Key facts
- 1962
- Brazil
- 1975
- Windsor Star
- Date of birth
- ( 1940-07-09 ) 9 July 1940
- Place of birth
- Santo André , São Paulo, Brazil
- Date of death
- 26 April 2025 (2025-04-26) (aged 84)
- Place of death
- Osasco , São Paulo, Brazil
- Height
- 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
- Position
- Right winger
- Years
- Team
- 1960 1962
- Portuguesa
- 1962 1967
- Inter Milan
- 1967 1968
- Roma
- 1968 1972
- Inter Milan
- 1972 1974
- Santos
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jair
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Brazil
- Place of birth
- Santo André
- Place of death
- Osasco
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- Portuguese
- Participant in
- 1962 FIFA World Cup
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Brazil men's national football team
- Position played
- forward
- Country for sport
- Brazil
- Mass
- 67
- Image
- Jair FC Internazionale Milano.png
- Height
- 174
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- end of work period
- 1974-00-00
- date of birth
- 1940-07-09
- Commons category
- Jair da Costa
- start of work period
- 1961-00-00
- number of matches played/races/starts
- 4
- total goals in career
- 0
- date of death
- 2025-04-26
- name in native language
- Jair da Costa
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Encyclopedic overview
* Club domestic league appearances and goals
Jair da Costa ([ʒaˈiʁ da ˈkɔsta]; 9 July 1940 – 26 April 2025), known simply as Jair, was a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a right winger. Apart from playing in Brazil, he played professionally in clubs in Italy, where his teams won the European Cup and the Intercontinental Cup several times, as well as in Canada. Internationally, he briefly played for the Brazil national team. He was a member of the Brazilian team that won the 1962 FIFA World Cup, but he did not play in the World Cup.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jair da Costa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.