![]() Martim Francisco as of 1954 | |||
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Martim Francisco Ribeiro de Andrada | ||
Date of birth | 21 February 1928 | ||
Place of birth | Barbacena, Minas Gerais, Brazil | ||
Date of death | 22 June 1982 | (aged 54)||
Place of death | Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil | ||
Youth career | |||
Years | Team | ||
ca. – 1941–? | Olympic Barbacena (MG) | ||
also | Juventus (Barbacena, MG) | ||
Managerial career | |||
1951 | Villa Nova | ||
1952 | Siderúrgica | ||
1953–1954 | Atlético Mineiro | ||
1954–1956 | America | ||
1956–1957 | Vasco da Gama | ||
1958 | Internacional | ||
1958–1960 | Athletic Bilbao | ||
1961 | Vasco da Gama | ||
1961–1962 | Corinthians | ||
1962 | Comercial-SP | ||
1963 | Villa Nova | ||
1963 | Cruzeiro | ||
1964 | Atlético Mineiro | ||
1965 | Bangu | ||
1964–1965 | Elche | ||
1965 | Real Betis | ||
1966–1967 | Deportivo Logroñés | ||
1967 | Bangu | ||
1967 | → Houston Stars (loan) | ||
1968 | Valeriodoce | ||
1969 | América Mineiro | ||
1970 | Rodoviária | ||
1971–1972 | Villa Nova | ||
1973 | CRB | ||
1973 | Vasco da Gama de Passos | ||
1976 | Goiânia | ||
1976–1977 | Villa Nova-MG | ||
1977 | Guarani de Divinópolis | ||
1979–1980 | Gama | ||
1981 | Tiradentes-DF |
Martim Francisco Ribeiro de Andrada (21 February 1928[a] – 22 June 1982) was a Brazilian association football coach. He is widely credited with the invention of the 4–2–4 formation when guiding his first club, the Villa Nova AC of Nova Lima, to the State Championship of Minas Gerais in 1951. He won further state championships with Atlético Mineiro of Belo Horizonte in 1953, CR Vasco da Gama of Rio de Janeiro in 1956 and SE Gama of Brasília in 1979. Other clubs he coached include Corinthians, Cruzeiro, America FC of Rio de Janeiro and Athletic Bilbao in Spain. With Bangu AC he won the State Champions' Cup of 1967.
Martim Francisco, scion of a distinguished Brazilian family – his ancestors include José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva, considered the "Patriarch of Brazilian Independence", and many other lustrous personalities – studied psychology and law.[1] An accident prevented him from playing football beyond the youth level and he never acquired a formal coaching diploma. In 1954 it was reported that he had 650 books about football, of which he considered El preparador técnico from Spain and Tácticas y técnicas from Argentina as the most important ones. In his opinion, the WM of Herbert Chapman and the third defender of Izidor Kürschner were the basis of all tactics. He considered from early on the intermingling of club officials with the work of the coach as a major problem. His bynames included primeiro lorde dos gramados brasileiros ("First Lord of the Brazilian fields"), professor and cientista do futebol ("Scientist of Football"). He died aged 54 from alcohol related illness.
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