Orlando de Azevedo Viana, commonly known as Orlando Pingo de Ouro ("golden drop") (December 4, 1923 - August 4, 2004) was a Brazilian footballer, who played as a left midfielder.

Football career

Orlando began his career at Náutico and defended the colors of

Fluminense Fluminense Football Club (), known as Fluminense, is a Brazilian sports club best known for its professional football team that competes in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, the first tier of Brazilian football and the Campeonato Carioca, th ...

playing between 1945 and 1954, scoring 186 goals in 310 matches for ''Flu'', making him top scorer in the 1946 Carioca Championship and the 1952 Rio Cup His debut for Fluminense at

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was in the 2–1 victory over America FC on August 5, 1945, having scored the winning goal in the 38th minute of the second half, against 13,113 paying fans, plus the tricolor members present at the Laranjeiras Stadium that afternoon. His nickname was given after scoring 4 goals on a rainy day against Bonsucesso FC, with journalist José Araújo writing the day after, that Orlando "looked like a drop of water present all over the lawn and shining as if it were gold". Still for Fluminense, Orlando was champion of the 1948 Municipal Tournament (when he scored in the final against

CR Vasco da Gama Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama (), commonly referred as Vasco da Gama or simply Vasco, is a professional sports club based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Originally a rowing club, Vasco is mostly known for its football team, who it currently compe ...

with a bicycle goal), having been the top scorer in this competition with 12 goals, and champion in Rio in

1946 Events January * January 6 - The first general election ever in Vietnam is held. * January 7 – The Allies recognize the Austrian republic with its 1937 borders, and divide the country into four occupation zones. * January 10 ** The ...

and

1951 Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United ...

. He would be champion also the 1952 Rio Cup and the Torneio Inicio of 1954 and 1956. Orlando is the biggest tricolor scorer against the traditional rival America, with 15 goals, 13 for the Campeonato Carioca and 2 for the Municipal Tournament. For the

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, he was a South American champion in

1949 Events January * January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2022. * January 2 – Luis ...

, when he played his 3 games for the ''seleção canarinho'', scoring 2 goals (1 in each game) in the victories over

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(5–0) and

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(7–1), also participating with great performance of the victory in the final against

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(5–1).Livro Seleção Brasileira 90 anos. Short and slight, he was fast and very intelligent, knowing how to move very well and, therefore, always putting himself in the position to score many goals, which he did consecrating himself as the second highest scorer in the history of

Fluminense FC Fluminense Football Club (), known as Fluminense, is a Brazilian sports club best known for its professional football team that competes in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, the first tier of Brazilian football and the Campeonato Carioca, ...

. He moved to

Santos FC Santos Futebol Clube (), commonly known simply as Santos or Santos FC and nicknamed the ''Peixe'' (; "fish"), is a Brazilian sports club based in Vila Belmiro, a '' bairro'' in the city of Santos. It is also the team with the most goals i ...

and, in a few months, he was playing at

Clube Atlético Mineiro Clube Atlético Mineiro (), commonly known as Atlético Mineiro or Atlético, and colloquially as Galo (, "Rooster"), is the largest professional football club based in the city of Belo Horizonte, the capital city of the Brazilian state of Mi ...

, in

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, where he had to live with a drama: the triple taboo. Atlético led the number of state titles, had more achievements than their rivals Cruzeiro, América Mineiro and Villa Nova, but all their rivals had already been three-time champions, and of the big ones, only the Rooster who did not. Orlando helped the team, led by Uruguayan Ricardo Díez, to finally break that mark (after 39 championships), by acting with Ubaldo, Amorim, Joel, Afonso, Osvaldo, Zé do Monte, Tomazinho and other beasts on Sunday afternoons in Campo do Sete (as the Independência Stadium was called, currently popularly known as the "Horto trapdoor").

Main titles

; Fluminense * Copa Rio:

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 ...

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 ...

* Torneio Municipal: 1948 * Torneio Início do Campeonato Carioca:

1954 Events January * January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany. * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The fir ...

1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim ...

* Torneio José de Paula Júnior:

* Copa das Municipalidades do Paraná:

1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito i ...

* Taça Benemérito João Lira Filho - (inauguração do estádio do Olaria:

1947 It was the first year of the Cold War, which would last until 1991, ending with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Events January * January–February – Winter of 1946–47 in the United Kingdom: The worst snowfall in the country in ...

(Fluminense versus Vasco) * Taça V.C Borba:

( Atlético PR versus Flu) * Taça Folha da Tarde:

( Internacional-RS versus Flu) * Taça Casa Nemo:

* Troféu Prefeito Acrisio Moreira da Rocha:

( Fla-Flu) * Taça Secretário da Viação de Obras Públicas da Bahia:

(

Esporte Clube Bahia Esporte Clube Bahia (), known familiarly as Bahia, is a Brazilian professional football club, based in Salvador, capital city of the Brazilian state of Bahia. They play in the Campeonato Baiano, Bahia's state league, and the Campeonato Bras ...

versus Fluminense) * Taça Madalena Copello:

( Fla-Flu) * Taça Desafio:

(Fluminense versus

Uberaba Uberaba () is a city in the state of Minas Gerais, southeast Brazil. It is located in the Brazilian Highlands at above sea level on the Uberaba River, and away from the state capital, Belo Horizonte. The city status was granted in 1856, and i ...

) ; Atlético Mineiro ; Seleção Brasileira * Campeonato Sul-Americano de 1949

References

External links

Orlando Pingo de Ouro - Site Terceiro Tempo.
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