Sebastião Miranda da Silva Filho, usually called Mirandinha, (born 26 February 1952) is a Brazilian former footballer who played as a forward. At international level, he was included in the Brazilian squad for the 1974 FIFA World Cup.
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Sebastião Miranda da Silva Filho | ||
Date of birth | (1952-02-26) 26 February 1952 (age 70) | ||
Place of birth | Bebedouro, São Paulo, Brazil | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1969–1970 | América-SP | ||
1970–1973 | Corinthians | 76 | (39) |
1974–1978 | São Paulo | 28 | (11) |
1978–1979 | Tampa Bay Rowdies | 20 | (3) |
1979 | Tampa Bay Rowdies (indoor) | 5 | (5) |
1979 | Memphis Rogues | 12 | (5) |
1981 | Atlético-GO | ||
1981–1982 | Tigres | ||
1983 | Taubaté | ||
1985 | Ginásio Pinhalense-SP | ||
National team | |||
1974 | Brazil | 6 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Mirandinha spent his early career in Brazil. In 1978, São Paulo sent him to the Tampa Bay Rowdies midway through the North American Soccer League season.[1] That season, the Rowdies went to the championship where they fell to the New York Cosmos. Mirandinha scored the lone Rowdies goal in the 3–1 Soccer Bowl '78 loss.[2] He also co-led the team in goals for the Rowdies' brief winter indoor campaign of 1979, scoring five times in five matches.[3][4] He began the 1979 season in Tampa Bay before being traded to the Memphis Rogues on 7 June 1979.[5]
Other clubs may have included ABC-RN, Guará-DF, Douradense-MS, União de Mogi-SP, Saad-SP, Independente de Limeira
Mirandinha earned four caps with the Brazilian national team at the 1974 FIFA World Cup,[6] scoring no goals and accumulating one yellow card in a first round match versus Zaire.[7] His other appearances included once as a starter in a 0–0 tie against Scotland[8] in the first round, and twice more as a second-half substitute in losses to Netherlands[9] in the second round and to Poland in the third place match.[10] He was also an unused substitute in three additional matches in the tournament.
Brazil squad – 1974 FIFA World Cup fourth place | ||
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1973 Bola de Prata | |
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