Jairzinho

Jairzinho is, for me, the most underrated star of perhaps the greatest team ever assembled. Scoring in every match of the 1970 World Cup is a feat no one has matched, yet he is too often filed behind Pelé and Tostão. I see him as the engine of that side: a powerful, direct right winger who combined skill with a finisher's instinct. What I like most is that he never really left the game, moving into coaching and even beach soccer. That lifelong attachment tells me football was not a career for him but a vocation. A true great, and one I wish more people celebrated.

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Name (English)

Jairzinho

Name (Japanese)

ジャイルジーニョ

Reading

じゃいるじーにょ

Born

December 25, 1944 (age 81)

Origin

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Height

173 cm

Occupation

association football player / association football coach / beach soccer player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Monkey

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jairzinho
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A7
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q210102

Tags

• Rio de Janeiro
• association football player
• association football coach
• beach soccer player

Last updated

September 23, 2026

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