Zico International career How did his international career start? He made his international debut in the South American Qualifier to the 1972 Summer Olympics playing 5 matches and scoring the qualifying goal against Argentina.
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An episode related to Brazil national football team almost made Zico give up on his career. He made his international debut in the South American Qualifier to the 1972 Summer Olympics playing 5 matches and scoring the qualifying goal against Argentina. Despite this fact, he wasn't called up to the Munich games. He felt extremely frustrated and told his father in dismay he wanted to stop playing football. He even got absent from training at Flamengo for 10 days, being later convinced otherwise by his brothers.  In the opening group match of the 1978 World Cup against Sweden, Zico headed a corner kick into the goal in the final minute of the match, apparently breaking a 1-1 tie. However, in a call that became infamous, the Welsh referee Clive Thomas disallowed the goal, saying that he had blown the whistle to end the match while the ball was still in the air from a corner. In the secound round, he scored from a penalty in a 3-0 win over Peru. Zico eventually won a bronze medal with Brazil at the tournament, defeating Italy in the 3rd place final. Zico also won another bronze medal with Brazil in the 1979 Copa America.  The 1982 World Cup would see Zico as part of a fantastic squad, side by side with Falcao, Socrates, Eder, Cerezo and Junior. In spite of his 4 goals and the great amount of skill in that squad, the team was defeated 3-2 by Paolo Rossi and Italy in the final match of the second round group stage.  He played in the 1986 FIFA World Cup while still injured, and missed a penalty during regular time in the quarter-final match against France. The match ended in a tie which led to a shootout. Zico then scored his goal, but penalties missed by Socrates and Julio Cesar saw Brazil knocked out of the tournament.  Having been cleared of all the tax evasion charges by Italian officials in 1988, Zico decided to pay a tribute to Udine, the city that had madly welcomed him six years before, and played his farewell match for the Selecao in March 1989 losing 1-2 to a World All-Stars team at Stadio Friuli. CANNOTANSWER
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Zico may refer to:
 Zico (footballer) (born 1953), born Arthur Antunes Coimbra, Brazilian footballer and coach 
 Zico Soccer, a video game
 Zico Football Center, a sports complex in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
 Zico (footballer, born 1966), born Milton Antonio Nunes Niemet, Brazilian footballer and coach
 Zico (rapper) or Woo Ji-ho (born 1992), South Korean rapper
 ZICO (beverage), a brand of coconut water

People with the given name
 Zico Bailey (born 2000), American soccer player
 Zico Doe (fl. from 1990), Liberian footballer
 Zico Luzinho Ingles Casimiro or Luzinho (born 1985), East Timorese footballer
 Zico Otieno (Zedekiah Otieno, born 1968), Kenyan footballer
 Zico Phillips (born 1991), Barbadian footballer  
 Zico Rumkabu (born 1989), Indonesian footballer
 Zico Senamuang or Kiatisuk Senamuang (born 1973), Thai footballer and coach
 Zico Waeytens (born 1991), Belgian cyclist

See also
 Zito (disambiguation)
 Zico Chain, a British rock band
 Zeiko Lewis (born 1994), Bermudian footballer
Joseph Jef Nelis was a Belgian footballer, born on 1 April 1917 in Tutbury, Staffordshire, (England), who died on 12 April 1994. Striker for Royal Berchem Sport, he was picked for the World Cup in 1938 in France, but did not play. However, he played two games and scored two goals in 1940 for Belgium.

Honours 
 International in 1940 (2 caps and 2 goals)
 Picked for the 1938 World Cup (did not play)

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Belgium international footballers
Belgian footballers
1938 FIFA World Cup players
K. Berchem Sport players
Royale Union Saint-Gilloise players
1917 births
1994 deaths
Association football forwards
People from Tutbury Boris Kotoff (born c. 1928) is a former Canadian football player who played for the Ottawa Rough Riders. He previously played football in Hamilton, Ontario.

Kotoff was a fullback who played three years for Ottawa from 1954 to 1957. Kotoff was probably at training camp with Ottawa in 1957, but did not play in any regular season games. In 1958, Kotoff was in the Montreal training camp, but again did not play any regular season games. He ran for 132 yards in his career on 31 attempts, scoring 1 rushing touchdown. He also caught 7 passes for 106 yards.

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Possibly living people
1920s births
Players of Canadian football from Ontario
Canadian football running backs
Ottawa Rough Riders players
Sportspeople from Hamilton, Ontario