Flávio Costa

Flávio Costa

Personal information
Full name	Flávio Rodrigues da Costa
Date of birth	(1906-09-14)September 14, 1906
Place of birth	Carangola, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Date of death	November 22, 1999(1999-11-22) (aged 93)
Place of death	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Position(s)	Defensive midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1926–1936	Flamengo	83	(8)
Managerial career
1934–1937	Flamengo
1937	Portuguesa da Ilha
1938	Santos
1938–1945	Flamengo
1945–1950	Brazil
1946	Flamengo
1947–1950	Vasco da Gama
1951–1952	Flamengo
1953–1956	Vasco da Gama
1955–1956	Brazil
1956–1957	Porto
1957–1958	Portuguesa
1959–1960	Colo-Colo
1960–1961	São Paulo
1962–1965	Flamengo
1965–1966	Porto
1970	Bangu
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Flávio Rodrigues da Costa (14 September 1906 – 22 November 1999) was a Brazilian football player and manager. He managed the Rio de Janeiro clubs Vasco da Gama and Flamengo, as well as Colo Colo of Chile, and FC Porto of Portugal.

Costa coached the Brazilian squad at the 1950 FIFA World Cup; the loss against Uruguay has been described as Brazil's greatest humiliation of the 20th century.^[1][2] As a consequence of his World Cup failure, he lost his prestige among the Brazilian press and supporters of the national team. However, he was again manager of the Brazilian team in 1955 and in 1956.

He died in Rio de Janeiro in November 1999.

From 1926 until 1936, Costa played 145 matches, mostly as a midfielder, in the black and red jerseys of Flamengo and scored 15 goals in the process. From September 1934 forward he was player-manager.

The climax of his playing career was the winning of the state championship of Rio de Janeiro in 1927.

Team	Nation	From	To	Record
				G	W	D	L	Win %
Flamengo	Brazil	16 September 1934	10 January 1937	102	63	21	18	61.76
Associação Atlética Portuguesa (RJ)	Brazil	1937	1937	22	6	3	13	27.27
Santos	Brazil	1938	1938	16	7	2	7	43.75
Flamengo	Brazil	8 December 1938	18 November 1945	293	164	62	67	55.97
Brazil	Brazil	14 May 1944	16 July 1950	41	27	6	8	65.85
Flamengo	Brazil	10 March 1946	21 December 1946	49	27	6	16	55.1
Vasco da Gama	Brazil	1947	1950	114	92	13	9	80.7
Flamengo	Brazil	17 February 1951	21 December 1952	101	63	15	23	62.38
Vasco da Gama	Brazil	1953	1956	103	62	24	17	60.19
Brazil	Brazil	13 November 1953	13 November 1953	1	1	0	0	100
Brazil	Brazil	1 April 1956	8 August 1956	13	7	3	3	53.85
FC Porto	Portugal	August 1956	3 April 1957	32	20	4	8	53.85
Associação Portuguesa de Desportos	Brazil	1957	1958	75	37	18	20	49.33
Colo-Colo	Chile	1959	1960	27	16	6	5	59.26
São Paulo FC	Brazil	1960	1961	64	31	16	17	48.44
Flamengo	Brazil	21 January 1962	22 July 1965	220	122	43	55	62.38
FC Porto	Portugal	1965	1966	29	17	7	5	58.62
Bangu	Brazil	1970	1970	25	5	5	13	20
Total				1,327	767	254	306	57.8

• Flávio Costa at Museu dos Esportes at the Wayback Machine (archived 27 September 2007) (in Portuguese)
• Flávio Costa article at Museu dos Esportes at the Wayback Machine (archived 27 September 2007) (in Portuguese)
• Flávio Costa coach profile at Sambafoot (archived)