# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zico
# Generated: 2026-08-31T20:45:03.467Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zico"
name: "Zico"
slug: "zico"
description: "A playmaker who threaded passes and curled free kicks with a precision so close to Pelé's that Pelé said it himself. Zico scored 101 direct set pieces across his career and captained the Brazil side that never won a World Cup but is still called one of the greatest teams ever assembled."
tagline: "Brazilian association football player and manager"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Zico_2012.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Brazil"
  isoCode: "BR"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1953-03-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           63.21
  momentum:             4.8
  historical:           26.974284
  currentAttention:     18.46428571428572
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
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    slug: "footballers"
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    slug: "football-soccer-player"
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    slug: "soccer"
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  - name: "Brazil"
    slug: "brazil"
  - name: "Americas"
    slug: "americas"
  - name: "20th Century"
    slug: "20th-century"
platforms:
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    handle:    "ziconarede"
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    handle:    "zico"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
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    handle:    "ZicoOficial"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
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    handle:    "nm0955999"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.ziconarede.com.br/znrpub/ig_index_news.htm"
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    title: "Wikipedia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Zico"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Zico"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zico"
    title: "Zico"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zico"
    title: "Zico"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zico"
    title: "Zico"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zico"
    title: "Zico"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Zico"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ζίκο"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Zico"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Zico"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Zico"
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  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zico"
    title: "Zico"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "زیکو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zico"
    title: "Zico"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Zico"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "زيكو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Arthur Antunes Coimbra was born 3 March 1953 and became the attacking midfielder who married vision with an unnerving eye for goal. He won Player of the Year in 1981 and 1983, finished seventh in the FIFA Player of the Century vote in 1999, and was named to the FIFA 100 five years later. For Brazil he scored 48 goals in 71 appearances — fifth all-time — and played in three World Cups: 1978, 1982, 1986. The 1982 side, especially, is remembered as a tragedy of beauty: a team that didn't lift the trophy but burned itself into memory. After playing he coached Japan to the 2004 Asian Cup and the 2006 World Cup, took Fenerbahçe to the Champions League quarter-finals in 2007–8, and later managed CSKA Moscow, Olympiacos, and Iraq. He now works as technical director at Kashima Antlers.