Evaristo

1950/52 Madureira (BRE)

1953/57 Flamengo (BRE) 190 games, 103 goals

1957/62 FC Barcelona (ESP) 151 games, 105 goals

(Spanish Championship: 114 games, 78 goals)

(European Cup of Champions: 16 games, 10 goals)

(European Fairs Cup: 21 games, 17 goals)

1962/65 Real Madrid (ESP) 19 games, 5 goals

(Spanish Championship: 17 games, 4 goals)

(European Cup of Champions: 2 games, 1 goal)

1965/66 Flamengo (BRE) 7 games

With the National Team :

13 caps, 8 goals

(Friendly matches: 5 caps)

(World Cup qualifiers: 2 caps)

(Copa America: 6 caps, 8 goals)

1st cap: September 18, 1955 against Chile (1-1)

Last cap: April 3, 1957 against Argentina (0-3)

Evaristo De Macedo Filho

Born June 22, 1933 in Rio de Janeiro (BRE)

Brazilian, Striker, 1m80

Evaristo was born on June 22, 1933 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He began his career in a modest club in Rio de Janeiro, Madureira. With this team, he faced great teams from the region. Very technically fine, the striker is fast, intelligent and has a great vision. And it is therefore quite logical that he was recruited in April 1953 by the legendary Flamengo club.

Flamengo immediately made him the star of its attack where he became a star in the country and joined the Brazilian national team in September 1955. His adventure with the Seleçao would end 2 years later, in 1957, when he decided to be one of the first Brazilian players to go to Europe. Impossible to refuse when it is FC Barcelona who comes to get him, he is then 24 years old.

In Spain, he immediately shows himself very skillful in attack and is one of the headliners of this great FC Barcelona which has one of the best teams of all time with Luis Suarez Miramontes, Laszlo Kubala or Sandor Kocsis as players, and Helenio Herrera as coach.

For his first season in Spain, he scores 13 goals in 24 games. But it is the following season that he will become a player anchored in the hearts of FC Barcelona supporters by scoring a hat-trick against Real Madrid on the 7th day of La Liga, while FC Barcelona ends the match 10 against 11, winning 4-0. He ends the season with 21 goals scored, winning the Spanish championship.

He wins La Liga again the following season against the great Real Madrid. But Evaristo became one of the best players in the history of FC Barcelona for his ability to become even more decisive in important matches. In fact, he won 2 Inter-Cities Fairs Cups in 1958 and 1960, including a double in the final in the 1958 edition. In total, he scored 17 goals in 21 matches in the competition.

And in the European Champions Cup, the predecessor of the Champions League, he scored a total of 4 goals in his first participation in the competition, reaching the semi-finals, losing 4-2 overall against Real Madrid. The following season, he eliminated Real Madrid by scoring the winning goal 2-1 in the return match.

During this 1960/61 campaign, the player was radiant and put in a series of good performances until the final. But he finally lost the competition to Benfica, led by a certain Eusébio, 3-2. He scored a total of 18 goals in 35 games during that season.

But the beautiful love story with FC Barcelona ended with a transfer to the sworn enemy, Real Madrid in 1962. The player, who was then 29 years old, seemed physically burned out and struggled to find a place in the Merengues squad. In 3 seasons, the player only played 19 times for 5 goals.

He then decided in 1965 to return to Brazil to quietly finish his career at Flamengo. He ended his career the following year when he was 33 years old. Evaristo still remains a football legend with more than 200 goals scored during his career, including 28 goals in 39 European competition games.

- Top scorer in the European Fairs Cup in 1958 (4 goals) (FC Barcelona)

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