Oscar Bernardi

Oscar

Personal information
Full name	José Oscar Bernardi
Date of birth	(1954-06-20) June 20, 1954
Place of birth	Monte Siao, Brazil
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position	Defender
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1972–1979	Ponte Preta	34	(13)
1979–1980	New York Cosmos	3	(0)
1980–1987	São Paulo	294	(6)
1987–1989	Nissan Motors
National team
1978–1986	Brazil	60	(2)
Teams managed
1989–1991	Nissan Motors
1992	AA Internacional
1992	Guarani
1993–1995	Al-Hilal
1995–1996	Kyoto Purple Sanga
1997	Al-Hilal
1997	Cruzeiro
1998	Al-Shabab
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

José Oscar Bernardi (born June 20, 1954), nicknamed Oscar, is a noted association footballer, having been on the Brazil national football team and a member of São Paulo Futebol Clube and Associação Atlética Ponte Preta, and having played in defence at the Football World Cup in 1978, 1982, and as a reserve in 1986. He was capped sixty times for Brazil between April 1978 and May 1986.

Oscar also played for Japanese team Nissan FC between 1987 and 1989. After his professional retirement, he coached several football clubs in Japan and Brazil. He now runs an athletic training center in Monte Sião, Minas Gerais. Oscar Bernardi founded a football club, named Brasilis Futebol Clube, in 2007.

Statistics

Club performance			League
Season	Club	League	Apps	Goals
Brazil			League
1972	Ponte Preta		0	0
1973			0	0
1974			0	0
1975			0	0
1976		Série A	12	0
1977			16	1
1978			6	0
1979			0	0
United States			League
1980	New York Cosmos	NASL	3	0
Brazil			League
1980	São Paulo	Série A	0	0
1981			10	0
1982			16	0
1983			11	0
1984			12	2
1985			19	3
1986			9	1
1987			0	0
Country	Brazil		111	7
	United States		3	0
Total			114	7

Brazil national team
Year	Apps	Goals
1978	11	0
1979	1	0
1980	4	0
1981	13	0
1982	11	1
1983	0	0
1984	2	0
1985	11	0
1986	6	1
Total	59	2

Awards

• Brazil League Silver Ball: 1977
• Japanese Footballer of the Year: 1988
• Japan Soccer League Best Eleven: 1987-88, 1988-89

External links

• Oscar Bernardi Soccer Management
• New York Cosmos stats