João Carlos Batista Pinheiro, Pinheiro (January 13, 1932 in Campos dos Goytacazes – August 30, 2011), was a Brazilian

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who achieved notoriety playing for Fluminense and the Brazil national football team. He was arguably the player with most appearances for Fluminense in the club's history, with 605 matches in total.

Honours

* Fluminense **

Campeonato Carioca The Campeonato Carioca (Carioca Championship), officially known as Campeonato Estadual do Rio de Janeiro (Port., Rio de Janeiro State Championship), was started in 1906 and is the annual football championship in the state of Rio de Janeiro, B ...

: 1951, 1959 ** Copa Rio: 1952 ** Torneio Rio-São Paulo: 1957, 1960 * Brazil ** Panamerican Championship:

1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes m ...

Bernardo O'Higgins Cup Bernardo is a given name and less frequently an Italian, Portuguese and Spanish surname. Possibly from the Germanic "Bernhard". Given name People * Bernardo the Japanese (died 1557), early Japanese Christian convert and disciple of Saint Fra ...

: 1955

Literature

Portrait in book ''1954 FIFA World Cup players'', 2010,

References

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