Mário Sérgio (Brazilian footballer)
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| Mário Sérgio | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Mário Sérgio Pontes de Paiva | |
| Date of birth | September 7, 1950 | |
| Place of birth | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | |
| Playing position | Midfield | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1969–1971 1971–1975 1975–1976 1976–1979 1979 1979–1981 1981–1982 1982–1983 1983 1984 1984–1985 1986 1986 1987 |
Flamengo Vitória Fluminese Botofogo Rosario Central Internacional São Paulo Ponte Preta Grêmio Internacional Palmeiras Botafogo (SP AC Belinzona Esporte Clube Bahia |
0 (0) 82 (6) 14 (0) 20 (3) 0 (0) 53 (4) 11 (1) 7 (1) 0 (0) 8 (1) 11 (1) 0 (0) 0 (0) 1 (0) |
| National team | ||
| 1981–1985 | Brazil | 8 (0) |
| Teams managed | ||
| 2007 2007 |
Figueirense Botofogo |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Mário Sérgio Pontes de Paiva, more commonly known as Mário Sérgio, (born September 7, 1950 in Rio De Janeiro) is a retired Brazilian footballer currently working as a manager, although he is currently unemployed.
[edit] Career
[edit] Playing career
Mário Sérgio began his career in football with local club Flamengo, 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 to Salvador based club Vitória where he made over 80 league appearances, and won the Campeonato 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's, Flamengo, 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 the Campeonato Carioca title in '75. But he soon began transferring to eight clubs across Brazil and one in Argentina, 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: a Campeonato Brasileiro Série A league title in 1979, the highest league in Brazilian football; two Campeonato Gaúcho league titles in 1981 and 1984 and a Intercontinental Cup with Grêmio in 1984 after his side beat Liverpool 1–0.
After a brief spell in Europe with Swiss team AC Belinzona, the Brazilian moved back to Brazil with Esporte Clube Bahia in 1987 where he would make one final league appearance before retiring that year.
[edit] Managerial career
After retiring in '87, Sérgio embarked on a career in coaching with roles at his former clubs Vitória and São Paulo as well as with Corinthians. 20 years after his retirement from football as a player, the Brazilian embarked on a career in football management after being announced as the manager of Figueirense Futebol Clube. Sérgio, however would only stay there for six months where he led his team to the final of the Copa do Brasil before losing in the final 2–1 on aggregate to Fluminense. But, unable to maintain this consistency, he left his role later that year. Only weeks after leaving the club, Sérgio found a new managerial job, this time with Botofogo, a club he had played for as a player. 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.
