José Amoroso Filho (19 September 1937 – 16 September 2022), simply known as Amoroso was a Brazilian professional

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who played as a

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Career

Amoroso began his career at Botafogo where he was two-time Rio champion in 1961 and 1962, moving to Fluminense in 1964, where he was again state champion and also top scorer in the Campeonato Carioca in 1964 and 1965. He played for Fluminense from 1964 to 1968, being champion of the 1965 Torneio Início and the 1966 Taça Guanabara, scoring 72 goals in 135 matches. He left Fluminense in a trade with Clube do Remo, for the then promising defender

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. For Remo he was state champion and of the Torneio do Norte, and scored a goal against

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in a friendly played in

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, making the final score 1–1, with the other goal scored by

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Personal life

Amoroso is the uncle of the footballer

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Honours

;Botafogo *

Campeonato Carioca The Campeonato Carioca (Carioca Championship), officially known as Campeonato Estadual do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro State Championship), also commonly known as the Cariocão, is the top-flight professional state football league in the Br ...

1961 Events January * January 1 – Monetary reform in the Soviet Union, 1961, Monetary reform in the Soviet Union. * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and cons ...

1962 The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a Nuclear warfare, nuclear confrontation during the Cold War. Events January * January 1 – Samoa, Western Samoa becomes independent from Ne ...

* Torneio Início: 1962 ;Fluminense *

1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 – In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patria ...

Taça Guanabara The Taça Guanabara ( English: Guanabara Cup) is an annual football tournament attached to the Campeonato Carioca, the state football league in the Rio de Janeiro state. It has been organized since 1965 by the Rio de Janeiro State Football Fe ...

: 1966 ;Remo *

Campeonato Paraense The Campeonato Paraense, nicknamed Parazão, is the top-flight professional state football league in the Brazilian state of Pará. It is run by the Pará Football Federation (FPF). List of champions Amateur era Professional era Titles by c ...

: 1968 *

Torneio do Norte The Torneio do Norte (English: North Tournament) was a football competition held between 1968 and 1971. The champion of the tournament gained a place in the Torneio Norte-Nordeste The Torneio Norte-Nordeste (English: North-Northeast Tourname ...

: 1969 ;Individual *1964 Campeonato Carioca top scorer: 19 goals *

1965 Campeonato Carioca The 1965 edition of the Campeonato Carioca kicked off on September 11, 1965 and ended on December 19, 1965. It was organized by FCF (Federação Carioca de Futebol, or Carioca Football Federation). Eight teams participated. Flamengo won the title ...

top scorer: 10 goals

Death

Amoroso died of natural causes, 16 September 2022, aged 84.

References

External links

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