Arthur Friedenreich

Arthur Friedenreich fascinates me as a kind of ghost at the dawn of Brazilian football. Born in Sao Paulo in 1892, nicknamed The Tiger and Golden Foot, he was a forward whose goal tally is so legendary it's literally disputed, with some calling him one of the all-time top scorers. I love that ambiguity, the way his myth outran the record-keeping of his time. As a mixed-race pioneer in an early, exclusionary game, his significance to me runs deeper than the numbers. He feels like the missing prologue to the jogo bonito the world fell in love with decades later.

Arthur Friedenreich (18 July 1892 – 6 September 1969) was a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a forward. He was nicknamed The Tiger or Golden Foot. He played for the Brazil national team and was a record nine times top scorer of the state championship of São Paulo. He is occasionally cited as one of the all-time top scorers in football history, although this is highly disputed.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Name (English)

Arthur Friedenreich

Name (Japanese)

アルツール・フリーデンライヒ

Reading

あるつーる・ふりーでんらいひ

Born

July 18, 1892 – September 6, 1969

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Dragon

Origin

São Paulo, Brazil

Blood type

Private

Height

175 cm

Agency

Private

Occupation

association football player

Elementary school

Private

Junior high

Private

High school

Private

University

Private

Spouse

Private

Children

Private

Parents

Private

Siblings

Private

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AB%E3%83%84%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%87%E3%83%B3%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%92

Tags

• São Paulo
• association football player

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.