Enio Vargas de ANDRADE.
Coach. Age 58.
One of the best club coaches in Brazil and a leading can
didate to manage the national team at the 1990 World Cup in
Italy. Andrade is sitting in a very hot seat since Inter have a
reputation of impatience with coaches who do not produce
instant success. Since Andrade was replaced shortly after
guiding Inter to the 1980 South American cup final, Inter have
gone through no fewer than seven top-ranked team bosses.
Mario Juliato lasted only 55 days, then came Claudio Duarte
- an old favourite as a player - Sergio Clerici, Ernesto
Guedes, Milan's 1963 European champion Dino Sani, Paulo
Cesar Carpeggiani (World Club Cup-winning boss of
Flamengoin 1981), Otacillo Goncalves - who was lured away
to Saudi Arabia - and Homero Cavalheiro. In the meantime
Andrade did more than enough to make Inter regret their
parting of the ways. A matter of months after leaving Inter he
guided neighbours and deadly rivals Gremio to end Inter's
three-year domination of the Gaucho league title. In 1985 he
took unfancied outsiders Coritiba to triumph in the national
championship. He has a number of stock sayings on which
he claims to base his success. Such as: "The best blackboard
is the pitch." And: "Success depends on a minimum of
theory and a maximum of discipline." Andrade returned as
Inter coach at the start of May from Sport Recife after turning
down an offer from Flamengo, the Rio-based former world
club champions.
INTERNACIONAL DE PORTE ALEGRE
Back Row (left to right): Luiz Carlos, Taffarel, Aloisio,
Norberto, Laercio, Beto.
Front Row: Heyder, Airton, Amarildo, Bandeira,
Balalo.
Claudio Andre Mergen TAFFAREL.
Goalkeeper. Age 21 - born 8 May, 1966.
One of the stars of Brazil's 1985 World Youth Cup-winning
side, who defeated Spain 1-0 after extra-time in the final in
Moscow. Inter had discovered him, only two years before,
keeping goal for a local team in a small town named
Crissiumal, some 350 miles from Porto Alegre. His hero was
the Uruguayan World Cup goalkeeper, Ladislao
Mazurkiewicz, who played in Brazil for many years. Taffarell's
arrival allowed Inter to sell Gilmar Rinaldi - Brazil's 1984
Olympic Games keeper - to Sao Paulo FC.
MANO (Jose Anderson da Silva Martins).
Goalkeeper. Age 29 - born 1 October 1957.
Previously with a small Rio Grande do Sul league club, Sao
Borja.
Jose MAURICIO Vieira da Silva.
Right back. Age 24 - born 2 May, 1963.
ALOISIO Pires Alves.
Central defender. Age 23 - born 16 August, 1963.
PINGA (Jorge Luis da Silva Brum).
Centre back. Age 22 - born 23 April, 1965.
One of the best young central defenders in Brazil and a
leading candidate for the 1990 World Cup team - particular
ly after the defensive debacle in the recent South American
championship when Brazil crashed out 4-0 to Chile. Pinga
was a key figure in the Brazil team which reached the 1984
Olympic Games final before losing 2-0 to France in
Pasadena.
ADEMIR ANTES.
Centre back. Age 23 - born 10 August, 1963.
LUIS CARLOS Winck.
Right back. Age 24 - born 5 January, 1963.
A member of the Brazil squad at the 1984 Olympic Games but
played only once, in a 2-0 win over Morocco in the first round.
LAERCIO.
Centre back. Age 19.
Moved up from the youth sections last summer after the sale
of star stopper Mauro Galvao to Bangu of Rio.
BETO.
Left back. Age 22.
ANDRE Luis de Santos.
Left back. Age 27 - born 21 October, 1959.
PAULO OMAR Teixeira.
Left back. Age 27 - born 3 January, 1960.
AIRTON.
Midfield. Age 20.
One of the new youngsters forced into the first-team sooner
than expected because of the clear-out of star names over
the past year.
NORBERTO.
Midfield. Age 19.
BANDEIRA.
Midfield, Age 19.
Ad emir MULLER Rodrigues.
Midfield. Age 27 - born 20 August, 1959.
Born in a town quaintly named Nao Me Toque (Don't Touch
Me) and signed by Inter from another Rio Grande do Sul
club, Novo Hamburgo (New Hamburg).
LUIS Arnoldo Ellwanger FREIRE.
Midfield. Age 34 - born 10 November, 1952.
Signed from Aimore of Rio Grande.
ADEMIR Bernardes de ALCANTARA.
Midfield. Age 24 - born 17 December, 1962.
Signed from Pelotas of Rio Grande, for whom he was the
Gaucho league's top scorer in 1984.
Jose FERNANDO Jacques Dornelles.
Midfield. Age 27 - born 25 June, 1960.
Signed, like reserve goalkeeper, Mano, from Sao Borja.
HEIDER.
Right wing. Age 23.
Can also play in midfield.
NATALINO Rodrigues Antunues.
Centre-forward. Age 18 - born 25 December, 1968.
One of the stars of the Brazilian team which finished third in
the inaugural World Under-16 championship in China in
1985.
AMARILDO.
Centre forward. Age 24.
Top scorer this season with more than 20 goals in the Rio
Grande do Sul championship. Named Amarildo after the
World Cup-winning striker of 1962.
JUSSIE No Seara.
Right wing. Age 23 - born 10 August, 1963.
Signed from famous old Rio de Janeiro club, Vasco da Gama.
SILIO Luis Hickmann.
Right wing. Age 27 - born 18 July, 1960.
MARCELO Goncalves Vita.
Forward. Age 24 - born 19 Feburary, 1963.
Signed in 1985, from top Rio club, Vasco da Gama - but only
on loan after an unhappy spell in Italy with Udinese.
BETINHO (Luis Roberto Peltz Fagundes).
Left wing. Age 28 - born 3 March, 1959.
Signed from minor local club, Santa Cruz do Sul.
BALALO (Luis Claudio Maciel).
Forward. Age 21 - born 17 August, 1965.
A star of Brazil's winning side in the 1985 World Youth Cup in
the Soviet Union. Balalo earned special praise in the official
FIFA Report, for his lethal free kicks. He also scored the
decisive second goal - just before half-time - in Brazil's 2-0
semi-final victory over Nigeria but is not afraid of coming
back deep into midfield to help out when his team are under
pressure.
LUIS FERNANDO Rosa Flores.
Striker. Age 23 - born 22 February, 1964.
Born and brought up in Campinas but was somehow re
jected as a teenager by top local club Guarani and made his
breakthrough instead with the Rio Grande do Sul team, Cax-
ias. Already nicknamed Maradoninho - Little Maradona -
and did his best to justify that label in his first full season in
1985 when he was Caxias' 12-goal top scorer even though
they were relegated. Signed then for Inter and in one of his
first games scored four goals - including a brilliant solo
from the halfway line - in a 5-1 victory over Rio Branco.