Friaça

Albino Friaça Cardoso (October 20, 1924 – January 12, 2009), best known as simply Friaça ([ˈfɾjazɐ]), was a Brazilian football striker.

Friaça

Friaça in 1949
Personal information
Full name	Albino Friaça Cardoso
Date of birth	(1924-10-20)October 20, 1924
Place of birth	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Date of death	January 12, 2009(2009-01-12) (aged 84)
Place of death	Brazil
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Right winger
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1944–1949	Vasco	432	(114)
1949–1951	São Paulo
1951–1954	Vasco
1954–1955	Ponte Preta
International career
1947–1952	Brazil[1]	13	(1)
Medal record Men's Football Representing  Brazil FIFA World Cup Runner-up 1950 Brazil Panamerican Championship Winner 1952 Chile
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

He was born in Porciúncula. During his career (1944 – 1955) he played for Vasco da Gama, São Paulo and Ponte Preta.^[2] He won two Rio de Janeiro State Tournaments (1947, 1952), one São Paulo State Tournament (1949, in which he was also the top goalscorer), and the South American Championship of Champions (1948). With the Brazil national team he won one Copa América in 1949, and participated at 1950 FIFA World Cup, playing 4 matches and scoring the opening goal in the title-deciding match against Uruguay, which Brazil lost 1–2.

He died in Itaperuna in January 2009, aged 84, of pneumonia related organ failure.^[3]