The consecrated Brazilian coach Jorge Mario Lobo Zagallo90 years old, Was admitted In janeiro river due to a respiratory infectionaccording to medical sources reported on Wednesday.
Zagallo entered the Barra D’Or Hospital on Tuesday night “for treatment of a respiratory infection and is under medical carelucid and breathing spontaneously without the help of devices,” the clinic reported in a note.
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According to the information, the nonagenarian coach “was given a test for covid-19which was negative“.
In a recent poll on the portal “ge”, from the Globo group, with a hundred coaches on who was the best coach in the history of Brazilian football, Zagallo finished second, behind Tele Santana, who with the national team did not win any title world, different from the “Old Wolf”.
Close to turning 91, on August 9, Zagallo owns several of the marks -still in force- that made him a living legend, including being the only one in the world to have won four world titles.
The former left winger, idol of Rio de Janeiro’s Botafogo and born in 1931 in the impoverished state of Alagoas, was crowned champion as a player in the World Cups in Sweden 1958 and Chile 1962, as coach in Mexico 1970 and as technical coordinator in the United States 1994 .
Another mark still unbeaten is that of being the only one in the world to have reached five World Cup finals in his seven appearances.
The only final he lost, of the five in which he was as a player, coach or coordinator, was the 1998 World Cup in France, in which the hosts beat Brazil, coached by Zagallo.
