 Mário Sérgio in 1979 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Mário Sérgio Pontes de Paiva | ||
| Date of birth | (1950-09-07)7 September 1950 | ||
| Place of birth | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | ||
| Date of death | 28 November 2016(2016-11-28) (aged 66) | ||
| Place of death | La Unión,Antioquia, Colombia | ||
| Position | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1968–1969 | Flamengo | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1970 | Flamengo | 5 | (1) |
| 1971–1975 | Vitória | 82 | (6) |
| 1975–1976 | Fluminense | 14 | (0) |
| 1976–1979 | Botafogo | 20 | (3) |
| 1979 | Rosario Central | 0 | (0) |
| 1979–1981 | Internacional | 53 | (4) |
| 1981–1982 | São Paulo | 11 | (1) |
| 1982–1983 | Ponte Preta | 7 | (1) |
| 1983 | Grêmio | 0 | (0) |
| 1984 | Internacional | 8 | (1) |
| 1984–1985 | Palmeiras | 11 | (1) |
| 1986 | Botafogo (SP) | 0 | (0) |
| 1986 | AC Bellinzona | 0 | (0) |
| 1987 | Bahia | 1 | (0) |
| International career | |||
| 1981–1985 | Brazil | 8 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1987 | Vitória | ||
| 1993–1995 | Corinthians | ||
| 1998 | São Paulo | ||
| 2001 | Vitória | ||
| 2001 | Atlético Paranaense | ||
| 2002–2003 | São Caetano | ||
| 2003–2004 | Atlético Paranaense | ||
| 2004 | Atlético Mineiro | ||
| 2007 | Figueirense | ||
| 2007 | Botafogo | ||
| 2008 | Atlético Paranaense | ||
| 2008 | Figueirense | ||
| 2009 | Portuguesa | ||
| 2009 | Internacional | ||
| 2010 | Ceará | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Mário Sérgio Pontes de Paiva (7 September 1950 – 28 November 2016), known asMário Sérgio, was a Brazilianfootball player and manager. He later became a commentator forFox Sports Brazil, which he joined at the channel's inception in 2012.[1] He died in theLaMia Airlines Flight 2933 accident in the Colombian village of Cerro Gordo,La Unión, Antioquia, while travelling with theChapecoense football squad for the Copa Sudamericana finals on 28 November 2016.[2]
Mário Sérgio began his career in football with local clubFlamengo, although he didn't make a first team appearance for the team. After two years at the club, the Brazilian midfielder moved north from Rio toSalvador based clubVitória where he made over 80 league appearances, and won theCampeonato Baiano league in 1972, in his five-year stint with the club. In 1975, the Brazilian was transferred for the second time in his career, this time to his former club, Flamengo's rivals:Fluminense. The midfielder, played fourteen times in his two years back in Rio, which included a second league title win of his career after his team secured theCampeonato Carioca title in 1975. But he soon began transferring to eight clubs across Brazil and one inArgentina,Rosario Central, for the next decade where he stayed for a maximum of three years.
During this time, Sérgio made his international début for Brazil in 1981 and picked up a number of honours at club level, including: aCampeonato Brasileiro Série A league title in 1979, the highest league in Brazilian football; twoCampeonato Gaúcho league titles in 1981 and 1984 and anIntercontinental Cup withGrêmio in 1983 after his side beatHamburger SV 2–1.
After a brief spell inEurope withSwiss teamAC Bellinzona, the Brazilian moved back to Brazil withEsporte Clube Bahia in 1987 where he would make one final league appearance before retiring that year.
After retiring in 1987, Sérgio embarked on a career in coaching with roles at his former clubs Vitória and São Paulo as well as withCorinthians,Atlético Paranaense andAtlético Mineiro.[3] In 2007, Mário Sérgio assumed control ofFigueirense Futebol Clube.[3] Sérgio, however would only stay there for six months where he led his team to the final of theCopa do Brasil before losing in the final 2–1 on aggregate toFluminense.[4] But, unable to maintain this consistency, he left his role later that year.[5] Only weeks after leaving the club, Sérgio found a new managerial job, this time with Botafogo, a club he had played for as a player.[3] The job would only last until early the following month after he had only managed the team for three league matches: all of them losses.[6] In 2008, after briefly working asAtlético Paranaense's manager, on 16 September he was hired as Figueirense's manager.[7] Portuguesa had sacked coach Estevam Soares and hired the former Figueirense coach.[8] On 6 March 2009 Portuguesa officials fired the coach after five wins, five draws and two losses.[9]
On 5 October 2009, Sérgio was announced asInternacional new coach. He remained with the team until the end of the2009 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, where Inter finished as runners-up toFlamengo.[10] Sérgio's contract was not renewed for 2010, and he wound up hired byCeará. By September, with Ceará only at 11th in the Brasileirão, Sérgio was fired.[11]