Domingos da Guia

In this article, the surname is da Guia, not Guia.
Domingos da Guia
Da Guia with Boca Juniors
Personal information
Full name Domingos Antônio da Guia
Date of birth (1912-11-19)19 November 1912[1]
Place of birth Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Date of death 18 May 2000(2000-05-18) (aged 87)
Place of death Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Centre back
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1929–1932 Bangu[2] 57 (2)
1932 Vasco da Gama[3] 14 (0)
1933 Nacional 25 (0)
1934 Vasco da Gama[3][4] 12 (0)
1935–1937 Boca Juniors[5] 56 (0)
1936 → Flamengo (loan)[6] 17 (0)
1937–1943 Flamengo 139 (0)
1944–1948 Corinthians[7] 77 (0)
1948 Bangu 20 (0)
Total 417 (2)
International career
1931–1946 Brazil 30 (0)
Medal record
Representing  Brazil
FIFA World Cup
Third place 1938 France
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Domingos Antônio da Guia (born in Rio de Janeiro, November 19, 1912 – died in Rio, May 18, 2000) was a Brazilian footballer.

He played in four matches for Brazil in the 1938 FIFA World Cup finals.[8] He is regarded as one of the best Brazilian defenders of all time.[9]

Honours

Nacional
Vasco
Boca Juniors
Flamengo
Corinthans
Rio de Janeiro State Team
Brazil

Individual

References

  1. ^ "Domingos da Guia". Soccerway. Perform. Retrieved 28 August 2015.
  2. ^ [1] Archived 2018-08-13 at the Wayback Machine Almanaque do Bangu (in Portuguese)
  3. ^ a b "Acervo histórico". Acervo O Globo (in Portuguese). O Globo.
  4. ^ [2] BrFut (in Portuguese)
  5. ^ La Historia de Boca Juniors (in Spanish)
  6. ^ Fla-Estatística.com(in Portuguese)
  7. ^ Unzelte, Celso (2005). Almanaque do Timão (in Portuguese). Ed. Abril.
  8. ^ "Domingos da Guia". Competitions. FIFA. Archived from the original on 15 June 2008. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
  9. ^ Brazil's greatest defenders at Sky Sports
  10. ^ Copa América Best Players