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{{Infobox football biography
| name                = Moacir Barbosa
| image               = File:Vasco45 barbosa.jpg
| caption             = Barbosa in 1945
| fullname            = Moacir Barbosa do Nascimento
| height              = {{height|m=1.74|precision=0}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Brazil - Moacir Barbosa Nascimento - Profile with news, career statistics and history |url=https://int.soccerway.com/players/moacir-barbosa-nascimento/108416/ |accessdate=3 August 2011 }}</ref>
| birth_date          = {{birth date|df=yes|1921|03|27}}
| birth_place = [[Campinas, São Paulo]], [[Brazil]]
| death_date          = {{death date and age|df=yes|2000|04|07|1921|03|27}}
| death_place = [[Praia Grande]], [[Brazil]]
| position            = [[Goalkeeper (association football)|Goalkeeper]]
| youthyears1         = 1931–1940
| youthclubs1         = [[Campinas FC|Campinas]]
| years1              = 1940–1942
| clubs1              = [[ADCI-SP]]
| caps1               = 35
| goals1              = 0
| years2              = 1942–1945
| clubs2              = [[Clube Atlético Ypiranga|Ypiranga-SP]]
| caps2               = 56
| goals2              = 0
| years3              = 1945–1955
| clubs3              = [[CR Vasco da Gama|Vasco da Gama]]
| caps3               = 532
| goals3              = 6
| years4              = 1955–1956
| clubs4              = → [[Bonsucesso Futebol Clube|Bonsucesso]] (loan)
| caps4               = 30
| goals4              = 0
| years5              = 1956–1958
| clubs5              = [[Santa Cruz Futebol Clube|Santa Cruz]]
| caps5               = 34
| goals5              = 0
| years6              = 1958–1960
| clubs6              = [[CR Vasco da Gama|Vasco da Gama]]
| caps6               = 151
| goals6              = 0
| years7              = 1960–1962
| clubs7              = [[Campo Grande Atlético Clube|Campo Grande]]
| caps7               = 49
| goals7              = 0
| totalcaps           = 887
| totalgoals          = 6
| nationalyears1      = 1945–1959 
| nationalteam1       = [[Brazil national football team|Brazil]]
| nationalcaps1       = 20              
| nationalgoals1      = 1
|medaltemplates =
{{MedalSport|Men's [[Association football|Football]]}}
{{MedalCountry|{{fb|BRA|1889}}}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[FIFA World Cup]]}}
{{Medal|RU|[[1950 FIFA World Cup|1950 Brazil]]|}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Copa América]]}}
{{Medal|W|[[1949 South American Championship|1949 Brazil]]|}}
{{Medal|RU|[[1953 South American Championship|1953 Peru]]|}}
{{Medal|3rd|[[1959 South American Championship (Ecuador)|1959 Ecuador]]|}}
}}
'''Moacir Barbosa Nascimento''' (27 March [[1921]] – 7 April [[2000]]) was a [[Brazil]]ian [[Football (soccer)|football]] player. He played for  the [[Brazil national football team|Brazil national team]]. He was regarded as one of the best [[Goalkeeper|goalkeepers]] in the world in the 1940s and 1950s. He was known for not wearing [[Glove|gloves]] because he wanted to feel the ball with his bare hands. He was a confident and elastic goalkeeper with an excellent sense of [[placement]], who was never afraid to dive into the feet of his opponents. Although he won many [[Trophy|trophies]], he is most remembered for the [[Maracanazo]], when [[host]] country Brazil lost to [[Uruguay]] in the [[1950 FIFA World Cup Final]]. He died of a [[Myocardial infarction|heart attack]] at the age of 79 and was buried in the Praia Grande Municipal Cemetery in [[São Paulo]].

==Club career==
He started his career with the small club ADCI and in 1942 made the move to [[CA Ypiranga]], a mid-sized player from São Paulo. There he was noticed by [[Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama|Vasco da Gama]] and went there for ten years in 1945. With this club he won the [[Campeonato Carioca]] six times, once the Torneio Rio-São Paulo and in 1948 the Campeonato Sul-Americano de Campeões, which is considered the first edition of the Copa Libertadores. After his time at Vasco, he played for [[Bonsucesso]] and Santa Cruz and then back for Vasco. He ended his career at [[Campo Grande Atlético Clube|Campo Grande]].

==International career==
Barbosa made his [[debut]] for the Brazilian national team in 1945 during the [[Copa América]] where Brazil finished as [[Runner-up|runners-up]]. He was selected to play for the [[Roca Cup]] and he won the Cup, and he was selected to play for 1947 and 1950 Copa Rio Branco and Brazil won. Barbosa also won the South American Championship in 1949. In the final, Brazil beat [[Paraguay]] 7-0. At the World Cup in his own country a year later, the title was decided via a group stage. The third game between Brazil and Uruguay was decisive.  Brazil needed a draw to become world champions and was a huge favorite. Not only because they were the home country, but also because they scored much faster than the Uruguayans. [[Friaça]] gave the Brazilians the lead, but a badly playing [[Bigode]] was dribbling past twice by [[Alcides Ghiggia]], who then also passed goalkeeper Barbosa. The loss was a national drama and Barbosa was one of the scapegoats and he was blamed along with [[Bigode]] and [[Juvenal Amarijo|Juvenal]]. He would carry this drama with him for the rest of his life. In an interview shortly before his death in 2000, he stated that the maximum prison sentence in Brazil is 30 years, but that he was sentenced to 50 years for something he was not even responsible for. In 1993 the Brazilian federation banned him from commenting on an international match and he was also once sent off from a training session for the national team because he could bring bad luck.

==Honours==
===Club===
;Vasco da Gama
*[[Campeonato Sul-Americano de Campeões]]: 1948
*[[Torneio Rio-São Paulo]]: 1958
*[[Campeonato Carioca]]: 1945, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1958                                                                                           
*[[Torneio Intercontinental Octogonal Rivadavia Correa Meyer]]: 1953
*[[Torneio Quadrangular do Rio]]: 1953
*[[Torneio Internacional de Santiago de Chile]]: 1953

===International===
;Brazil
*[[Copa América]]: [[1949 South American Championship|1949]]
*[[Copa Roca]]: 1945
*[[Copa Río Branco]]: 1947, 1950
*[[FIFA World Cup]] Runner-up: [[1950 FIFA World Cup|1950]]
*[[Panamerican Championship]]: 1952
*[[Taça Oswaldo Cruz]]: 1950, 1955
*[[Copa Río Branco]] Runner-up: 1946, 1948
*[[Copa América]] Runner-up: [[1945 South American Championship|1945]], [[1946 South American Championship|1946]], [[1953 South American Championship|1953]]
*[[Copa América]] Third Place: [[1959 South American Championship (Ecuador)|1959]]

===Individual===
*[[IFFHS|IFFHS Brazilian Keeper of the 20th Century]]: (3rd place)<ref>[http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/iffhs-century.html IFFHS' Century Elections]</ref>
*[[IFFHS|IFFHS South American Keeper of the 20th Century]]: (11th place)<ref>[http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/iffhs-century.html IFFHS' Century Elections]</ref>
*[[FIFA World Cup]]: All-Star Team: [[1950 FIFA World Cup|1950]] (reserve)

== References ==
{{Reflist}}
{{1950 FIFA World Cup Team of the Tournament}}
{{Brazil squad 1945 South American Championship}}
{{Brazil squad 1946 South American Championship}}
{{Brazil squad 1949 South American Championship}}
{{Brazil Squad 1950 World Cup}}
{{Brazil squad 1953 South American Championship}}
{{Brazil squad 1959 South American Championship (Ecuador)}}

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[[Category:Brazilian association football goalkeepers]]
[[Category:Footballers from Campinas]]