Júlio Mazzei

Júlio Herculano Pedroso,^[2] known as Júlio Mazzei, was a Brazilian soccer coach. He is perhaps best known for bringing Pele to New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League.

Júlio Mazzei

Personal information
Full name	Júlio Herculano Pedroso Mazzei[1]
Date of birth	(1930-08-27)27 August 1930
Place of birth	Guaiçara, São Paulo, Brazil
Date of death	10 May 2009(2009-05-10) (aged 78)
Place of death	Santos, São Paulo, Brazil
Managerial career
Years	Team
1980	New York Cosmos
1982–1983	New York Cosmos

He was a Physical Education teacher trained in São Carlos^[3][4] and a coach for Santos in the 1960s. He established a new type of football training, using new methods, such as Circuit Training, created in 1958.^[5]

With Santos he won the Campeonato Paulista in 1967, 1968, 1969 and 1973, the Recopa Sudamericana in 1968 and the Torneio Roberto Gomes Pedrosa in 1968.

in 1965, he was a coach of the Brazil B national team.

He coached the Cosmos to the NASL title with a 1–0 victory over the Seattle Sounders in Soccer Bowl '82.

He died in 2009, aged 78.^[6]