Died this Sunday (26) the former right wing Dorval, 86, idol of Santos and two-time champion of Libertadores and world for the club from Vila Belmiro.
The former player was hospitalized at the Casa de Saúde de Santos with a delicate clinical condition. The club declared mourning for seven days and the wake will take place at the Vila de Marble Hall.
“Dorval is one of the unforgettable players, who helped to build this beautiful history of Santos. He deserves all the reverence for his trajectory. Santos has lost one of its greatest idols today,” said Santos president Andrés Rueda, to the club’s official website.
Born in Porto Alegre, Dorval arrived at Santos in 1957. In the 1960s, together with Mengálvio, Coutinho, Pelé and Pepe, he formed the most recited attack in the history of the association.
The player played 612 games with the Santos shirt, the fifth to wear the Alvinegra shirt more often, and scored 194 goals, which placed him as the sixth top scorer in Santos.
During his victorious passage through Vila Belmiro, he won the Libertadores and the Worlds in 1962 and 1963, he was six-time São Paulo champion (1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964 and 1965) and won five Brazilian titles (1961, 1962, 1963, 1964 and 1965 ).
As soon as he arrived at the club, Dorval shared a room with Pelé both in the concentration that was in Vila Belmiro and in Dona Georgina’s pension. The striker said that the relationship with the King was not the easiest.
“At one time he bought a drum set and played in his room. It was that noisy. He had a very naughty temper. Once we had a fight and we didn’t speak for a year. The reason was an argument after a game with Portuguesa that we were winning 2 to 0 and we lost 3 to 2. He made a mistake and thought that the others had to apologize just because he was Pelé. The curious thing is that we slept in the same room and didn’t talk. speak on the field,” Dorval told Santos’ official website.
In addition to Santos, the player played for Força e Luz-RS, Juventus-SP, Bangu, Athletico, Racing (ARG), Palmeiras, Carabobo (VEN) and Saad-SP.
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