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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.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Júlio Herculano Pedroso Mazzei[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 27 August 1930 | ||
| Place of birth | Guaiçara, São Paulo, Brazil | ||
| Date of death | 10 May 2009 (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]
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