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Brazilian soccer legend Mario Zagalu, who won the World Cup twice as a player, once as a head coach and once as an assistant coach, died over the weekend at the age of 92.
Zagalu is the only one to have won the prestigious trophy four times.
He played a major role in almost every final tournament of the World Cup, from the 1958 championship, where Zagalu became champion with the Brazilian national team, to the 2014 tournament, which took place in Brazil.
Tite, the former head coach of the Brazilian national team, also consulted with Zagal ahead of the 2018 and 2022 World Cup finals.
As a footballer, Zagalu won the World Cup in Sweden in 1958 and in Chile in 1962.
Zagalu’s football career ended in 1965 and five years later he also won the World Cup as a coach, leading a team that included his former teammate Pelé. Zagal also led Brazil to the 1974 finals, without Pelé.
As an assistant, he won the Cup in 1994 when the national team was led by Carlos Alberto Perreira.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva declared three days of national mourning in the country on Saturday.
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