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Key facts
- Full name
- José Ely de Miranda
- Date of birth
- 8 August 1932
- Place of birth
- Roseira , São Paulo , Brazil
- Date of death
- 14 June 2015 (aged 82)
- Place of death
- Santos, São Paulo , Brazil
- Position
- Midfielder
- 1948 1950
- Roseira
- Years
- Team
- 1950 1952
- Taubaté
- 1952 1967
- Santos
- 1955 1966
- Brazil
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Team
- Mallorca
- Position
- Centre-Forward
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Miranda
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Brazil
- Place of birth
- Roseira
- Place of death
- Santos
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- Portuguese
- Participant in
- 1966 FIFA World Cup
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Brazil men's national football team
- Position played
- midfielder
- Country for sport
- Brazil
- Mass
- 69
- Image
- Zito en 1962.jpg
- Height
- 179
Show 10 more facts
- date of birth
- 1932-08-08
- date of death
- 2015-06-14
- Commons category
- José Ely de Miranda, Zito
- cause of death
- stroke
- end of work period
- 1967-00-00
- start of work period
- 1948-00-00
- number of matches played/races/starts
- 3
- total goals in career
- 0
- name in native language
- Zito
- manner of death
- natural causes
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
* Club domestic league appearances and goals
José Ely de Miranda (8 August 1932 – 14 June 2015), commonly known as Zito, was a Brazilian footballer who played as a midfielder. He is regarded as one of the biggest idols of Santos FC, the club he represented for 15 years, captaining a side including Pelé to domestic and international successes. He was also part of the Brazilian squads which won the World Cup in 1958 and 1962.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Zito” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.