Zagallo was discharged after 12 days of hospitalization due to a respiratory infection.

Former Brazilian footballer and coach Mario Zagallo, who turns 91 on Tuesday, left the hospital this Sunday after 12 days of hospitalization due to a respiratory infection, medical sources said.

Zagallo was treated for the infection at a private hospital in Rio de Janeiro and doctors said he was always conscious and breathing without assistance.

In addition to first winning two world championships as a player in 1958 and 1962 and then as a coach in 1970, long before German Franz Beckenbauer (1974 and 1990) and Frenchman Didier Deschamps (1998 and 2018). , Zagallo, is the only one to date to have participated in five World Cup finals, of which he only lost one, against France in 1998, as a coach.

In 1994 in the United States, he was the assistant to Carlos Alberto Parreira, who won the fourth of five world titles won by Brazil, but his “masterpiece” remains the 1970 World Cup in Mexico, where the newly appointed coach led Brazil to this third coronation of the planet with exciting football and such stars as Pele, Jairzinho, Tostao, Gerson and Rivellino.