Wilson (footballer, born 1927)

Wilson
Personal information
Full name	Wilson Francisco Alves
Date of birth	21 December 1927
Place of birth	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Date of death	12 July 1998 (aged 70)
Place of death	São Paulo, Brazil
Position(s)	Defender
Senior career*
Years	Team
1943–1952	Vasco da Gama
1953–1954	Portuguesa
1955–1957	Santos
International career
1949	Brazil
Managerial career
1963–1966	São Bento
1966–1967	Portuguesa
1968	Guarani
1968–1969	América-SP
1970–1971	São Bento
1971	Paulista
1972	América-SP
1973	Noroeste
1975	Marília
1975	Comercial-MS
1976–1977	Noroeste
1977–1978	Grêmio Maringá
1978	Comercial-MS
1979	América-SP
1979–1980	Marília
1981	São Bento
1981	Taubaté
1982	Grêmio Maringá
1982	América-SP
1985	Volta Redonda
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Wilson Francisco Alves - also known as Wilson only - (21 December 1927 – 12 July 1998) was a Brazilian

Brazil national team he won a South American Championship. A highlight of his coaching years was the winning of a State Championship of Paraná

. He was a great Brazilian footballer.

Career

Born

Chico

.

Wilson was a core player of the

Brazilian team that won the South American Football Championship of 1949. Altogether he played five times for his country, all matches in the successful tournament. Wilson finished his career as player until 1957 with Portuguesa and Santos FC where he won twice the São Paulo State Championship

, generally known as Campeonato Paulista.

Wilson, frequently called Capão after Morro do Capão in Rio where he was born, then started a career as coach. In 1966 and 1967 he led Portuguesa through the matches of the Torneio Roberto Gomes Pedrosa, precursor to the national championship competition.

Between 1977 and 1982 he managed the campaigns of

América FC from São José do Rio Preto

(SP) in the national championships.

But on most occasions he coached small to midsize teams in small to midsize towns. in 1961 he took

Presidente Prudente

for the first time to the first division of the São Paulo state league. With Grêmio Maringá he won in 1977 the

EC São Bento from Sorocaba (SP) he won the championships of the interior of the years 1964 and 1965 and in 1981 he defeated the national team of Saudi Arabia 1-0.^[2] Beyond this he coached numerous other clubs of the interior. Football-magazine Placar

named him in 1975 in an article devoted to him the "best paid coach of the interior" and described him as rather focussing on friendship amongst the players, rather than "complicated tactics".

Wilson Francisco Alves, the Capão, died in

World Cup

in France.