Biography of ZIKO football player

Born: March 3 of the year. See the biography and career of football player Ziko was born in Rio de Janeiro, like that and the vast majority of Brazilian boys, his only hobby was football. Until 14 years old, he played on the street, and then ended up at the Flmengo school. They almost refused to take him there because of the small weight-Ziko weighed only 37 kilograms.

But the amazing technique, demonstrated by the young man, forced the coaches to change the initial decision. True, Ziko had to do a lot in the gym and take special drugs in order to gain muscle mass. He possessed an amazing technique even for the Brazilian, could make a solo pass, he perfectly saw the field, despite not high growth, played his head great. But the main thing is penalties.

Legends go about the ability to beat the standing ball. For example, I had to read that the percentage of penalties he had implemented was approaching honestly, speaking, I could not believe it very much, but I can’t refute this either. By the way, this can explain the phenomenal performance of ZICO. For Flamengo, he scored heads and this is the best result in the history of the club.

Moreover, I remind you that Ziko was not an attacker, his role is a midfielder. Largely thanks to the phenomenal game of his leader in E - E - the Flags experienced one of the best periods in his history. In the year, the club first won the Brazilian championship, and a year later his only Libertadores Cup still. About the finale against the Chilean "Cobreloa" should be told especially.

On the “Marakan” “Flamengo” won thanks to the oak Ziko, but in the return match he lost in it “FLA” won and again both goals were on the ZICO account. In the year, after his Italian business trip, Ziko returned to his native club, where he played for four years, after which he announced the end of the player’s career. However, Ziko did not dare to move to Europe for a long time, and only at the age of 30 he went to the modest "Udinese".

Already in the first season, Ziko scored 19 goals in the Italian championship. The best scorer Michel Platini turned out to be more than a goal, but let's not forget that the Frenchman played for the Juventus champion, and Ziko for the team from the middle of the table. The Brazilian is recognized as the best player in the championship, and in his record - 19 goals in the first season in the Italy championship will be beaten only after two decades.

This will be done by another Brazilian - Ronaldo. Having played for “Udinese” for two years, Ziko will return to his homeland. Having quickly adapted to European football, he will not be able to get used to life abroad. Japanese clubs "Sumitomo Metis" - having spent two years without football, ZICO will accept the proposal of the Japanese "Sumitomo Metis". In the Land of the Rising Sun, they seriously took up football, deciding to put it on professional rails.

Ziko was one of those players, next to whom local players should grow. Brazil’s national team for Brazil’s national team made his debut in the year, spent 72 matches for it, in which he scored 52 goals. There are three world championships behind him, and all Ziko was the leader of his team. At the World Cup, the Brazilian national team in the second group round, only by the difference in the ball missed the hosts of the tournament - Argentines.

Moreover, the match of the final round of Argentina - Peru still has a shade of scandalous. After all, he was played later than other meetings and the Argentines already knew how many balls they needed to score their opponent whose gate, by the way, was protected by their compatriot. In the match for Bronze, the Brazilians defeated the Italian team. Then it seemed that this was only the beginning.

But, alas. The magnificent generation of Brazilian football players, led by Ziko and Socrates, was left without the gold of the mundials. In the year, Ziko with 4 goals became the best scorer of the Brazilian national team at the championship. One of the heads he scored into the gates of the worst enemy - the Argentina national team, opening the score in the first match of the second group stage, but then the Italian team led by Paulo Rossi stood in the path of the Trikampeons.

And four years later, Ziko became the culprit of the defeat in the quarterfinals from the French national team. In the score 15 minutes before the end of the match, he could not realize the penalty, which happened extremely rarely to him. The account in the match did not change, and in the series of meter, the Brazilians lost the way, in it they could not score two other great football players - Michelle Platini and Socrates.

This match was the last in the T -shirt of the national team for Ziko. Ziko is a coach of course, a ziko trainer is far from a ziko-football player, but here he has achieved certain successes.

He began the assistant to the head coach of the Brazilian national team at the World Cup. In the year, Ziko headed the Japanese national team and two years later led it to the victory at the Asian Cup. Under the leadership of Ziko, the Japanese made their way to the World Cup, but could not leave the group there. Then there were Turkish "Fenerbahce", the Uzbek "Budenkor", the Moscow CSKA - with each of these clubs, the Brazilian won trophies.

Although in the case of the same CSKA, it is probably impossible to consider his work successful. The last place of his work was the Club of the Indian Super League “Goa”, which Ziko headed for years. Ziko titles.