Zico
Arthur Antunes Coimbra
Brazilian association football player and manager (Wikidata description)
- Nationality
- Brazil
- Born
- 3 March 1953
- Position
- Midfielder
- Preferred foot
- Not verified
- Senior career
- 1971–1994
Clubs Clube de Regatas do Flamengo · Udinese Calcio · Kashima Antlers
Career statistics
Club figures here are senior domestic-league matches unless marked otherwise; international figures are full senior caps. Youth, reserve, Olympic, friendly and unofficial matches are excluded from totals. Totals are summed from the individual sourced records below. Where a record is missing, the figure is shown as unavailable — never as zero.
Club league apps
333
Club league goals
192
International caps
71
International goals
48
League goals / match
0.58
International goals / cap
0.68
All official apps
Unavailable
All-competition totals not yet sourced
Goals per 90
Unavailable
Requires minutes for every match
Assists: Unavailable — assists were not recorded consistently before the modern data era.
Club-by-club and international breakdown
| Team | Years | Counts | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clube de Regatas do FlamengoClub | 1971–1989 | League | 249 | 135 |
| Brazil men's national football teamNational team | 1976–1986 | Full caps | 71 | 48 |
| Udinese CalcioClub | 1983–1985 | League | 39 | 22 |
| Kashima AntlersClub | 1991–1994 | League | 45 | 35 |
Season by season
Season-level records are unavailable for this player in the current sources. They will appear here when a licensed season-by-season source is imported.
Team accolades
- ×3
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
Domestic
- 1980 · Clube de Regatas do Flamengo
- 1982 · Clube de Regatas do Flamengo
- 1983 · Clube de Regatas do Flamengo
- ×1
Copa Libertadores
Continental club
- 1981 · Clube de Regatas do Flamengo
- ×1
Intercontinental Cup
Continental club
- 1981 · Clube de Regatas do Flamengo
Sourced stated or derived from referenced statementsProvisional inferred from club stint dates — squad membership not individually verifiedVerified checked by an editor
Individual accolades
No dated individual awards from the catalog are recorded for this player in the current sources. This may reflect incomplete source data rather than an absence of awards; editors can add sourced entries.
Career timeline
1971
- Joins Clube de Regatas do Flamengo — Until 1983
1976
- Senior international debut: Brazil men's national football team — Until 1986
1980
- Campeonato Brasileiro Série A winner — 1980 · Clube de Regatas do Flamengo(provisional)
1981
- Copa Libertadores winner — 1981 · Clube de Regatas do Flamengo(provisional)
- Intercontinental Cup winner — 1981 · Clube de Regatas do Flamengo(provisional)
1982
- Campeonato Brasileiro Série A winner — 1982 · Clube de Regatas do Flamengo(provisional)
1983
- Campeonato Brasileiro Série A winner — 1983 · Clube de Regatas do Flamengo(provisional)
- Joins Udinese Calcio — Until 1985
1985
- Joins Clube de Regatas do Flamengo — Until 1989
1991
- Joins Kashima Antlers — Until 1994
Statistical score explained
Snapshot v2, methodology v1.0.0, published 27 October 2026. Each category is scored 0–100, multiplied by its weight, and summed. Full methodology →
Overall score
38.0
Rank #90
Partially verified4/5 categories with full evidence · 0% of inputs directly sourced
Coverage describes how complete the evidence is. It is not a probability and is separate from the score.
Peak performanceFull evidence16.9+5.08 points
- Best window
- 1979–1983
- Individual award points in window
- 0
- Award availability in window
- 0.302
- Team honor points in window
- 14.5
- Peak index
- 7.25
v1 measures peak through documented recognition (awards and titles) in the best rolling window, because season-level performance data is not available consistently across eras.
Career performanceFull evidence85.2+21.29 points
- League goals per match
- 0.577 → 98.24
- International goals per cap
- 0.676 → 100
- International caps per year
- 6.45 → 77.73
Individual accoladesLimited evidence0.0+0.00 points
- Contemporary award points
- 0
- Award availability coverage
- 0.415
- Era-adjusted contemporary points
- 0
- Retrospective all-time honors
- 0
Only 41% of the modern award opportunity existed for this player's career; contemporary points are scaled by at most 1/0.5 (floor) to limit extrapolation.
Team accomplishmentsFull evidence33.8+5.08 points
- Team honor points
- 14.5
- Club-league catalog coverage
- 0.826
- Intercontinental Cup (1981)
- 2.5
- Copa Libertadores (1981)
- 6
- Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (1980)
- 2
- Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (1982)
- 2
- Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (1983)
- 2
Some club titles are inferred from stint dates overlapping a title-winning season (squad membership not individually verified).
LongevityFull evidence65.4+6.54 points
- Senior career length (years)
- 24 → 100
- Documented elite seasons
- 4 → 36
- International career length (years)
- 11 → 71
Appearance totals are deliberately not used, so accumulating matches alone does not raise this score.
Editorial biography
No editorial biography has been written yet. Biographies are written by hand with sources; none are generated automatically.
Sources
- Wikidata: Zico (Q47526)CC0 1.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026
- Wikimedia Commons: Zico 2012.jpgCC BY 2.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026