| Paulo Roberto Falcão (Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation: ; born 16 October 1953), usually known as simply Falcão, is a Brazilian former footballer and football manager. He is universally considered one of the greatest Brazilian players of all time and one of the greatest midfielders in football history, and one of the best players in the world in his position at his peak in the 1980s.
Falcão is widely considered one of the best players in Internacional and Roma history, playing also for São Paulo. At one stage, he was the world's highest paid footballer.
Due to his success and performances with Roma, Falcão earned the nickname "the eighth King of Rome" from the fans, like Amedeo Amadei before him, and was inducted into the club's Hall of Fame in 2013.
For the Brazil national team, Falcão was capped 34 times between February 1976 and June 1986. He appeared at the 1982 FIFA World Cup, playing in midfield alongside Zico, Sócrates and Éder, considered one of the greatest Brazilian national teams ever. He was named by Pelé one of the 125 Greatest Living Footballers at a FIFA Awards ceremony in 2004. Colombian forward Radamel Falcao's father was a footballer and football fan and named him after Falcão. Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License - Full article |
Torpedo Jo 18-Jul-11 22:17
Former South American champions Internacional have sacked coach Paulo Roberto Falcao and football director Roberto Siegmann, the Brazilian club said on Monday.
The decision came about for a number of factors, club president Giovanni Luigi was quoted as telling a news conference on their website (www.internacional.com.br).
I understand we weren t getting results and the (team s) performances were unsatisfactory. It was a decision that had to be taken, it was time to make a change.
He added that the new coach and the club s new director of football would be named by Wednesday at the latest.
Former Brazil midfielder and Internacional idol Falcao was appointed in mid-April after Celso Roth, who steered the Reds to their second South American Libertadores Cup victory last year, was sacked.
Under Roth, Inter failed in December to regain the Club World Cup title they had won in 2006 when they became the first team from outside Europe or South America to fall in the semi-finals, beaten by African champions TP Mazembe of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Results under Falcao have been mixed and his sacking comes after three successive defeats in the Brazilian Championship where Inter are eighth with 15 points from 11 matches.
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