Paulo César Carpegiani (born 7 February 1949, in
Erechim
Erechim is a Brazilian municipality located in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul. A regional center in the northern portion of the state, it is the second most populous city in the region with 106,633 inhabitants, second only to the city of ...
) is a Brazilian retired
footballer
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who played as a
midfielder
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Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
.
Playing career
Carpegiani began his professional career at
Sport Club Internacional
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of
Porto Alegre
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, in
Rio Grande do Sul, where he played from 1970 to 1977, winning two
Brazilian Championships (1975 and 1976). Carpegiani also played for
Flamengo
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(1977–1980), winning the
Brazilian Championship in 1980.
Coaching career
Upon retiring, he started a career as a football coach. To begin with Carpegiani coached Flamengo and won the
Copa Libertadores de América (Libertadores Cup) and the
Intercontinental Cup, beating
Liverpool
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, in 1981. He also won a Brazilian Championship in 1982. In 1992, he was coach of the Barcelona Sporting Club (Guayaquil - Ecuador). In 2007, he was hired by the
Corinthians
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. The team lost in his first match, against
Clube Náutico Capibaribe, and the club was eliminated from the
Copa do Brasil
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in the quarter finals. His first match of the
Campeonato Brasileiro was against
Esporte Clube Juventude and Corinthians won.
His best performance as a coach was with the
Paraguayan national team from 1996 to 1998 (including a good run in the World Cup, losing to France in extra time). On April 10, 2009 Carpegiani was hired as
Vitória's head coach. On June 1, 2010
Atlético Paranaense
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officials hired the former Vitória coach to replace Leandro Niehues.
Entrevista com Paulo César Carpegiani
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Career statistics
Head coach
Honors
Player
;Internacional
* Campeonato Brasileiro Série A: 1975, 1976
*Campeonato Gaúcho
The Campeonato Gaúcho Série A1 (Gaúcho Championship A1 Series or Série A1), officially named as Campeonato da Primeira Divisão de Futebol Profissional da FGF - Divisão Especial - Série A1 and commonly known as Campeonato Gaúcho or Gauchã ...
: 1969 to 1976
;Flamengo
* Campeonato Brasileiro Série A: 1980
* Campeonato Carioca: 1978, 1979
Coach
;Flamengo
* Copa Libertadores: 1981
* Intercontinental Cup: 1981
* Campeonato Brasileiro Série A: 1982
;Náutico
* Campeonato Brasileiro Série B: 1986
;Cerro Porteño
* Paraguayan First Division: 1994
;Atlético Paranaense
* Campeonato Paranaense: 2001
;Vitória
*Campeonato Baiano
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2020 format
First stage:
10 teams are included in one group, playing once only against all teams i ...
: 2009
Individual honors
*Silver Ball Revista Placar- 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 ...
*''3rd'' Paraguay best manager all time- 1998 World Cup
References
External links
Profile at cbf.com.br
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1949 births
Living people
People from Erechim
Brazilian footballers
Brazilian football managers
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A players
1974 FIFA World Cup players
1979 Copa América players
1997 Copa América managers
1998 FIFA World Cup managers
Brazilian people of Italian descent
Brazil international footballers
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Paraguay
Expatriate football managers in Paraguay
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A managers
Association football midfielders
Sport Club Internacional players
CR Flamengo footballers
CR Flamengo managers
Al Nassr FC managers
Sport Club Internacional managers
Clube Náutico Capibaribe managers
Bangu Atlético Clube managers
Cerro Porteño managers
Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras managers
Barcelona S.C. managers
Coritiba Foot Ball Club managers
Paraguay national football team managers
São Paulo FC managers
Club Athletico Paranaense managers
Cruzeiro Esporte Clube managers
Kuwait national football team managers
Sport Club Corinthians Paulista managers
Esporte Clube Vitória managers
Associação Atlética Ponte Preta managers
Esporte Clube Bahia managers
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Kuwait
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Saudi Arabia
Expatriate football managers in Saudi Arabia
Expatriate football managers in Kuwait
Expatriate football managers in Ecuador
Saudi Professional League managers
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Ecuador
Sportspeople from Rio Grande do Sul