Cláudio André Mergen Taffarel (; born 8 May 1966) is a Brazilian retired
footballer
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who played as a
goalkeeper
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, and is the goalkeeping coach of English
Premier League
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club
Liverpool
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and the
Brazil national team. During an 18-year career he played professionally for five different clubs in both Brazil and Europe. He began his senior career in 1985 with Brazilian side
Internacional
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, whereas his latter clubs were
Parma
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,
Reggiana,
Atlético Mineiro
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*Athletico SC (Lebanon), a Lebanese football academy
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, and
Galatasaray
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; he ended his career in 2003, after a second spell with Italian team Parma.
The recipient of more than 100
caps
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for
Brazil
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, Taffarel helped the national team win the
1994 World Cup
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, also appearing in eight other major international tournaments over the course of one full decade, most notably helping Brazil to a second place in the
1998 World Cup, and two
Copa América
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titles in
1989 and
1997
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; he also won a silver medal at the
1988 Summer Olympic Games.
Club career
Born in
Santa Rosa, Rio Grande do Sul
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from
Italian Brazilians
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ancestry, Taffarel began his career playing for
Internacional
Sport Club Internacional (), commonly known as Internacional or simply Inter, is a Brazilian professional football club based in Porto Alegre. They play in the Série A, the first division of the Brazilian league, as well as in Campeonat ...
but only appeared in 14
Série A games during his five-year spell, being however awarded the
Golden Ball award for the
1988 season. In 1990, he moved abroad and joined
Parma
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in Italy, a club which had been
freshly promoted to
Serie A
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for the first time in its history; according to a 2003 article by Andrea Schianchi of ''
La Gazzetta dello Sport
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History and profile
''La ...
'', Taffarel's move to Parma was also carried out for commercial reasons, as at the time,
Calisto Tanzi
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, the then–owner of
Parmalat
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Having become the leading global company in the production of long-life milk using ultra-h ...
– the company that owned the club –, was looking to have the Brazilian goalkeeper become the face of the corporation's new advertising campaign following its recent expansion into Brazil. Taffarel became the first non–Italian goalkeeper to play in Serie A, and proceeded to appear in all 34 league games in
the following campaign under manager
Nevio Scala
Nevio Scala (; born 22 November 1947) is an Italian football sporting director, coach and former player.
Throughout his footballing career, he played as a midfielder for several Italian clubs, and won several titles during his time with A.C. Mil ...
, as the
Emilia-Romagna
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, population_note =
, population_blank1_title ...
side finished in sixth position and
qualified to the
UEFA Cup
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. He won the
Coppa Italia
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History
The beginning of the tournament was turbulent, due to the complexity of ...
in
1992
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and the
Cup Winners' Cup
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in
1993
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during his first spell with the club, although following a series of unconvincing performances, and the regulations at the time that only allowed three non–Italian players in the team's starting XI (with
Faustino Asprilla
Faustino Hernán Asprilla Hinestroza (born 10 November 1969) is a Colombian former professional footballer who most notably played for Parma, Newcastle United and the Colombia national team as a forward.
Club career Early years
After starting ...
,
Tomas Brolin
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At club level, he had a successful period with A.C. Parma during the early 1990s, winning the 1992 Coppa Italia, ...
, and
Georges Grün
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Club career
Grün started his career with Anderlecht in Belgiu ...
usually being selected to start by Scala), he was relegated to the bench over the course of the next two seasons, initially behind
Marco Ballotta
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His professional career spanned a quarter of a century, but he was never capped for the Italy national team. He also held the distincti ...
and later
Luca Bucci.
In 1993, Taffarel, now only a back-up at Parma, signed for fellow Serie A team
Reggiana, where he was first-choice throughout the following season in a
narrow escape from relegation. However, he was subsequently dropped from the first team in 1994, and remained without a professional club in the run up to and following that year's World Cup in the United States, playing instead at amateur level with his local church team, and even featuring as a
centre-forward
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on occasion. Afterwards, he returned to his home country in 1995 and played three years with
Atlético Mineiro
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.
On 24 June 1998, when still appearing for ''Seleçao'' at
1998 FIFA World Cup
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tournament in France, Taffarel signed a two-year deal with
Galatasaray
Galatasaray Spor Kulübü (, ''Galatasaray Sports Club'') is a Turkish sports club based on the European side of the city of Istanbul in Turkey. Most notable for its association football department, the club also consists of various other de ...
at
Disneyland Paris
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. Galatasaray paid a transfer fee of around $1.5 million to his former club
Atlético Mineiro
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. At Galatasaray, he has won six major trophies during his three-year stint, most notably two
Süper Lig
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titles and the
1999–2000 UEFA Cup
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and
2000 UEFA Super Cup; in the
final
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of the latter competition – a 4–1
penalty shootout
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victory over
Arsenal
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following a 0–0 draw after 120 minutes – he was chosen as
Man of the match
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. He closed out his career with former club Parma, joining the team in 2001;
he mainly featured as a second-choice keeper behind
Sébastien Frey
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during his second spell with the club,
but started in both legs of the
2002 Coppa Italia Final, which saw Parma triumph over the newly crowned
Serie A champions,
Juventus
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. He retired in 2003, after one-and-a-half seasons with the club, at the age of 37, and after having refused an offer from
Empoli
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: his car broke while he was going to sign the contract, which he later described as a "sign of God".
International career
Taffarel made his debut for
Brazil
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on 7 July 1988 in the
Australia Bicentenary Gold Cup
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, playing all four games and conceding two goals as his team won the tournament. He was also in goal for
the following year's Copa América, which Brazil also won (during his ten-year international career, he appeared in five editions of the latter tournament, winning the title for a second time in
1997
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, and collecting runners-up medals in
1991
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and
1995
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). At the
1988 Summer Olympics
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in Seoul, he won a silver medal, saving three penalties against
West Germany
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in the semi-finals of the tournament: one in regulation time, and two in
Brazil
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's successful shoot-out.
He was also a member of the Brazilian team that took part at the
1990 FIFA World Cup
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in Italy, where Brazil were eliminated in the round of 16 following a 1–0 defeat to
rivals
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and defending champions
Argentina
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, with Taffarel conceding only two goals in total throughout the tournament.
Taffarel was the starter for the nation during the
1994 FIFA World Cup
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in the United States, only allowing one goal in the first round and two in the knock-out phases, excluding two
penalty kicks in
the final
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shootout victory against
Italy
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.
Four years later, in France, he helped his national team to a second consecutive
World Cup final, which proved to be his final international appearance; on this occasion, however, Brazil lost out 3–0 to the
hosts
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. In the run-up to the final, Taffarel had notably saved two penalties in the team's 4–2 shootout victory over the
Netherlands
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in the semi-finals.
He was also a member of the Brazilian side that finished in third place at the
1998 CONCACAF Gold Cup
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The tournament was once again held in the United States, in Los Angeles, Miami, and O ...
.
In total, Taffarel played 101 times with the ''Seleção'', making him Brazil's most capped goalkeeper of all time, and one of the few Brazilian players to have made at least 100 caps for the national side.
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at RSSSF
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Upon his retirement in 2003, coach
Carlos Alberto Parreira
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offered to arrange a farewell match but the player refused, stating that he was not interested in such fanfare; he did return to play alongside
Romário
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in late 2004 against
Mexico
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, to commemorate the 1994 World Cup victory at the
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
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.
Style of play
Regarded as one of the greatest Brazilian goalkeepers of all time, Taffarel was known to be a rational, effective, and generally consistent keeper, with good fundamental goalkeeping technique, who favoured an efficient rather than spectacular playing style.
His main attributes were his explosive reflexes, positional sense, and calm composure in goal, as well as his penalty-stopping abilities; due to the muscle power in his legs that he developed while playing
beach volleyball
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in his youth, he was known for his surprising spring and elevation from a standstill position, despite his modest stature, which gave him significant hang time and aided him in stopping penalties.
Furthermore, he was known to be
quick when coming off his line, and was also highly regarded for his flair and skill with the ball at his feet, having played as a
forward
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in his youth.
Due to his lack of height, however, as well as his poor handling and decision-making, he struggled at times when dealing with crosses, and was not particularly confident or decisive when coming off his line to catch high balls;
as such, critical reception of Taffarel was often divided throughout his career. While he drew praise from the Brazilian fans and media for his decisive performances with the Brazilian national team, which even earned him the nickname "Saint Taffarel" in the Brazilian media, he also drew criticism at times from Italian pundits over the mental aspect of his game, and his lack of development during his time in Serie A, which made him unreliable and prone to technical errors on occasion, despite his shot-stopping ability and generally high-quality gameplay, as well as his capacity to produce excellent saves. Moreover, his struggles to cope with his nerves are thought to have impeded him from succeeding consistently at the highest level with top European clubs throughout his career, despite his success and reputation. Ahead of the
1998 FIFA World Cup Final, Mike Penner of the ''
Los Angeles Times
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'' speculated that Taffarel, and the goalkeeping position more broadly, was the "weak link" of an otherwise world class Brazilian national side, due to the lack of top goalkeepers in Brazilian football at the time; indeed, prior to the tournament, ''Reuters'' had dismissed Taffarel as: "One of around a dozen goalkeepers in Brazil of roughly the same standard."
Post-retirement
![ClaudioTaffarel](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/ClaudioTaffarel.JPG)
Taffarel and his former Atlético Mineiro teammate
Paulo Roberto started up a player agency, with the focus mainly on promising youngsters.
During the 1998 World Cup, when the Brazilian national team was training at Trois-Sapins stadium in
Ozoir-la-Ferrière, a suburb southeast of Paris, the town's
mayor
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proposed renaming the stadium after him.
In 2004, Taffarel rejoined Galatasaray as goalkeeper coach – under former teammate
Gheorghe Hagi
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– returning to the club for the
2011–12 season, again with
Fatih Terim
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as manager.
Taffarel had two short spells as interim manager before leaving the Turkish side in 2019.
He currently works as a goalkeeper coach for both
Liverpool
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, having joined in 2021, and the Brazilian national team, having taken up the role in 2014.
Personal life
Born in Santa Rosa, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, Taffarel is of
German
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and
Italian
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descent.
Taffarel is a
born-again Christian
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who has actively shared his faith in numerous venues. He was a member of the
Fellowship of Christian Athletes
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since 1988, and has 17 children, 15 of them
adopted
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.
Career statistics
Club
International
Honours
Club
;Parma
*
Coppa Italia
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History
The beginning of the tournament was turbulent, due to the complexity of ...
:
1991–92,
2001–02
*
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
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:
1992–93
;Atlético Mineiro
*
Campeonato Mineiro
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The history of Campeonato Mineiro can be divided into two parts: befor ...
: 1995
*
Copa CONMEBOL
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:
1997
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;Galatasaray
*
Süper Lig
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:
1998–99,
1999–2000
*
Turkish Cup
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: 1998–99,
1999–2000
*
UEFA Cup
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:
1999–2000
*
UEFA Super Cup
The UEFA Super Cup is an annual super cup football match organised by UEFA and contested by the winners of the two main European club competitions; the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League. The competition's official name was originall ...
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2000
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International
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FIFA World Cup
The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the ' ( FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The tournament ha ...
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1994
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Runner-up
1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...
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Copa América
The Copa América ( en, America Cup) or CONMEBOL Copa América, known until 1975 as the South American Football Championship (''Campeonato Sudamericano de Fútbol'' in Spanish and ''Campeonato Sul-Americano de Futebol'' in Portuguese), is the t ...
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1989,
1997
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Runner-up
1991
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1995
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Summer Olympic Games
The Summer Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'été), also known as the Games of the Olympiad, and often referred to as the Summer Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inau ...
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Silver medal
A silver medal in sports and other similar areas involving competition is a medal made of, or plated with, silver awarded to the second-place finisher, or runner-up, of contests or competitions such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, etc ...
1988
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FIFA World Youth Championship
The FIFA U-20 World Cup is the biennial football world championship tournament for FIFA members’ men's national teams with players under the age of 20. The competition has been staged every two years since the inaugural tournament in 1977 wh ...
:
1985
The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations.
Events January
* January 1
** The Internet's Domain Name System is created.
** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a ...
Individual
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Toulon Tournament
The Toulon Tournament (officially the Festival International "Espoirs" – Tournoi Maurice Revello) is a football (training match) tournament, which traditionally features invited national teams composed of youth players from U-17 to U-23 level. ...
Best Goalkeeper:
1987
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Bola de Ouro
The ''Bola de Ouro'' (Golden Ball) is an annual award given each year, since 1973, by Brazilian sports magazine ''Placar'' to the best player in the Campeonato Brasileiro. A group of sports journalists watch every match of the competition and rat ...
: 1988
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Bola de Prata: 1988
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FIFA XI
FIFA (; stands for ''Fédération Internationale de Football Association'' ( French), meaning International Association Football Federation ) is the international governing body of association football, beach football and futsal. It was found ...
: 1998
FIFA XI´s Matches – Full Info
; at RSSSF
* Brazilian Football Museum Hall of Fame
* Man of the Match: 2000 UEFA Cup Final
See also
* List of footballers with 100 or more caps
References
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