Mazinho

Mazinho is the kind of footballer I quietly admire: a 1994 World Cup winner who never needed to be the star. At 176 cm and able to play both holding midfield and full-back, he survived at the top through intelligence and positional reading rather than physical dominance. I like players whose value shows up in the spaces they cover and the balance they give a team. That he later managed Aris in Greece, and fathered sons who became professionals themselves, only deepens my sense of him as a footballing lifer whose contribution outlasts the highlight reels.

Name (English)

Mazinho

Name (Japanese)

イオマール・ド・ナシメント

Reading

いおまーる・ど・なしめんと

Born

April 8, 1966 (age 60)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Horse

Origin

Santa Rita, Paraíba, Brazil

Height

176 cm

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazinho
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A4%E3%82%AA%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8A%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q350761

Tags

• Paraíba
• association football player
• association football coach

Last updated

2026-06-21

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.