Luis Macedo Matoso (29 December 1901 – 23 August 1985), known as Feitiço, was a Brazilian

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who played as a

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. He played for the Brazil national team and was six times top scorer of the State championship of São Paulo.

Life

Born in

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, Feitiço spent his childhood and youth in the São Paulo neighborhood of Bixiga, a quarter with strong Italian influences, where he began playing football. He started his career with a single match in 1921 for

SC Corinthians Paulista Sport Club Corinthians Paulista () is a Brazilian professional sports club based in São Paulo, in the district of Tatuapé. Although it competes in multiple sports modalities, it is best known for its professional men's Association football, f ...

. In 1923 the center-forward joined

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in downtown São Paulo, where he was top scorer of the

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in 1923, 24 and 25, winning the title in 1925. In 1926 he joined

Santos FC Santos Futebol Clube () is a Brazilian sports club based in Vila Belmiro, a ''bairro'' in the city of Santos, São Paulo, Santos. It plays in the Campeonato Paulista, the São Paulo (state), state of São Paulo's premier State football lea ...

where in 1927 he was part the famous hundred goals attack. He once more was top scorer of the

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in 1929, 1930 and 1931. 1932 to 1933 he played again for Corinthians, where this time he scored 12 times in 12 matches. From 1933 to 1935 he played in the Uruguayan capital Montevideo for

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, where in his first year after two hard-fought 0–0's in the championship decider against

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Peñarol eventually lost the third match 3–2. In 1935 Peñarol won the championship of Uruguay. In 1936 he returned briefly to Santos, where he altogether scored 216 goals in 151 matches. Later that year he moved to Rio to Janeiro to play for

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winning the State Championship in his first year, being acclaimed as best player of his side. 1938 to 1938 he played again in São Paulo, his time for Palestra Itália, today's SE Palmeiras. 1940 he returned to Rio to end his career in the north of the town with São Cristóvão FR. He played in 1931 in one official match for the Brazil national team, against

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. He played on more occasions for the national team, but then against club teams. His major competitors here were

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, Nilo and in the end the legendary "rubber man"

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.Marcelo Leme de Arruda:
Seleção Brasileira (Brazilian National Team) 1923-1932
', RSSSF Brazil, 2012-12-19. He died on 23 August 1985, in São Paulo.

References

* Gustavo Grohmann:
Feitiço: Ex-atacante do Santos, Palmeiras e Corinthians
', Terçeiro Tempo: Que fim levou? (per 2013-09-27) 1901 births 1985 deaths Brazilian men's footballers Men's association football forwards Brazil men's international footballers Associação Atlética São Bento players Peñarol players Santos FC players Sport Club Corinthians Paulista players CR Vasco da Gama players SE Palmeiras players São Paulo state football team players Brazilian expatriate men's footballers Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Uruguay Expatriate men's footballers in Uruguay Footballers from São Paulo 20th-century Brazilian sportsmen {{Brazil-footy-forward-1900s-stub