Albino Friaça Cardoso (October 20, 1924 – January 12, 2009), best known as simply Friaça (), was a Brazilian

football striker Forwards (also known as attackers) are outfield positions in an association football team who play the furthest up the pitch and are therefore most responsible for scoring goals as well as assisting them. As with any attacking player, the role ...

. He was born in Porciúncula. During his career (1944 – 1955) he played for Vasco da Gama,

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and Ponte Preta.FIFA.com
/ref> He won two Rio de Janeiro State Tournaments (1947, 1952), one São Paulo State Tournament (1949, in which he was also the top goalscorer), and the

South American Championship of Champions The South American Championship of Champions ( es, Campeonato Sudamericano de Campeones, pt, Campeonato Sul-Americano de Campeões) was a football competition played in Santiago, Chile in 1948 and the first continental-wide football tournament in ...

(1948). With the Brazil national team he won one Copa América in 1949, and participated at

1950 FIFA World Cup The 1950 FIFA World Cup was the fourth edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football championship for senior men's national teams and held in Brazil from 24 June to 16 July 1950. The planned 1942 and 1946 World Cups were ...

, playing 4 matches and scoring the opening goal in the title-deciding match against Uruguay, which Brazil lost 1–2. He died in

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in January 2009, aged 84, of pneumonia related organ failure.

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* 1924 births 2009 deaths Footballers from Rio de Janeiro (city) 1950 FIFA World Cup players Associação Atlética Ponte Preta players Brazilian footballers Brazil international footballers CR Vasco da Gama players Association football forwards São Paulo FC players Deaths from multiple organ failure {{Brazil-footy-forward-1920s-stub