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Bauer
	Bauer in 1950
Personal information
Full name	José Carlos Bauer
Date of birth	21 November 1925
Place of birth	São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Date of death	4 February 2007 (aged 81)
Place of death	São Paulo, Brazil
Position(s)	Defensive midfielder
Youth career
1938–1945	São Paulo
Senior career*
Years	Team
1945–1956	São Paulo
1956	Botafogo
1956	Portuguesa
1957	São Bento
International career
1949–1955	Brazil
Managerial career
1959	Juventus-SP
1960	Ferroviária
1960	Atlas
1965	Millonarios
1973	Comercial-MS
Medal record
Men's Football
Representing Brazil
FIFA World Cup
South American Championship
Panamerican Championship
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

José Carlos Bauer (21 November 1925 – 4 February 2007), commonly known as Bauer, was a Brazilian football player and manager who played as a midfielder.

Early life

Born in São Paulo, Bauer was the son of a Swiss man and an African-Brazilian woman. He was normally a defensive midfielder, Bauer was regarded as one of the finest Brazilian midfielders of his generation.^[1]

Career

Bauer played for São Paulo and Botafogo. He won six São Paulo State Championship (1943, 1945, 1946, 1948, 1949 and 1953).

For the Brazil national team he played 29 matches, with five goals he won 1949 Copa América and participated at two FIFA World Cup finals, in 1950 and 1954. His last match in this tournament is famous Battle of Berne.

After he retired he managed Ferroviária de Araraquara. Curiously, in a trip of Ferroviária in Mozambique, Bauer saw a young Eusébio. Very impressed with him, Bauer indicated Eusébio to São Paulo, which denied him.^[2] Then, he talked with his former coach in São Paulo, Béla Guttmann, about Eusébio. Guttmann, who was coaching Benfica at the time, brought him to the Estádio da Luz.^[2]