Orlando Peçanha

Orlando Pecanha de Carvalho (20 September, 1935 - 10 February, 2010) is a former Brazilian football player. He has played for Brazil national team. With the Brazilian national team he became world champion in 1958. At club level, he has played in Brazil with CR Vasco da Gama and FC Santos and in Argentina with Boca Juniors great achievements. With his powerful style of play and ability to read the game, he is regarded as one of the best defenders in Brazilian football history.
Club career
Orlando started his professional career in 1953 with the Vasco da Gama club where he played until 1961, winning 2 Rio championships and the Rio Sao Paulo tournament. In February 1961, he made his debut with Boca Juniors, in which he played 119 matches (105 in the league and 14 in the Copa Libertadores ), but did not score a single goal. With Boca, the team that he took to the field with the captain's armband, he won 3 Argentine championships. In 1965, Orlando returned to Brazil and began playing for Santos. With Santos, Orlando won 4 Paulista championships, Rio Sao Paulo tournament, Copa Brazil, Roberto Gomez Pedrosa and Recopa Sudamericana Tournament Orlando ended his career in 1970, playing for his first club, Vasco da Gama, for three months.
International career
In May 1958, Orlando Pecanha also made his national team debut. In Sao Paulo, the Selecao won 3-1 against Bulgaria. A month later he was taken on a trip to Sweden for the 1958 FIFA World Cup. There Orlando Pecanha, together with Bellini, formed the defensive backbone of the Selecao, who impressed the world with the brilliant attacking players Garrincha, Didi, Vava, Zagallo and the 17-year-old Pele and brought the title to Brazil for the first time with a brilliant 5-2 final victory over Sweden. In 1959 he took part in the Copa America in Argentina with Brazil. When the score was 0-1, he was dismissed from the field in the game against Uruguay along with another Brazilian and two Uruguayans. Brazil ended up winning 3-1. Overall, it was only enough for second place behind the hosts. In 1960 he won the Taca do Atlantico with the Selecao, in which the national teams of Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay also took part that year. He was not considered for the 1962 FIFA World Cup in Chile because he played abroad. 1966 FIFA World Cup, Orlando Pecanha was again in Brazil's squad. But he was only used once. Deputizing for Bellini, he was captain of the Brazilian team that lost the decisive group game against Portugal with players like Eusebio and Mario Coluna 3-1 and thus had to say goodbye to the tournament. With his only defeat in the national jersey, his international career ended at this point. In total he made 31 appearances for Brazil.
Club career statistics
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|1961||rowspan="5"|Boca Juniors||rowspan="5"|Primera Division||26||0
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|1962||28||0
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|1963||20||0
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|1964||30||0
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|1965||1||0
105||0
105||0
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International career statistics
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!Total||31||0
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Honours
Club
Vasco da Gama
Copa Internacional Rivadavia: 1953
Campeonato Carioca: 1956, 1958
Torneio Internacional de Paris: 1957
Torneio Internacional do Chile: 1957
Boca Juniors
Campeonato Argentino: 1962, 1964
Santos
Campeonato Paulista: 1965, 1967
Taca Brasil de Futebol: 1965
International
Brazil
FIFA World Cup: 1958
Taca Oswaldo Cruz: 1958, 1961, 1962
South American Championship: 1959
Taca Bernardo O'Higgins: 1959
Taca do Atlantico: 1960
Roca Cup: 1960, 1963
Individual
FIFA World Cup All-Star Team: 1958
World Soccer World XI: 1965
References
1935 births
Brazilian footballers