Former soccer player Mario Lobo Jorge Zagallo remains hospitalized in the semi-intensive unit of the Barra d’Or hospital, in Rio de Janeiro, for treatment of a respiratory infection. According to a bulletin released by the medical team this Friday (29), Zagallo has “good clinical evolution”.
The four-time world champion, who served as coach and coordinator of the Brazilian football team, turns 91 on the 9th.
According to the hospital’s report, Zagallo “is lucid and breathing spontaneously without supplemental oxygen.”
About the former player
Even before dreaming of wearing hopscotch, Zagallo was hooked by the national team when he witnessed the defeat to Uruguay, at Maracanã, in the 1950 World Cup. At the time, aged 19, Zagallo was a soldier in the Army Police and was recruited to work on security in the stands of the stadium.
His performance at Flamengo, the first major club in which Zagallo played as a left winger, was decisive for him to be called up to the team that won the country’s second world title, in the Swedish Cup (1958). The “Old Wolf”, as he is known, also lifted the Jules Rimet cup in 1962 (Chile).
Then, as Brazil’s coach, he won the Mexico Cup (1970) and, in 1994, as the national team’s technical coordinator, he was fourth at the World Cup in the United States.
*With information from Agência Brasil
Source: CNN Brasil
