Edmundo Alves de Souza Neto

Edmundo
Personal information
Full name Edmundo Alves de Souza Neto
Date of birth 2 April 1971 (1971-04-02) (age 40)
Place of birth Niterói, Brazil
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)
Playing position Second striker
Youth career
1982–1986 Vasco da Gama
1987–1989 Botafogo
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
1990–1992 Vasco da Gama 23 (8)
1993–1995 Palmeiras 40 (20)
1995 Flamengo 14 (2)
1996 Corinthians 0 (0)
1996–1997 Vasco da Gama 44 (38)
1997–1999 Fiorentina 37 (12)
1999–2000 Vasco da Gama 16 (13)
2000 Santos 20 (13)
2001 Napoli 17 (4)
2001 Cruzeiro 12 (3)
2001–2002 Tokyo Verdy 31 (18)
2003 Urawa Red Diamonds 0 (0)
2003–2004 Vasco da Gama 20 (7)
2004 Fluminense 19 (7)
2005 Nova Iguaçu 2 (1)
2005 Figueirense 31 (15)
2005–2007 Palmeiras 49 (14)
2008 Vasco da Gama 26 (13)
Total 401 (188)
National team
1992–2000 Brazil 39 (10)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 10 October 2008.
† Appearances (Goals).

Edmundo Alves de Souza Neto (born 2 April 1971 in Niterói), better known simply as Edmundo, is a retired Brazilian footballer.

Edmundo played for Brazil at the 1998 World Cup. For Palmeiras, he won the Campeonato Brasileiro in the beginning of the Nineties. For Vasco da Gama he won 1997's Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, scoring 29 goals. In that same year, Vasco da Gama scored 69 goals. Edmundo also scored 6 goals in the same game in 1997, against a club from São Paulo, União São João.

In 1999 he faced prosecution by animal welfare groups after hiring an entire circus to perform in his back garden to celebrate his son's first birthday. At the party he was accused by some individuals of the press of having a chimpanzee called Pedrinho drunk on beer and whiskey. Subsequent images of this appeared in the media (including the February, 2004 issue of the UK version of FHM magazine) and have passed into football legend. [1]. Days later, Edmundo proved those accusations were false. He also escaped a prison sentence for drinking driving during carnival of the same year after being involved in an accident that resulted in the deaths of his three passengers, for his behaviour he received seven day suspended sentence and was two days late returning to Florence according to the Italian sports daily Corriere della Sera.

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Current information

During the end of his career, Edmundo had good performances, although he was not psychically so strong as in the mid-90s. That is why he alternated great appearances with bad ones. Even though, his football skills were fundamental to Figuerense avoid the relegation in the Campeonato Brasileiro da Serie A de 2005 and Palmeiras the relegation in Campeonato Brasileiro da Serie A de 2006.

He was the main footballer of Palmeiras (along with Jorge Valdivia and Marcos Reis) in the 2007 season, but his contract was not renewed. There are two versions of this fact: according to the "official" one, his salary was too high for his irregular performances. But it is more possible that the actual reason was that Caio Júnior, who was favorable to this permanence, was sacked and Vanderlei Luxemburgo, who has personal problems with Edmundo, was hired.

In January 2008, Edmundo returned to Vasco da Gama. Unfortunately, he could not do anything when Vasco da Gama was relegated to Campeonato Brasileiro da Série B de 2009.

In the middle of 2009, he became a football pundit in Rede TV!. In the beginning of 2010, Rede Bandeirantes hired him. He was part of the broadcaster's jornalstics team in the 2010 FIFA World Cup coverage.

Edmundo & Vasco da Gama: A Complicated History

The history of Edmundo, as a football player, is strongly intertwined with Vasco da Gama. In that club he started his first steps in amateur divisions and as professional.

In 1997 Vasco won the Brazilian National Championship.

Edmundo always says that his love for Vasco da Gama is like a son-mother love.

Honours

Club
International
Individual

Career statistics

Club performance League Cup League Cup Continental Total
Season Club League Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Brazil League Copa do Brasil League Cup South America Total
1991 Vasco da Gama Série A 0 0
1992 Série A 23 8
1993 Palmeiras Série A 19 11
1994 Série A 21 9
1995 Flamengo Série A 14 2
1996 Corinthians Série A 0 0 27 27 10 5
1996 Vasco da Gama Série A 16 9
1997 Série A 28 29
Italy League Coppa Italia League Cup Europe Total
1997–98 Fiorentina Serie A 9 4
1998–99 28 8
Brazil League Copa do Brasil League Cup South America Total
1999 Vasco da Gama Série A 16 13
2000 Santos Série A 20 13
Italy League Coppa Italia League Cup Europe Total
2000–01 Napoli Serie A 17 4
Brazil League Copa do Brasil League Cup South America Total
2001 Cruzeiro Série A 12 3
Japan League Emperor's Cup League Cup Asia Total
2001 Tokyo Verdy J. League 5 2 3 2 0 0 - 8 4
2002 26 16 0 0 6 5 - 32 21
2003 Urawa Red Diamonds J. League 0 0 0 0 2 0 - 2 0
Brazil League Copa do Brasil League Cup South America Total
2003 Vasco da Gama Série A 20 7
2004 Fluminense Série A 19 7
2005 Nova Iguaçu 0 0
2005 Figueirense Série A 31 15
2006 Palmeiras Série A 29 10
2007 20 4
2008 Vasco da Gama Série A 25 13
Total Brazil 291 143
Italy 54 16
Japan 31 18 3 2 8 5 - 42 25
Career total 376 177

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Brazil national team
Year Apps Goals
1992 4 1
1993 5 1
1994 0 0
1995 12 5
1996 1 0
1997 5 2
1998 8 1
1999 0 0
2000 2 0
Total 37 10

References and notes

  1. ^ http://www.national-football-teams.com/v2/player.php?id=10580

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