Adilson da Silva
Personal information
Full name	Adilson Jose da Silva
Born	(1972-01-24) 24 January 1972 (age 40) Santa Cruz do Sul, Brazil
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Nationality	Brazil
Residence	KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Career
Turned professional	1994
Current tour(s)	European Tour Sunshine Tour
Professional wins	>39
Number of wins by tour
Sunshine Tour	9
Other	>30
Best results in Major Championships
Masters Tournament	DNP
U.S. Open	DNP
The Open Championship	CUT: 2000, 2007
PGA Championship	DNP

Adilson Jose da Silva (born 24 January 1972) is a Brazilian professional golfer. He currently plays on the Southern Africa-based Sunshine Tour, where he has won nine times.

Da Silva was born in Santa Cruz do Sul, Brazil but later moved to KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He turned professional in 1994. Da Silva competes predominantly on the Southern Africa-based Sunshine Tour. He won his first event on the tour in 1997 and has since added eight more tournament victories, and led the Vodacom Swing Challenge standings in 2006. He holds the record for most consecutive cuts made on the Sunshine Tour with 43.

Da Silva has also played extensively in Zimbabwe, where he won the Amateur Championship in 1992. He competed on the Zimbabwean PGA Tour between 1996 and 2003, winning more than 30 titles and heading the Zimbabwean Order of Merit on five occasions.

Da Silva played in The Open Championship in 2000 and 2007, missing the cut both times.

Amateur wins (4)[link]

• 1990 Brazil Amateur Open Championship
• 1991 Brazil Amateur Open Championship
• 1992 Zimbabwe Amateur Championship
• Phalaborwa Open

Professional wins (>39)[link]

Sunshine Tour wins (9)[link]

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning Score	Margin of Victory	Runner(s)-up
1	16 Nov 1997	Leopard Rock Classic	-6 (67-72-69-66=274)	2 strokes	Mark Murless, Sean Pappas
2	1 Feb 1998	Nashua Wild Coast Sun Challenge	-14 (64-69-66=199)	4 strokes	Chris Davison, Scott Dunlap Marco Gortana, Hennie Walters
3	19 May 2007	Suncoast Classic	-8 (71-66-71=208)	1 stroke	Doug McGuigan
4	24 Aug 2007	Vodacom Origins of Golf Tour at Fancourt	-2 (75-72-70=217)	Playoff	Warren Abery
5	2 May 2009	SAA Pro-am Invitational	-13 (68-67-68=203)	1 stroke	Darren Fichardt, Anton Haig
6	29 Aug 2010	Zambia Open	-17 (64-66-72=202)	4 strokes	Johan du Buisson
7	24 Oct 2010	Suncoast Classic	-20 (67-63-66=196)	4 strokes	Jean Hugo
8	14 May 2011	Nashua Golf Challenge	-14 (70-69-63=207)	5 strokes	Trevor Fisher Jnr
9	2 Sep 2011	Vodacom Origins of Golf Tour (Sishen)	-10 (71-67-68=206)	2 strokes	Allan Versfeld

Other wins (>30)[link]

• 1996-2003: over 30 wins on the Zimbabwean PGA Tour

Results in major championships[link]

DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.

Team appearances[link]

Professional

• World Cup (representing Brazil): 2011

See also[link]

• List of golfers with most Sunshine Tour wins

External links[link]

• Adilson da Silva at the Sunshine Tour official site
• Adilson da Silva at the European Tour official site
• Adilson da Silva at the Official World Golf Ranking official site

Telê Santana

Telê Santana holding a São Paulo F.C. jersey
Personal information
Full name	Telê Santana da Silva
Date of birth	(1931-07-26)July 26, 1931
Place of birth	Itabirito, Brazil
Date of death	April 21, 2006(2006-04-21) (aged 74)
Place of death	Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Playing position	Winger
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1951–1960	Fluminense	557	(162)
1960–1962	Guarani
1963	Vasco
Teams managed
1969–1970	Fluminense
1970–1976	Atlético Mineiro
1977–1979	Grêmio
1980–1982	Palmeiras
1980–1982	Brazil
1983–1985	Al-Ahli
1985–1986	Brazil
1987–1988	Atlético Mineiro
1988–1989	Flamengo
1990–1996	São Paulo
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of April 20, 2009. † Appearances (Goals).

Telê Santana da Silva, also known as Telê Santana (July 26, 1931 – April 21, 2006), was a Brazilian football manager and former player (right winger). He was born in Itabirito, Minas Gerais.

Telê was the manager responsible for putting together the 1982 and 1986 Brazil national squads, best remembered as one of the greatest teams in history never to win a World Cup. He was also a highly successful manager of various club teams, including the legendary 1992 and 1993 São Paulo, and was also very influential with Atlético Mineiro and Fluminense.

Telê is often named the most important football manager ever in Brazil by sports journalists.^[1] His preferred style of play was very offensive-minded, and he believed in relentless repetition of basic plays and set piece training.

Career[link]

Playing career[link]

Telê played for clubs such as Fluminense, Madureira and Vasco da Gama. He was also a reserve player of the Brazil national football team. As a player, his preferred position was centre forward. However, he started his career as a goalkeeper.

Managerial career[link]

His career as a manager started in 1967, coaching the Fluminense youth squad. Four years later, Telê led Atlético Mineiro to win its first Brazilian championship title. Regarded to have coached one of the best Brazil national squads in 1982 World Cup and 1986 World Cup, he failed, however, to win the tournament in both occasions.

Besides the coaching of the Brazil national team, Santana returned to club management in 1988 at Flamengo, but enjoyed his palmiest days with São Paulo between 1990 and 1996. With an outstanding team featuring Zetti, Cafu, Raí, and Leonardo (all of the aforementioned players eventually made it to the national squad in 1990 and 1994), the side won the Brazilian championship title in 1991, and then the Libertadores Cup in 1992 and 1993, the first time that a Brazilian club had won it in 10 years. In those same two seasons, São Paulo also claimed the world club title in Tokyo, beating first Johan Cruyff's FC Barcelona and then Fabio Capello's A.C. Milan.^[2] The memory of this squad is still very much regarded by the fans as one of the most spectacular in São Paulo's history.^[3][4]

Personal life[link]

Santana is widely credited for the re-invention of the jogo bonito ("beautiful game" in Portuguese) by the vast majority of the Brazilian press. His full-attack mentality of play was best displayed with the 1982 Brazilian national squad who fell 3–2 to Italy in the Second Round of the Cup.^[5] Santana was criticized by many for refusing to switch Brazil's forward style of play versus Italy, since Brazil only needed to tie the game to reach the Semifinals due to the original World Cup setup at the time. Some pundits felt that Santana should have placed more emphasis on defence and a counter attack strategy due to circumstances of the match. Regardless of the fact that Santana never led the Brazilian squad to glory, he is still regarded as one of greatest managers and innovators in the history of Brazilian football.^[6][7]

In 1996, he had to retire, after suffering a stroke.^[8] He had part of his left leg amputated in 2003 because of ischemia in his left foot. He was operated at Hospital Felício Roxo, in Belo Horizonte.^[9]

Santana died on April 21, 2006, due to an abdominal infection.^[10] His body was buried at Cemitério Parque da Colina, in Belo Horizonte.^[11] His wife Ivonete and their son and daughter survive him.

With regards to role models, Santana has mentioned in one interview that he had no idols, though: "my greatest satisfaction would be to manage a team such as 1974 Holland. It was a team where you could pick [Johan] Cruyff and place him on the right wing. If I had to put him in the left-wing, he would still play [the same]. I could choose Neeskens, who played both to the right and to the left of the midfield. Thus, everyone played in any position."^[12] He said he tried to use a similar tactic strategy in 1992's São Paulo, by using versatile players in different positions according to what was required in a match.

He was once considered by the media the "last romantic of the Brazilian football",^[12] and had always been a strong campaigner for the fair play and against violence in the game.^[13]

Honours[link]

As a Manager[link]

• 1969 - Taça Guanabara and Campeonato Carioca (Fluminense)
• 1970 - Campeonato Mineiro (Atlético Mineiro)
• 1971 - Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (Atlético Mineiro)
• 1977 - Campeonato Gaúcho (Grêmio)
• 1983 - King's Cup (Al-Ahli)
• 1984 - Saudi League (Al-Ahli)
• 1985 - Gulf Club Champions Cup (Al-Ahli)
• 1988 - Campeonato Mineiro (Atlético Mineiro)
• 1989 - Taça Guanabara (Flamengo)
• 1991 - Campeonato Brasileiro (São Paulo)
• 1991-1992 - Campeonato Paulista (São Paulo)
• 1992-1993 - Libertadores Cup and Intercontinental Cup (São Paulo)
• 1993 - Supercopa Sudamericana (São Paulo)
• 1993-1994 - Recopa Sudamericana (São Paulo)
• 1994 - Copa CONMEBOL (São Paulo)

References[link]

^[1]

Websites[link]

Books[link]

• Enciclopédia do Futebol Brasileiro, Volume 2 - Lance, Rio de Janeiro: Aretê Editorial S/A, 2001.

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Mirko Jozić	Copa Libertadores winning managers 1992 & 1993	Succeeded by Carlos Bianchi

Telê Santana international tournaments v t e Brazil squad – 1982 FIFA World Cup 1 Waldir Peres 2 Leandro 3 Oscar 4 Luizinho 5 Toninho Cerezo 6 Júnior 7 Paulo Isidoro 8 Sócrates 9 Serginho 10 Zico 11 Éder 12 Paulo Sérgio 13 Edevaldo 14 Juninho 15 Falcão 16 Edinho 17 Pedrinho 18 Batista 19 Renato 20 Roberto Dinamite 21 Dirceu 22 Carlos Coach: Telê Santana v t e Brazil squad – 1986 FIFA World Cup 1 Carlos 2 Édson 3 Oscar 4 Edinho (c) 5 Falcão 6 Júnior 7 Müller 8 Casagrande 9 Careca 10 Zico 11 Edivaldo 12 Paulo Vitor 13 Josimar 14 Júlio César 15 Alemão 16 Mauro Galvão 17 Branco 18 Sócrates 19 Elzo 20 Silas 21 Valdo 22 Leão Coach: Telê Santana