Vavá
 Vavá in 1962 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Edvaldo Izídio Neto | |||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 12 November 1934 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Recife, Brazil | |||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 19 January 2002 (aged 67) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | |||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Striker | |||||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||||||
| 1949–1950 | Sport Recife | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1951–1958 |
Vasco da Gama | 456 | (191) | |||||||||||||||||
| 1958–1961 | Atlético Madrid | 71 | (31) | |||||||||||||||||
| 1961–1963 |
Palmeiras | 142 | (71) | |||||||||||||||||
| 1964–1967 | América | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1967–1968 | Toros Neza | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1968 | San Diego Toros | 28 | (5) | |||||||||||||||||
| 1969 | Portuguesa | |||||||||||||||||||
| International career | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1955–1964 | Brazil | 20 | (15) | |||||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1971–1972 | Córdoba | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1974–1975 | Córdoba | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1977–1978 | Granada | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1984–1985 |
Al Rayyan | |||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||||||||
Edvaldo Izidio Neto (12 November 1934 – 19 January 2002), commonly known as Vavá, was a Brazilian professional
Palmeiras and the Brazil national team
.
International career
Vavá earned twenty caps with the
1962 World Cup Golden Boot as one of the tournament's top scorers. Vavá was also part of Brazil's squad for the 1952 Summer Olympics.[1]
Vavá scored in the World Cup finals of both 1958 (twice) and 1962 (once), thus becoming the first player to score in two finals. To this day, only five players have achieved this feat, the other four being Pelé, Paul Breitner, Zinedine Zidane, and Kylian Mbappé. He remained the only player to have scored in two consecutive World Cup final matches until Kylian Mbappé achieved the feat in the 2022 World Cup final, having also scored in the final in 2018.
Club statistics
| Club performance | League | |||
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| Season | Club | League | Apps | Goals |
| Spain | League | |||
| 1958–59 | Atlético Madrid |
La Liga | 27 | 16 |
| 1959–60 | 29 | 10 | ||
| 1960–61 | 15 | 5 | ||
| Country | Spain | 71 | 31 | |
| United States | League | |||
| 1968 | San Diego Toros | North American Soccer League | 28 | 5 |
| Country | United States | 28 | 5 | |
| Total | 99 | 36 | ||
Honours
Club
- Campeonato Pernambucano: 1949
C.R. Vasco da Gama
- Campeonato Carioca (Rio de Janeiro State championship): 1952, 1956, 1958
- Torneio Rio - São Paulo(Rio – São Paulo Tournament): 1958
Atlético de Madrid
- Copa del Rey: 1960, 1961
Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras
- Campeonato Paulista (São Paulo State championship): 1963
- 1966
International
Individual
- FIFA World Cup Golden Shoe: 1962
- FIFA World Cup All-Star Team: 1962
- Brazilian Football Museum Hall of Fame
References
Sources
- VAVÁ Ex-atacante do Vasco, Palmeiras e Seleção by Gustavo Grohmann
- Vavá… o peito de aço
- Vava, Edvaldo Izidio Neto de son vrai nom
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Vavá.
- Legends of the Football World Cup
- NASL stats
- Vavá player profile at BDFutbol
- Vavá manager profile at BDFutbol
- Vavá at National-Football-Teams.com
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