Zico

Arthur Antunes Coimbra , born three March 1953 in Rio Janeiro, better called Zico , is a Brazilian coach and former football player, who contend as an offensive midfielder. typically called the “White Pelé”, he was an original playmaker, with glorious technical skills, vision, and a watch for goal, who is taken into account one amongst the foremost clinical finishers and best passers ever, further in the concert of the best players of all time. Arguably the world’s best player of the late Nineteen Seventies and early 80s, he’s thought to be one of the most effective playmakers and place kick specialists in history, able to bend the ball altogether directions. In 1999, Zico came eighth within the FIFA Player of the Century jury vote, and in 2004 was named in the FIFA 100 list of the world’s greatest living players. in line with Pelé, thought of one of the most effective players ever, “throughout the years, the one player that came nearest to Maine was Zico”

With forty-eight goals in seventy-one official appearances for Brazil, Zico is fifth highest goalscorer for his national team. He diagrammatic them within the 1978, 1982 and 1986 World Cups. They failed to win any of these tournaments, albeit the 1982 squad is taken into account one amongst the best Brazilian national squads ever. Zico is commonly thought of one amongst the most effective players in soccer history to not are on a World Cup winning squad. He was chosen because of 1981[14] and 1983 Player of the Year.

Zico has coached the Japanese national team, showing within the 2006 FIFA World Cup and winning the Asian Cup 2004, and Fenerbahçe, who were a quarter-finalist in 2007–08 within the Champions League under his command. He was proclaimed because of the head coach of CSKA Moscow in January 2009. On 16 Sep 2009, Zico was signed by Greek aspect Olympiacos for a biennial contract once the club’s previous coach, Temuri Ketsbaia, was sacked. He was fired four months later, on 19 January 2010. He presently works as a technical director at Kashima Antlers