José Mário Crispim (born 16 May 1954), simply known as Zé Mário is a Brazilian former professional footballer and manager who played as a

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Career

Appointed as the ideal replacement for

Ademir da Guia Ademir da Guia (born 3 April 1942) is a retired professional footballer who played as a midfielder during the 1960s and 1970s for Palmeiras, a leading association football team in Brazil, where he is still regarded as one of the club's all-time ...

, Zé Mário was hired by Palmeiras with great expectations. However, without finding space at the club at first, he was negotiated with Botafogo-SP and Santos to gain experience. He returned to Palmeiras in the late 70s where he was state champion. In 1981 at Ponte Preta, he had his great year, being nominated for the Bola de Prata. For the Brazil under-20 team, he was South American champion in 1974.

Managerial career

After helping with the preparations of the youth categories, he was coach of Botafogo-SP in 1996, in the runner-up campaign of

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. Zé Mário had two more spells at Botafogo, in 2001 and 2004. In 2012 he was the club's football director.

Honours

;Brazil U20 *

South American U-20 Championship The South American Youth Football Championship, also known as South American U-20 Championship (; ), branded as CONMEBOL Sub 20, is a South American football tournament organized by the CONMEBOL for South American national teams of men under age o ...

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;Palmeiras *

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