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.

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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

Origin

São Paulo, Brazil

Height

170 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Dragon

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Friedenreich
• 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
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q366156

Tags

• São Paulo
• association football player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.