| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Edvaldo Izídio Neto | ||
| Date of birth | 12 November 1934 | ||
| Place of birth | Recife, Brazil | ||
| Date of death | 19 January 2002 (aged 67) | ||
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1949–1950 | Sport Recife | ||
| 1951–1958 | Vasco da Gama | ||
| 1958–1961 | Atlético Madrid | 71 | (31) |
| 1961–1963 | Palmeiras | ||
| 1964–1967 | América | ||
| 1967–1968 | Toros Neza | ||
| 1968 | San Diego Toros | 28 | (5) |
| 1969 | Portuguesa | ||
| National team | |||
| 1955–1964 | Brazil | 20 | (15) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1971–1972 | Córdoba | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). |
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Vavá, real name Edvaldo Izídio Neto, (born 12 November 1934 in Recife, Brazil; died 19 January 2002 in Rio de Janeiro) was an association footballer who is widely considered one of the best strikers of his generation. His nickname was "Peito de Aço" (Steel Chest). He played as a full striker (center forward) whose only role was to score goals, which he did for Sport Club do Recife, C.R. Vasco da Gama, S.E. Palmeiras and the Brazilian national team.
Vava earned 20 caps with the Brazilian national team, scoring a total of 15 goals. He was on the side that won both the 1958 and 1962 World Cup, in which he scored 5 and 4 goals, respectively. Furthermore, he was a joint recipient of the 1962 World Cup Golden Shoe award.
Vavá scored in the final of both 1958 (twice) and 1962 (once), thus becoming the first player to score in the final of two different world cups. To this day, only four players achieved this feat, the other three being Pelé, Paul Breitner and Zinedine Zidane.
| Club performance | League | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Club | League | Apps | Goals |
| Spain | League | |||
| 1958/59 | Atlético Madrid | La Liga | 27 | 16 |
| 1959/60 | 29 | 10 | ||
| 1960/61 | 15 | 5 | ||
| Country | Spain | 71 | 31 | |
| Total | 71 | 31 | ||
| Preceded by Just Fontaine |
FIFA World Cup Golden Shoe 1962 Shared with: Dražan Jerković, Garrincha, Flórián Albert, Leonel Sánchez and Valentin Ivanov |
Succeeded by Eusébio |
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