Manga (footballer, born 1937)

Haílton Corrêa de Arruda (April 26, 1937 – April 8, 2025), best known as Manga, was a Brazilian footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He has played for Brazil national team.
On 8 April 2025, Manga died at Rio Barra Hospital in Rio de Janeiro at the age of 87.

Club career
Manga began his career with Sport from his hometown of Recife in 1955, winning three state titles. In 1959 he moved to Botafogo. With this club he won the Torneio Rio-São Paulo three times and the national title in 1968, he also won four state titles. In 1969 he moved to the Uruguayan top club Nacional and played there for five years. Nacional had a period of glory and won four titles with Manga and in 1971 he won the Copa Libertadores against Estudiantes. The club was now also allowed to play in the intercontinental cup against Panathinaikos and here too the club came out on top. In 1974, he returned to Brazil, with Internacional, with whom he won the Campeonato Gaúcho three times and won the national championship twice. From 1977 to 1979 he won the state championship with a different club in a different state. He ended his career with the Ecuadorian Barcelona, with whom he also won the league title in 1981.

International career
He also played for the national team and in 1965 was preferred to two-time world champion and big star Gilmar. At the 1966 World Cup in England, however, Gilmar was preferred to Manga. After a defeat against Hungary, which Gilmar was blamed for, Manga was allowed to take over in the third game against Portugal, but the Brazilians also lost this game and were eliminated.


Club career statistics

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|1974||rowspan="3"|Internacional||rowspan="3"|Série A||2||0
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|1975||30||0
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|1976||20||0
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|1977||Operário||Série A||12||0
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|1978||Coritiba||Série A||24||0
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|1979||rowspan="2"|Grêmio||rowspan="2"|Série A||19||0
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|1980||0||0
107||0
107||0
|}

Honours
Below is a list of the main titles won by Manga, including 25 official tournaments:

Sport Recife
Campeonato Pernambucano: 1955, 1956, 1957

Botafogo
Campeonato Carioca: 1961, 1962, 1967, 1968
Taça dos Campeões Estaduais Rio-São Paulo: 1961
Torneio Rio-São Paulo: 1962, 1964, 1966
Tournoi de Paris: 1963
Taça Guanabara: 1967, 1968
: 1967

Nacional
Primera División Uruguaya: 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972
Copa Libertadores: 1971
Intercontinental Cup: 1971
Copa Interamericana: 1971

Internacional
Campeonato Gaúcho: 1974, 1975, 1976
Campeonato Brasileiro: 1975, 1976

Operário de Campo Grande
Campeonato Matogrossense: 1977

Coritiba
Campeonato Paranaense: 1978

Grêmio
Campeonato Gaúcho: 1979

Barcelona SC
Campeonato Ecuatoriano: 1981

Individual
Bola de Prata: 1976, 1978
Botafogo FR Team of 20th Century

References

Category:1937 births
Category:2025 deaths
Category:Brazilian association football goalkeepers
Category:Footballers from Recife