima parata di Moacyr Barbosa (The Last Save of Moacyr Barbosa) Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 2005 (Published in Italy) [1]
- Alex Bellos, Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life, Bloomsbury, 2002 [2]