Zico (footballer)

**Arthur Antunes Coimbra** (, born 3 March 1953), better known as **Zico** (), is a Brazilian football coach and former player. He played as an attacking midfielder. Zico is often called the "White Pelé". He was a very good playmaker. Zico had very good technical skills. He is regarded to be one of the most clinical finishers and best passers ever. He is considered to be one of the greatest players of all time. Zico is also widely known as the greatest Brazilian footballer to never win the World Cup. He was recognised as one of the world's best players of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Zico is recognized as one of the best playmakers and free kick specialists. He was able to bend the ball in all directions. Zico scored the most goals from direct free kicks, with 101 goals.

#### Club

- <small>This information is based on Zico's senior career totals.</small>

|rowspan="2" valign="bottom" width="10%"|Club|rowspan="2" valign="bottom" width="7%"|Season|rowspan="2" valign="bottom" width="7%"|League|colspan="2" width="10%"|League|colspan="2" width="13%"|Regional League|colspan="2" width="10%"|Cup<sup>1</sup>|colspan="2" width="10%"|Continental<sup>2</sup>|colspan="2" width="10%"|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="14" align="center" valign="center"|Flamengo|1971|rowspan="13"|Série A|15|2|2|0|colspan="4"|–|17|2||||
|1972|4|0|2|0|colspan="4"|–|6|0||||||||
|1973|26|8|9|0|colspan="4"|–|35|8||||||||
|1974|19|11|31|19|colspan="4"|–|50|30||||||||
|1975|27|10|28|30|colspan="4"|–|55|40||||||||
|1976|20|14|27|18|colspan="4"|–|47|32||||||||
|1977|18|10|29|27|colspan="4"|–|47|37||||||||
|1978|0|0|22|19|colspan="4"|–|22|19||||||||
|1979|8|5|<small>(17 + 26<sup>3</sup>)</small> 43|<small>(26 + 34<sup>3</sup>)</small> 60|colspan="4"|–|51|65||||||||
|1980|19|21|26|12|colspan="4"|–|45|33||||||||
|1981|8|3|33|25|colspan="2"|–|13|11|55<sup>4</sup>|39||||||
|1982|23|20|21|21|colspan="2"|–|4|2|48|43||||||
|1983|25|19|colspan="4"|–|4|3|29|22||||||||
|rowspan="3" align="center" valign="center"|Udinese|1983–84|rowspan="2"|Serie A|24|19|colspan="2"|–|9|5|colspan="2"|–|33|24||
|1984–85|15|3|colspan="2"|–|5|3|colspan="2"|–|20|6||||||
|rowspan="6" align="center" valign="center"|Flamengo|1985|rowspan="5"|Série A|3|1|3|2|colspan="4"|–|6|3||||
|1986|0|0|4|3|colspan="4"|–|4|3||||||||
|1987|12|5|5|1|colspan="4"|–|17|6||||||||
|1988|14|4|6|0|colspan="4"|–|20|4||||||||
|1989|8|2|11|2|7|3|1|0|27|7||||||
|align="center" valign="center"|Sumitomo Metals|1991–92|rowspan="1"|JSL2|22|21|colspan="2"|–|2|1|colspan="2"|–|24|22||
|rowspan="5" align="center" valign="center"|Kashima Antlers|||||||||||||||
|1992|rowspan="3"|J.League|colspan="4"|–|12|7|colspan="2"|–|12|7||||||
|1993|16|9|colspan="2"|–|7|3|colspan="2"|–|23|12||||||
|1994|7|5|colspan="6"|–|7|5||||||||||
<sup>1</sup><small>Include Copa do Brasil, Coppa Italia, JSL Cup, J.League Cup, and Emperor's Cup</small>
<sup>2</sup><small>Include Copa Libertadores and Supercopa Sudamericana</small>
<sup>3</sup><small>Campeonato Carioca extra tournament</small>
<sup>4</sup><small>Include Intercontinental Cup</small>

#### International

|colspan="3"|Brazil (official matches)||
| --- | --- | --- |
|1976|9|6|
|1977|7|6|
|1978|11|3|
|1979|5|5|
|1980|5|4|
|1981|12|10|
|1982|11|8|
|1983|1|0|
|1984|0|0|
|1985|5|3|
|1986|5|3|

### Managerial statistics

|rowspan="2"|Team|rowspan="2"|From|rowspan="2"|To|colspan="5"|Record|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align="left"|Kashima Antlers|align="left"|1999|align="left"|1999|||
|align="left"|CFZ|align="left"|2002|align="left"|2002|||
|align="left"|Japan|align="left"|2002|align="left"|2006|||
|align="left"|Fenerbahçe|align="left"|2006|align="left"|2008|||
|align="left"|Bunyodkor|align="left"|2008|align="left"|2008|||
|align="left"|CSKA Moscow|align="left"|2009|align="left"|2009|||
|align="left"|Olympiacos|align="left"|2009|align="left"|2010|||
|align="left"|Iraq|align="left"|2011|align="left"|2012|||
|align="left"|Al-Gharafa|align="left"|2013|align="left"|2014|||
|align="left"|FC Goa|align="left"|2014|align="left"|2016|||

#### Club

- **Flamengo**

- Campeonato Carioca: 1972, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1979 (extra), 1981, 1986
- Campeonato Brasileiro Série A: 1980, 1982, 1983
- Copa União: 1987
- Copa Libertadores: 1981
- Intercontinental Cup: 1981

- **Kashima Antlers**

- J.League Suntory Series: 1993

#### International

- **Brazil**

- FIFA World Cup Third place: 1978
- Copa América Third place: 1979

- **Brazil (Beach soccer)**

- Beach Soccer World Championship: 1995, 1996
- American Cup Beach Soccer: 1995, 1996

#### Individual

- Bola de Ouro: 1974, 1982
- Bola de Prata: 1974, 1975, 1977, 1982, 1987
- Campeonato Carioca top scorer: 1975 (30 goals), 1977 (27 goals), 1978 (19 goals), 1979 (26 goals), 1982 (21 goals)
- South American Footballer of the Year: 1977, 1981, 1982
- South American Footballer of the Year Silver Ball: 1976, 1980
- Brazilian season top scorer: 1976 (63 goals). 1977 (48 goals). 1979 (81 goals), 1980 (53 goals), 1982 (59 goals)
- FIFA XI: 1979, 1982
- Campeonato Brasileiro Série A top scorer: 1980 (21 goals), 1982 (21 goals)
- Copa Libertadores Best Player: 1981
- Copa Libertadores top scorer: 1981
- Intercontinental Cup MVP Award: 1981
- FIFA World Cup Bronze Boot: 1982
- FIFA World Cup All-Star Team: 1982
- World Soccer Player of the Year: 1983
- Chevron Award: 1984
- Serie A Player of the Year: 1984
- Beach Soccer World Championship Top Scorer: 1995 (12 goals)
- Beach Soccer World Championship Best Player: 1995
- FIFA Order of Merit: 1996
- FIFA 100: 2004
- Golden Foot Legends Award: 2006
- Brazilian Football Museum Hall of Fame: 2010
- IFFHS 3rd Best Brazilian Player of the 20th century
- IFFHS 7th Best South American Player of the 20th century
- IFFHS 14th Best Player of the 20th century
- FIFA 7th Best Player of the 20th century (FIFA Magazine and Grand Jury vote)
- France Football 9th Best Player of the 20th century
- World Soccer Magazine 18th Greatest Player of the 20th century
- _Placar_ 16th Best Player of the 20th century
- IFFHS Legends

#### Records

- Top scorer in Flamengo's history – 508 goals
- Top scorer in Maracanã Stadium – 333 goals
- Japan Soccer League record for goals scored in straight matches – 11 goals in 10 matches (1992)
- Flamengo record holder – Top scorer in a single season – 81 goals (1979)

#### Club

- **Fenerbahçe**

- Süper Lig: 2006–07
- Turkish Super Cup: 2007

- **Bunyodkor**

- Uzbekistani Cup: 2008
- Uzbek League: 2008

- **CSKA Moscow**

- Russian Super Cup: 2009
- Russian Cup: 2008–09

- **Olympiacos**

- Super League Greece runners-up: 2009–10

- **FC Goa**

- Indian Super League runners-up: 2015

#### International

- **Japan**

- Asian Cup: 2004

## Statistics

|Year|Apps|Goals|
| --- | --- | --- |
|1976|9|6|
|1977|7|6|
|1978|11|3|
|1979|5|5|
|1980|5|4|
|1981|12|10|
|1982|11|8|
|1983|1|0|
|1984|0|0|
|1985|5|3|
|1986|5|3|

|scope="col"|Competition|scope="col"|Goals|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Friendlies|30|||
|FIFA World Cup qualification|11|||
|FIFA World Cup tournaments|5|||
|Copa América tournaments|2|||

### International goals

- _Scores and results; list Brazil's goal tally first._

|Goal|Date|Venue|Opponent|Score|Result|Competition|||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1.|25 February 1976|Estadio Centenario, Montevideo, Uruguay||align="center"|**1**–0|align="center"|2–1|rowspan="6"|Friendly||||
|2.|27 February 1976|Estadio Antonio V. Liberti, Buenos Aires, Argentina||align="center"|**2**–0|align="center"|2–1||||||
|3.|28 April 1976|Estádio do Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil||align="center"|**2**–1|align="center"|2–1||||||
|4.|31 May 1976|Yale Bowl, New Haven, United States||align="center"|**3**–1|align="center"|4–1||||||
|5.|9 June 1976|rowspan="4"|Estádio do Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil||align="center"|**1**–0|align="center"|3–1|||||
|6.|1 December 1976||align="center"|**1**–0|align="center"|2–0|||||||
|7.|9 March 1977||align="center"|**2**–0|align="center"|6–0|1978 FIFA World Cup qualifier||||||
|8.|23 June 1977||align="center"|**1**–0|align="center"|2–0|Friendly||||||
|9.|rowspan="4"|14 July 1977|rowspan="4"|Estadio Pascual Guerrero, Cali, Colombia|rowspan="4"||align="center"|**1**–0|rowspan="4" align="center"|8–0|rowspan="4"|1978 FIFA World Cup qualifier|
|10.|align="center"|**2**–0|||||||||||
|11.|align="center"|**4**–0|||||||||||
|12.|align="center"|**6**–0|||||||||||
|13.|1 May 1978|rowspan="2"|Estádio do Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil||align="center"|**1**–0|align="center"|3–0|rowspan="2"|Friendly|||
|14.|17 May 1978||align="center"|**1**–0|align="center"|3–0|||||||
|15.|14 June 1978|Estadio Malvinas Argentinas, Mendoza, Argentina||align="center"|**3**–0|align="center"|3–0|1978 FIFA World Cup|||||
|16.|17 May 1979|rowspan="4"|Estádio do Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil|rowspan="3"||align="center"|**3**–0|align="center"|6–0|rowspan="3"|Friendly||
|17.|17 May 1979|align="center"|**4**–0|align="center"|6–0||||||||
|18.|17 May 1979|align="center"|**5**–0|align="center"|6–0||||||||
|19.|2 August 1979||align="center"|**1**–0|align="center"|2–1|rowspan="2"|1979 Copa América|||||
|20.|16 September 1979|Estádio do Morumbi, São Paulo, Brazil||align="center"|**2**–0|align="center"|2–0||||||
|21.|24 June 1980|Estádio Mineirão, Belo Horizonte, Brazil||align="center"|**1**–0|align="center"|2–1|rowspan="4"|Friendly||||
|22.|29 June 1980|Estádio do Morumbi, São Paulo, Brazil||align="center"|**1**–1|align="center"|1–1||||||
|23.|rowspan="2"|30 October 1980|rowspan="2"|Estádio Serra Dourada, Goiânia, Brazil|rowspan="2"||align="center"|**1**–0|rowspan="2" align="center"|6–0|||
|24.|align="center"|**2**–0|||||||||||
|25.|8 February 1981|Estadio Olímpico, Caracas, Venezuela||align="center"|**1**–0|align="center"|6–0|1982 FIFA World Cup qualifier|||||
|26.|14 February 1981|Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa, Quito, Ecuador||align="center"|**1**–0|align="center"|6–0|rowspan="2"|Friendly||||
|27.|14 March 1981|Estádio Santa Cruz, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil||align="center"|**1**–0|align="center"|2–1||||||
|28.|rowspan="3"|22 March 1981|rowspan="3"|Estádio do Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil|rowspan="3"||align="center"|**1**–0|align="center"|3–1|rowspan="4"|1982 FIFA World Cup qualifier|
|29.|align="center"|**2**–0|align="center"|3–1|||||||||
|30.|align="center"|**3**–1|align="center"|3–1|||||||||
|31.|29 March 1981|Estádio Serra Dourada, Goiânia, Brazil||align="center"|**4**–0|align="center"|5–0||||||
|32.|12 May 1981|Wembley Stadium, London, England||align="center"|**1**–0|align="center"|1–0|rowspan="7"|Friendly||||
|33.|15 May 1981|Parc des Princes, Paris, France||align="center"|**1**–0|align="center"|3–1||||||
|34.|28 October 1981|Estádio Olímpico, Porto Alegre, Brazil||align="center"|**2**–0|align="center"|3–0||||||
|35.|3 March 1982|Estádio do Morumbi, São Paulo, Brazil||align="center"|**1**–0|align="center"|1–1||||||
|36.|5 May 1982|Castelão, São Luís, Brazil||align="center"|**3**–0|align="center"|3–1||||||
|37.|19 May 1982|Estádio do Arruda, Recife, Brazil||align="center"|**1**–0|align="center"|1–1||||||
|38.|27 May 1982|Parque do Sabiá, Uberlândia, Brazil||align="center"|**7**–0|align="center"|7–0||||||
|39.|18 June 1982|rowspan="3"|Estadio Benito Villamarín, Seville, Spain||align="center"|**1**–1|align="center"|4–1|rowspan="4"|1982 FIFA World Cup|||
|40.|rowspan="2"|23 June 1982|rowspan="2"||align="center"|**1**–1|rowspan="2" align="center"|4–1|||||
|41.|align="center"|**2**–0|||||||||||
|42.|2 July 1982|Estadi de Sarrià, Barcelona, Spain||align="center"|**1**–0|align="center"|3–1||||||
|43.|rowspan="2"|8 June 1985|rowspan="2"|Estádio Beira-Rio, Porto Alegre, Brazil|rowspan="2"||align="center"|**1**–0|rowspan="2" align="center"|3–1|rowspan="2"|Friendly|
|44.|align="center"|**2**–0|||||||||||
|45.|16 June 1985|Estadio Defensores del Chaco, Asunción, Paraguay||align="center"|**2**–0|align="center"|2–0|1986 FIFA World Cup qualifier|||||
|46.|rowspan="3"|30 April 1986|rowspan="3"|Estádio do Arruda, Recife, Brazil|rowspan="3"||align="center"|**1**–0|rowspan="3" align="center"|4–2|rowspan="3"|Friendly|
|47.|align="center"|**2**–2|||||||||||
|48.|align="center"|**3**–2|||||||||||

## Other websites

- Zico na rede: The Movie  – Documentary
- Japan Football Hall of Fame at Japan Football Association

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Zico
- **manageryears8**: 2011–2012
- **nationalgoals1**: 48
- **manageryears1**: 1999
- **manageryears2**: 2000–2002
- **manageryears3**: 2002–2006
- **manageryears4**: 2006–2008
- **manageryears5**: 2008
- **manageryears6**: 2009
- **manageryears7**: 2009–2010
- **manageryears9**: 2013–2014
- **nationalteam1**: Brazil national football team, Brazil
- **manageryears10**: 2014–2016
- **manageryears11**: 2018–
- **managerclubs1**: Kashima Antlers
- **managerclubs2**: Centro de Futebol Zico Sociedade Esportiva, CFZ
- **managerclubs3**: Japan national football team, Japan
- **managerclubs4**: Fenerbahçe S.K. (football team), Fenerbahçe
- **managerclubs5**: FC Bunyodkor, Bunyodkor
- **managerclubs6**: PFC CSKA Moscow, CSKA Moscow
- **managerclubs7**: Olympiacos F.C., Olympiacos
- **managerclubs8**: Iraq national football team, Iraq
- **managerclubs9**: Al-Gharafa SC, Al-Gharafa
- **managerclubs10**: FC Goa
- **managerclubs11**: Kashima Antlers (technical director)
- **nationalcaps1**: 71
- **nationalyears1**: 1976–1986
- **image**: Zico 2012 3.jpg
- **years3**: 1985–1989
- **caption**: During his team's 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Oman
- **fullname**: Arthur Antunes Coimbra
- **birth place**: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- **height**: 1.72 m
- **position**: Attacking midfielder
- **currentclub**: Kashima Antlers (technical director)
- **youthyears1**: 1967–1971
- **youthclubs1**: Clube de Regatas Flamengo, Flamengo
- **years1**: 1971–1983
- **years2**: 1983–1985
- **years4**: 1991–1994
- **totalgoals**: 192
- **clubs1**: Clube de Regatas Flamengo, Flamengo
- **clubs2**: Udinese
- **clubs3**: Clube de Regatas Flamengo, Flamengo
- **clubs4**: Kashima Antlers
- **caps1**: 212
- **goals1**: 123
- **caps2**: 39
- **goals2**: 22
- **caps3**: 37
- **goals3**: 12
- **caps4**: 45
- **goals4**: 35
- **totalcaps**: 333
- **medaltemplates**: <small>(as player)</small>

<small>(as manager)</small>