Túlio Maravilha
Túlio Humberto Pereira Costa (born June 2, 1969), sometimes simply referred as Túlio or Túlio Maravilha ("Wonder Túlio"), was a Brazilian international football (soccer) forward. He played for many Brazilian club teams, such as Goiás, Botafogo, Corinthians, Vitória, Fluminense, Cruzeiro and Vila Nova and several lower-division teams in Brazil. In Europe, he had short-lived career, playing for Sion and Újpest.
His best years were while he was at Botafogo, where he was three times the Brazilian top scorer (1989, 1994 and 1995) and won the 1995 Campeonato Brasileiro. After this he became a journeyman and never played for the same team for more than one season at most. With the national team, Túlio was famous for scoring a controversial equalizer against Argentina in the quarter-finals of the 1995 Copa América in Uruguay. However, Túlio never played again for the Brazilian national team.
According to himself, he reached the mark of thousand goals in 2014, at 44 years old. This number was only reached, however, by counting goals in friendlies, commemorative games and amateur football.[2]
Honours
- Goiás
- Sion
- Botafogo
- Corinthians
- Cruzeiro
- Vila Nova
- São Caetano
- Újpest
- Brasiliense
- Jorge Wilstermann
- Volta Redonda
- Itauçuense
- Individual
Records
- Goiás all-time leading scorer with 187 goals.
- Vila Nova all-time leading scorer with 99 goals.
- Holds the record for most goals scored in a single Serie C, with 27 goals in 2007.
- Six time leading scorer of Campeonato Brasileiro, including Serie A, B and C.
- He is the only player to be a leading scorer in three different levels in Brazilian football system (Serie A, B and C).
- He was the Brazilian season scorer in 1995 (67 goals) and 2007 (50 goals).
Trivia
- Tulio played 15 games with Brazilian national football team and scored 21 goals. The Brazilian national football team never lost a match with Tulio on the pitch.
- His son, Tulio Humberto Pereira da Costa Filho, was born on the same day as his father.
- He scored a controversial goal against Universidad Católica in a Copa Libertadores match. Having already eliminated the goalkeeper from the play, Tulio stopped short of the goal line with the ball, turned around and flicked the ball up, tapping it in with a heel kick. He named the stylish goal "Tuleta" after his name.
- He is a fan of Mickey Mouse and Disney.
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