Célio Taveira
![]() Taveira with Vasco da Gama | |||
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Célio Taveira Filho | ||
Date of birth | 16 October 1940 | ||
Place of birth | Santos, Brazil | ||
Date of death | 29 May 2020 | (aged 79)||
Place of death | João Pessoa, Brazil | ||
Position(s) | Striker | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1958 | Portuguesa Santista | ||
1959 | Ponte Preta | ||
1960–1962 | Jabaquara | ||
1963–1966 | Vasco da Gama | ||
1967–1970 | Nacional | ||
1970–1971 | Corinthians | ||
1972 | Operário | ||
International career | |||
1965–1966 | Brazil | 3 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Célio Taveira Filho (16 October 1940 – 29 May 2020) was a Brazilian footballer who played as a striker.
Club career
[edit]Born in Santos, Taveira played for Portuguesa Santista, Ponte Preta, Jabaquara, Vasco da Gama, Nacional, Corinthians and Operário.[1] He scored 100 goals for Vasco, being the club's 16th top goalscorer.[2] For Nacional he scored 22 goals in the Copa Libertadores, being the 3rd highest Brazilian goalscorer in the competition.[2] He retired at the age of 32 after injuring his collarbone in a collision with Rivellino in training.[2]
International career
[edit]He earned 3 caps for the Brazil national team.[1] He was the last player to be cut from the Brazil squad for the 1966 FIFA World Cup.[2]
Later life and death
[edit]From the late 1970s he lived in João Pessoa, Paraíba, where he worked as a businessman (running a fruit export business) and radio sports commentator.[2]
He died in hospital in João Pessoa on 29 May 2020, aged 79, from COVID-19, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil.[2] At the time of his death Taveira had four children, eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.[2]
References
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- 1940 births
- 2020 deaths
- Brazilian men's footballers
- Associação Atlética Portuguesa (Santos) players
- Associação Atlética Ponte Preta players
- Jabaquara Atlético Clube players
- CR Vasco da Gama players
- Club Nacional de Football players
- Sport Club Corinthians Paulista players
- Operário Futebol Clube (MS) players
- Men's association football forwards
- Brazilian expatriate men's footballers
- Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Uruguay
- Expatriate men's footballers in Uruguay
- Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Paraíba
- Brazil men's international footballers
- Footballers from Santos, São Paulo
- Brazilian football biography stubs