Sócrates

**Sócrates** (19 February 1954 – 4 December 2011) was a Brazilian football player. He has played for the Brazil national team. He died in hospital of septic shock.

### Club

|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="3"|League|colspan="2"|Cup|colspan="2"|Other|colspan="2"|Continental|colspan="2"|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="7"|Botafogo-SP|1973|—|–|–|3|0|–|3|0||||
|1974|—|–|–|24|4|–|24|4||||||
|1975|—|–|–|15|7|–|15|7||||||
|1976|rowspan="3"|Série A|19|5|–|25|14|–|44|19||||
|1977|16|9|–|42|18|–|58|27||||||
|1978|22|10|–|0|0|–|22|10||||||
|rowspan="8"|Corinthians|1978|Série A|0|0|–|47|23|–|47|23|||
|1979|—|–|–|29|10|–|29|10||||||
|1980|rowspan="5"|Série A|16|13|–|29|15|–|45|28||||
|1981|1|1|–|36|22|–|37|23||||||
|1982|9|5|–|37|18|–|46|23||||||
|1983|20|15|–|32|21|–|52|36||||||
|1984|13|7|–|0|0|–|13|7||||||
|Fiorentina|1984–85|Serie A|25|6|4|1|–|4|2|33|9|||
|rowspan="3"|Flamengo|1986|rowspan="2"|Série A|11|3|–|1|0|–|12|3||
|1987|0|0|–|1|0|–|1|0||||||
|rowspan="3"|Santos|1988|rowspan="2"|Série A|5|2|–|0|0|–|5|2||
|1989|0|0|–|20|5|–|20|5||||||
|Botafogo-SP|1989|Série B|6|0|–|0|0|–|6|0||||
|Garforth Town|2004–05|NCEFL|1|0|0|0|0|0|–|1|0|||

### International

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="8"|Brazil|1979|6|5|
|1980|8|2|||
|1981|15|6|||
|1982|9|4|||
|1983|8|2|||
|1984|0|0|||
|1985|5|1|||
|1986|9|2|||

## Honours

**Botafogo-SP**
- Torneio Vicente Feola: 1976

**Corinthians**
- Campeonato Paulista: 1979, 1982, 1983

**Flamengo**
- Taça Rio: 1986
- Campeonato Carioca: 1986

**Brazil**
- Copa América: Runner-up 1983; Third-place 1979

**Individual**
- Brazilian Football Museum Hall of Fame
- FIFA 100
- _World Soccer_: 61st Greatest Player of the 20th Century
- Campeonato Paulista top scorer: 1976
- Bola de Prata: 1980
- FIFA XI: 1982
- South American Footballer of the Year: 1983
- FAI International Football Awards – International Personality: 2007
- _World Soccer_: World Team of the Year 1982

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Sócrates
- **image**: Socrates87660.jpg
- **upright**: 0.9
- **caption**: Sócrates in 2005
- **fullname**: Sócrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Souza Vieira e Oliveira
- **birth place**: Belém, Pará, Brazil
- **death place**: São Paulo, Brazil
- **height**: 1.92 m
- **position**: Midfielder
- **years1**: 1973–1978
- **clubs1**: Botafogo Futebol Clube (SP), Botafogo-SP
- **caps1**: 99
- **goals1**: 35
- **years2**: 1978–1984
- **clubs2**: Sport Club Corinthians Paulista, Corinthians
- **caps2**: 135
- **goals2**: 74
- **years3**: 1984–1985
- **clubs3**: ACF Fiorentina, Fiorentina
- **caps3**: 25
- **goals3**: 6
- **years4**: 1986–1987
- **clubs4**: Clube de Regatas do Flamengo, Flamengo
- **caps4**: 12
- **goals4**: 3
- **years5**: 1988–1989
- **clubs5**: Santos FC, Santos
- **caps5**: 25
- **goals5**: 7
- **years6**: 1989
- **clubs6**: Botafogo Futebol Clube (SP), Botafogo-SP
- **caps6**: 6
- **goals6**: 0
- **years7**: 2004
- **clubs7**: Garforth Town A.F.C., Garforth Town
- **caps7**: 1
- **goals7**: 0
- **totalcaps**: 303
- **totalgoals**: 172
- **nationalyears1**: 1979–1986
- **nationalteam1**: Brazil national football team, Brazil
- **nationalcaps1**: 60
- **nationalgoals1**: 22
- **manageryears1**: 1994
- **managerclubs1**: Botafogo Futebol Clube (SP), Botafogo-SP
- **manageryears2**: 1996
- **managerclubs2**: Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito, LDU Quito
- **manageryears3**: 1999
- **managerclubs3**: Associação Desportiva Cabofriense, Cabofriense