User:Felipe Scama/Orlando Pingo de Ouro

Orlando de Azevedo Viana, better known as Orlando "Pingo de Ouro" (Golden Drop) (Recife, December 4, 1923 - Rio de Janeiro, August 4, 2004) was a Brazilian footballer, who served as a left midfielder.

Football Career
Orlando began his career at Náutico and defended the colors of Fluminense playing between 1945 and 1954, scoring 186 goals in 310 matches for Flu, making himself the top scorer in the 1948 Carioca Championship and the 1952 Rio Cup.

His debut for Fluminense at Laranjeiras Stadium was in the 2–1 victory over America on August 5, 1945, having scored the winning goal in the 38th minute of the second half, against 13,113 paying fans, plus the tricolor members present at the Laranjeiras Stadium that afternoon.

His nickname was given after scoring 4 goals on a rainy day against Bonsucesso, with journalist José Araújo writing the day after, that Orlando "looked like a drop of water present all over the lawn and shining as if it were gold".

Still for Fluminense, Orlando was champion of the 1948 Municipal Tournament (when he made the goal in the final against Vasco da Gama by bicycle), having been the top scorer in this competition with 12 goals, and champion in Rio in 1946 and 1951. He would be champion also the 1952 Copa Rio and the Beginning of 1954 and 1956 tournaments, considering only official titles.

Orlando is the biggest tricolor scorer in the classic against America, with 15 goals, 13 for the Campeonato Carioca and 2 for the Municipal Tournament.

For the Brazilian national team, he was a South American champion in 1949, when he played his 3 games for the Canarian team, scoring 2 goals (1 in each game) in the victories over Colombia (5–0) and Peru (7–1), also participating with great performance of the victory in the final against Uruguay (5–1).

Short and slight, he was fast and very intelligent, knowing how to move very well and, therefore, always putting himself in the position to score many goals, which he did consecrating himself as the second highest scorer in the history of Fluminense.

He moved to Santos and, in a few months, he was at Atlético Mineiro, in Minas Gerais, where he had to live with a drama: the triple taboo. Atlético led the number of state titles, had more achievements than their rivals Cruzeiro, América Mineiro and Villa Nova, but all their rivals had already been three-time champions, and of the big ones, only the Rooster who did not.

Orlando helped the team, led by Uruguayan Ricardo Díez, to finally break that mark (after 39 championships), by acting with Ubaldo, Amorim, Joel, Afonso, Osvaldo, Zé do Monte, Tomazinho and other beasts on Sunday afternoons in Campo do Sete (as the Independência Stadium was called, currently popularly known as the "Horto trapdoor").

Main Titles

 * Fluminense


 * Copa Rio: 1952
 * Campeonato Carioca: 1946 e 1951
 * Torneio Municipal: 1948
 * Torneio Início do Campeonato Carioca: 1954 e 1956
 * Torneio José de Paula Júnior: 1952
 * Copa das Municipalidades do Paraná: 1953
 * Taça Benemérito João Lira Filho - (inauguração do estádio do Olaria: 1947 (Fluminense versus Vasco)
 * Taça V.C Borba: 1947 (Atlético PR versus Flu)
 * Taça Folha da Tarde: 1949 (Internacional-RS versus Flu)
 * Taça Casa Nemo: 1949
 * Troféu Prefeito Acrisio Moreira da Rocha: 1949 (Fla-Flu)
 * Taça Secretário da Viação de Obras Públicas da Bahia: 1951 (Esporte Clube Bahia versus Fluminense)
 * Taça Madalena Copello: 1951 (Fla-Flu)
 * Taça Desafio: 1954 (Fluminense versus Uberaba)


 * Atlético Mineiro


 * Seleção Brasileira


 * Campeonato Sul-Americano de 1949

Ligação externa
Orlando Pingo de Ouro - Site Terceiro Tempo.



Category:Clube Atlético Mineiro players Category:Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas players Category:Santos FC players Category:Clube Náutico Capibaribe players Category:Fluminense FC players Category:2004 deaths Category:1923 births Category:Pernambuco Category:Naútico Capiberibe