.jpg) Evaristo in 1960 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Evaristo de Macedo Filho | ||
| Date of birth | (1933-06-22)22 June 1933 (age 92) | ||
| Place of birth | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | ||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[citation needed] | ||
| Position | Forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1950–1952 | Madureira | 35 | (18) |
| 1953–1957 | Flamengo[1] | 61 | (38) |
| 1957–1962 | Barcelona | 114 | (78) |
| 1962–1965 | Real Madrid | 17 | (4) |
| 1965–1966 | Flamengo | 7 | (0) |
| Total | 234 | (138) | |
| International career | |||
| 1955–1957 | Brazil | 14 | (8) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1967–1968 | America | ||
| 1968 | Fluminense | ||
| 1969 | Vasco da Gama | ||
| 1971 | Bahia | ||
| 1971 | Bangu | ||
| 1972 | Santa Cruz | ||
| 1973 | Bahia | ||
| 1977–1979 | Santa Cruz | ||
| 1980–1986 | Qatar | ||
| 1985 | America | ||
| 1985 | Brazil | ||
| 1986 | Iraq | ||
| 1988–1989 | Bahia | ||
| 1990 | Grêmio | ||
| 1991–1992 | Cruzeiro | ||
| 1992 | Qatar | ||
| 1993 | Santos | ||
| 1993–1995 | Flamengo | ||
| 1996 | Atlético Paranaense | ||
| 1997 | Grêmio | ||
| 1997 | Vitória | ||
| 1998 | Bahia | ||
| 1998 | Flamengo | ||
| 1999 | Corinthians | ||
| 2001 | Bahia | ||
| 2002 | Vasco da Gama | ||
| 2002–2003 | Flamengo | ||
| 2003 | Bahia | ||
| 2004 | Vitória | ||
| 2005 | Atlético Paranaense | ||
| 2007 | Santa Cruz | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Evaristo de Macedo Filho, (born 22 June 1933), known simply asEvaristo, is a Brazilian formerfootballer andcoach.
Raised in the north ofRio de Janeiro, Evaristo, like many children, played football simply for fun on the streets, and watchedFlamengo play on weekends with his uncle. In 1950, aged 17, Evaristo joined a friend who was attending a trial atMadureira and was asked to come back the following day. Signed as an amateur, he scored 18 goals in 35 games, including one againstFluminense at theMaracanã Stadium.[2]
Evaristo was called up to the Brazilian squad at the1952 Summer Olympics inHelsinki. After returning home following elimination to an experiencedGermany side, all of the Brazil players received new club offers. Turning down offers fromVasco da Gama and Fluminense, Evaristo joined Flamengo, and won three successive Rio State Championships with the club. He scored 103 goals in 191 games for Flamengo, including four during a 12–2 win overSão Cristóvão, the biggest win ever recorded at the Maracanã to date.[2]
Evaristo's five-goal display with Brazil in a 9–0 win overColombia at the1957 South American Championship brought him to the attention ofFC Barcelona technical secretaryJosep Samitier, who had flown to South America in search of a striker.[2] Samitier watched Evaristo playing for Brazil duringqualification for the1958 FIFA World Cup and, impressed, made Evaristo's father a proposal deemed "impossible to turn down", with a basic wage of 700,000 pesetas/£6,000 a year (about £140,000 in 2021).[2] The offer came additionally including a house, aMercedes-Benz, and a club liaison officer who assisted with Evaristo's marriage to his childhood sweetheart Norma three months later. Each player had an individual fan club arranged by the club, but the players outside of training and official activity were free to enjoy life and relax in the city.[2]
Playing in a Barcelona side alongsideLászló Kubala andLuis Suárez, and managed byHelenio Herrera, Evaristo scored in the first official match played at theCamp Nou in September 1957, and became the first player to score a hat-trick at the ground. In the following season, he scored three goals against European championsReal Madrid en route to Barcelona's firstLa Liga title in six years.[2] On 23 November 1960, in the second leg of aEuropean Cup tie against Real Madrid at the Camp Nou, during which the English referee ruled out four separate goals for Real Madrid, Evaristo scored a diving header with eight minutes to go, which eliminated Barcelona's rivals from the competition for the first time and ended their hopes of a sixth successive title. Evaristo scored six times during Barcelona's run to theirfirst European Cup final, which they lost 3–2 toBenfica at theWankdorf Stadium inBern, now remembered as the "Square-Posts Final" due to the match supposedly being the reason the shape of the goalposts was changed.[2]
During Evaristo's time with Barcelona, the club won two league titles, acup title, and twoInter-Cities Fairs Cups. Barcelona's statistics department state that in official matches, Evaristo scored 105 goals in 151 games for the side, while the club's official site states in total he scored 181 in 237. OnlyRivaldo, who scored 129 goals in 235 games between 1997 and 2002, has more official goals by a Brazilian for Barcelona than Evaristo; Evaristo however still retains the best goals-per-game ratio of any Brazilian to play more than 50 games for Barcelona.[2][3]
Unfortunately, Evaristo's relationship with Barcelona with regards to international representation had been strained from the start. Having played every minute of a two-legged World Cup qualifier againstPeru, and with eight goals in fourteen games, when they signed him Barcelona verbally agreed to release Evaristo for the World Cup final tournament in Sweden. However, with Spain having failed to qualify, the Spanish Cup went ahead at the same time as the tournament in Sweden, and Barcelona went back on their promise to release him. Brazil went on to win their first World Cup, with 17-year-oldPelé their headlining player; Evaristo would never wear the famous Brazilian yellow shirt again.[2]
In 1962, wanting to sign another foreign player – yet with rules only allowing one per team under both Spanish and European rules – Barcelona asked Evaristo to naturalise as a Spanish citizen. After bitter wrangling, Evaristo agreed to quit Barcelona that summer.[2] Although he had offers from clubs in both France and Italy, with his family happy in Spain Evaristo agreed to join rivalsReal Madrid. In contrast to the transfer ofLuís Figo 38 years later, Barcelona's fans directed their anger not at the player, but at the board.[2] Despite a serious knee injury limiting him to just nineteen appearances and six goals for Real Madrid, Evaristo still won two La Liga titles in two seasons with the club.[2]
Evaristo returned as he had planned to Flamengo in 1965, adding another league title before retiring a year later, at the age of 33.[2]
Evaristo competed for Brazil at the1952 Summer Olympics, alongside other notable players such asVavá andZózimo.[4]
Evaristo was capped by thenational side fourteen times, scoring eight goals. He also holds the record of most goals for the Brazil national team in a single match, with Evaristo netting five times for theSeleção in a 9–0 win overColombia in 1957.[5]
Evaristo played every minute of Brazil'stwo-legged 1958 World Cup qualifying tie against Peru, and with a total of eight goals in fourteen matches played, he was expected to be a starter for Brazil at thefinal tournament in Sweden. However, withSpain failing to qualify, theSpanish Cup went ahead at the same time as the World Cup, and Barcelona went back on their initial promise to release Evaristo for the tournament in Sweden; this soured the relationship between Evaristo and the club, and he would go on to join rivals Real Madrid, never playing again for the national team.[6]
Evaristo had a brief tenure as manager of theBrazil national team in 1985, and he later became head coach ofIraq for the1986 World Cup. Evaristo would take on various further managerial positions, including three separate stints in charge of his former club Flamengo.
| Club | Season | League | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | ||
| Barcelona | 1957–58 | La Liga | 24 | 13 |
| 1958–59 | 23 | 20 | ||
| 1959–60 | 24 | 14 | ||
| 1960–61 | 21 | 11 | ||
| 1961–62 | 22 | 20 | ||
| Total | 114 | 78 | ||
| Real Madrid | 1962–63 | La Liga | 7 | 3 |
| 1963–64 | 10 | 1 | ||
| Total | 17 | 4 | ||
| Team | Nat | From | To | Record | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % | ||||
| Fluminense |  | 10 January 1968 | 1 December 1968 | 40 | 14 | 7 | 19 | 51 | 56 | −5 | 035.00 |
| Vasco da Gama | | 10 January 1969 | 1 December 1969 | 41 | 12 | 12 | 17 | 47 | 42 | +5 | 029.27 |
| Qatar |  | 1 August 1980 | 24 April 1985 | 54 | 28 | 12 | 14 | 86 | 41 | +45 | 051.85 |
| Brazil | | 25 April 1985 | 21 May 1985 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 6 | +1 | 050.00 |
| Qatar | | 1 June 1985 | 1 May 1986 | 16 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 18 | −7 | 025.00 |
| Iraq |  | 1 May 1986 | 13 June 1986 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | −3 | 000.00 |
| Qatar | | 1 January 1992 | 30 December 1992 | 16 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 26 | 14 | +12 | 043.75 |
| Total | 176 | 68 | 42 | 66 | 229 | 181 | +48 | 038.64 | |||
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