Mário Sérgio Pontes de Paiva (7 September 1950 – 28 November 2016), known as Mário Sérgio, was a Brazilian football player and manager. He later became a commentator for Fox Sports Brazil, which he joined at the channel's inception in 2012.[1] He died in the LaMia Airlines Flight 2933 accident in the Colombian village of Cerro Gordo, La Unión, Antioquia, while travelling with the Chapecoense football squad for the Copa Sudamericana finals on 28 November 2016.[2]
 Mário Sérgio in 1979 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Mário Sérgio Pontes de Paiva | ||
| Date of birth | 7 September 1950 | ||
| Place of birth | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | ||
| Date of death | 28 November 2016 (aged 66) | ||
| Place of death | La Unión, Antioquia, Colombia | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1968–1969 | Flamengo | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1970 | Flamengo | 5 | (1) |
| 1971–1975 | Vitória | 82 | (6) |
| 1975–1976 | Fluminense | 14 | (0) |
| 1976–1979 | Botafogo | 20 | (3) |
| 1979 | Rosario Central | 0 | (0) |
| 1979–1981 | Internacional | 53 | (4) |
| 1981–1982 | São Paulo | 11 | (1) |
| 1982–1983 | Ponte Preta | 7 | (1) |
| 1983 | Grêmio | 0 | (0) |
| 1984 | Internacional | 8 | (1) |
| 1984–1985 | Palmeiras | 11 | (1) |
| 1986 | Botafogo (SP) | 0 | (0) |
| 1986 | AC Bellinzona | 0 | (0) |
| 1987 | Bahia | 1 | (0) |
| International career | |||
| 1981–1985 | Brazil | 8 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1987 | Vitória | ||
| 1993–1995 | Corinthians | ||
| 1998 | São Paulo | ||
| 2001 | Vitória | ||
| 2001 | Atlético Paranaense | ||
| 2002–2003 | São Caetano | ||
| 2003–2004 | Atlético Paranaense | ||
| 2004 | Atlético Mineiro | ||
| 2007 | Figueirense | ||
| 2007 | Botafogo | ||
| 2008 | Atlético Paranaense | ||
| 2008 | Figueirense | ||
| 2009 | Portuguesa | ||
| 2009 | Internacional | ||
| 2010 | Ceará | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Career
editPlaying career
editMário 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, Flamengo's 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 1975. 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 an Intercontinental Cup with Grêmio in 1983 after his side beat Hamburger SV 2–1.
After a brief spell in Europe with Swiss team AC Bellinzona, the Brazilian moved back to Brazil with Esporte Clube Bahia in 1987 where he would make one final league appearance before retiring that year.
Managerial career
editAfter retiring in 1987, Sérgio embarked on a career in coaching with roles at his former clubs Vitória and São Paulo as well as with Corinthians, Atlético Paranaense and Atlético Mineiro.[3] In 2007, Mário Sérgio assumed control of Figueirense Futebol Clube.[3] 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.[4] But, unable to maintain this consistency, he left his role later that year.[5] Only weeks after leaving the club, Sérgio found a new managerial job, this time with Botafogo, a club he had played for as a player.[3] 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.[6] In 2008, after briefly working as Atlético Paranaense's manager, on 16 September he was hired as Figueirense's manager.[7] Portuguesa had sacked coach Estevam Soares and hired the former Figueirense coach.[8] On 6 March 2009 Portuguesa officials fired the coach after five wins, five draws and two losses.[9]
On 5 October 2009, Sérgio was announced as Internacional new coach. He remained with the team until the end of the 2009 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, where Inter finished as runners-up to Flamengo.[10] Sérgio's contract was not renewed for 2010, and he wound up hired by Ceará. By September, with Ceará only at 11th in the Brasileirão, Sérgio was fired.[11]
Honours
editPlayer
edit- Flamengo
- Taça Guanabara: 1970
- Vitória
- Campeonato Baiano: 1972
- Fluminense
- Campeonato Carioca: 1975, 1976
- São Paulo
- Campeonato Paulista: 1981
- Internacional
- Campeonato Brasileiro Série A: 1979
- Campeonato Gaúcho: 1981, 1984
- Kirin Cup: 1984
- Grêmio
References
edit- ^ "Mário Sérgio - Que fim levou?".
- ^ Weaver, Matthew; Malkin, Bonnie (29 November 2016). "Colombia plane crash: Fans gather to mourn Chapecoense footballers among 75 killed – as it happened". The Guardian.
- ^ a b c "Mário Sérgio". Sambafoot. 8 October 2007. Retrieved 12 August 2008.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Fluminense vence fora e conquista Copa do Brasil pela 1ª vez" (in Portuguese). UOL Esporte. 6 June 2007. Retrieved 12 August 2008.
- ^ "Após goleada, Figueirense demite técnico Mário Sérgio" (in Portuguese). Estadão. 6 September 2007. Archived from the original on 31 December 2012. Retrieved 12 August 2008.
- ^ "Mário Sérgio pede demissão e Cuca reassume o Botafogo" (in Portuguese). Estadão. 7 October 2007. Archived from the original on 17 March 2008. Retrieved 12 August 2008.
- ^ "Figueirense anuncia contratação do técnico Mário Sérgio" (in Portuguese). Filha Online. 16 September 2008. Retrieved 16 September 2008.
- ^ "Portuguesa demite Soares e contrata Mário Sérgio - Esportes".
- ^ "Associação Portuguesa de Desportos - Brasil". Archived from the original on 12 March 2009. Retrieved 4 November 2009.
- ^ "GloboEsporte.com > Futebol > Internacional - NOTÍCIAS - Inter confirma: Fossati é novo técnico". Archived from the original on 8 April 2015. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
- ^ "Em 11º lugar no Brasileiro, Ceará demite treinador Mário Sérgio - 09/09/2010 - UOL Esporte - Futebol".