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Vavá
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Edvaldo Izidio Neto (12 November 1934 – 19 January 2002), commonly known as Vavá, was a Brazilian professional footballer who is widely considered to be one of the greatest strikers of his generation. Nicknamed "Peito de Aço" (Steel Chest), he most notably played for Vasco da Gama, Atlético Madrid, Palmeiras and the Brazil national team.
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Vavá was a Brazilian male association football player and coach who played as a forward. Born in Recife on November 12, 1934, he represented Brazil in the 1952 Summer Olympics, the 1958 FIFA World Cup, and the 1962 FIFA World Cup. His professional career began in 1949, and he was a member of several clubs, including Sport Club do Recife, Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras, Associação Portuguesa de Desportos, and Toros Neza. He was also known by the pseudonym Peito de Aço.
Standing 174 centimeters tall and weighing 71 kilograms, Vavá spoke Portuguese. He died of natural causes due to a myocardial infarction in Rio de Janeiro on January 19, 2002.
Synthesized by Vinony from 38 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Thesportsdb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Soup
- Soup!
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Suginami
- Active from
- 1993-01-05
Discography
- Blue Popcorn2013
- Jonathan2016
- low mind boi2017
- Virtual2018
- Idiot2018
- Virtual Luv2018
- Universe2018
- Chapter2019
- 8 bit Cherry2019
- VVORLD2019
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 9,220
- Total plays
- 40,888
Tags
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Vav%C3%A1">Read more on Last.fm</a>
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Recent publications · Crossref
3 total works indexed
- Os sentidos da Autodeterminação: povo, nação e Estado
- Culture in politics between liberalism and romanticism: from the \"modern Janus\" to contemporaneity
- Towards a philosophical foundation of human rights in contemporaneity
· 2022
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Football biography.name
- Vavá
- Football biography.image
- Vavá en 1962.jpg
- Football biography.caption
- Vavá in 1962
- Football biography.fullname
- Edvaldo Izídio Neto
- Football biography.birth_place
- Recife, Brazil
- Football biography.death_place
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Football biography.position
- Striker
- Football biography.years1
- 1949–1950
- Football biography.years2
- 1951–1958
- Football biography.years3
- 1958–1961
- Football biography.years4
- 1961–1963
- Football biography.years5
- 1964–1967
- Football biography.years6
- 1967–1968
- Football biography.years7
- 1968
- Football biography.years8
- 1969
- Football biography.clubs1
- Sport Recife
- Football biography.clubs2
- Vasco da Gama
- Football biography.clubs3
- Atlético Madrid
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Tennis
- Team
- _Retired Tennis
- Position
- Tennis Player
- Nationality
- Italy
via TheSportsDB
~4 min read
Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- International career
- Club statistics
- Honours
- Club
- International
- Individual
- References
- Sources
- External links
Edvaldo Izidio Neto (12 November 1934 – 19 January 2002), commonly known as Vavá, was a Brazilian professional footballer who is widely considered to be one of the greatest strikers of his generation. Nicknamed "Peito de Aço" (Steel Chest), he most notably played for Vasco da Gama, Atlético Madrid, Palmeiras and the Brazil national team.
==International career== Vavá earned twenty caps with the Brazil national team between 1955 and 1964, scoring a total of fifteen goals. He was in the side that won both the 1958 and 1962 FIFA World Cups, in which he scored five and four goals, respectively. Furthermore, he was a joint-recipient of the 1962 World Cup Golden Boot as one of the tournament's top scorers. Vavá was also part of Brazil's squad for the 1952 Summer Olympics.
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