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After Brazil's first presidential election in many years, the new president Fernando Collor de Mello appointed Zico as his Minister of Sports. Zico stayed at this political assignment for about a year and his most important contribution was a piece of legislation dealing with the business side of sport teams.
Milton Antonio Nunes Niemet (born November 13, 1966, in São Paulo), known as Zico, is a Brazilian football manager and former player. [1] He came from Brazil to Mexican soccer in the middle of the 1991–1992 season for Puebla.
Zico (footballer) (born 1953), born Arthur Antunes Coimbra, Brazilian footballer and coach; Zico (footballer, born 1966), born Milton Antonio Nunes Niemet, Brazilian footballer and coach; Zico (rapper) or Woo Ji-ho (born 1992), South Korean rapper
Brazil won their third title, beating Argentina 2–1 in the final in a dramatic last-minute victory led by Zico and attended by 13,550 fans. As part of the push to help make the U.S. soccer literate in time for the 1994 World Cup, the 1991 Pele Cup, which featured the six nations that have won a World Cup, was played at Joe Robbie Stadium.
Centro de Futebol Zico de Brasília Sociedade Esportiva were founded on August 1, 1999 [1] by former footballer Zico as a branch of Rio de Janeiro state club Centro de Futebol Zico Sociedade Esportiva. [2] CFZ de Brasília professionalized their football section on July 15, 2001. [2] The club won the Campeonato Brasiliense in 2002. [3]
The Copa do Craque de Masters (also known as Copa Zico), was the third edition of the World Cup of Masters. For the third time running it was held in Brazil, over the course of January 1990. Returning to the format of the first tournament, there were five "Senior" teams, now addressed as "Masters".
Centro de Futebol Zico Sociedade Esportiva, or simply CFZ do Rio is a Brazilian football team from Rio de Janeiro, founded by Zico on July 12, 1996. Three years later, on August 1, 1999, CFZ do Rio founded a branch in Brasília ( Distrito Federal ), known as CFZ de Brasília .
Pelé holds the record for the most hat-tricks by a Brazilian player, scoring seven between 1958 and 1964, [2] one of which occurred in the World Cup finals. Besides Pelé, the only Brazilian players to have scored a hat-trick in a World Cup final tournament are Leônidas da Silva against Poland in 1938 and Ademir de Menezes against Sweden in 1950.