Túlio Maravilha

Túlio Humberto Pereira Costa (born 2 June 1969), sometimes simply referred as Túlio or Túlio Maravilha ("Wonder Túlio"), is a former Brazilian international footballer who played as a forward. He played for many Brazilian club teams, such as Goiás, Botafogo, Corinthians, Vitória, Fluminense, Cruzeiro and Vila Nova and several lower-division teams in Brazil. In Europe, he had short-lived career, playing for Sion and Újpest.

Túlio
Personal information
Full name Túlio Humberto Pereira Costa
Date of birth (1969-06-02) 2 June 1969
Place of birth Goiânia, Brazil
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[1]
Playing position(s) Striker
Club information
Current team
 Botafogo
Number 7
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1988–1992 Goiás 88 (48)
1992–1993 Sion 11 (3)
1994–1996 Botafogo 73 (55)
1997 Corinthians 33 (14)
1997 Vitória 24 (9)
1998 Fluminense 22 (10)
1998 Botafogo 24 (10)
1999–2001 Vila Nova 21 (27)
2000 São Caetano 23 (30)
2000 Botafogo 14 (4)
2001–2002 Santa Cruz 7 (1)
2002 Újpest 10 (4)
2003 Brasiliense 21 (11)
2003 Goianiense 1 (3)
2003 Tupy 2 (5)
2004 Wilstermann 16 (24)
2004 Anapolina 9 (1)
2005 Volta Redonda 16 (12)
2005 Juventude 11 (2)
2005 Al-Shabab 0 (0)
2005–2006 Volta Redonda 18 (20)
2006 Fast 10 (10)
2006 Canedense 23 (25)
2007 Itauçuense 7 (7)
2008 Vila Nova 37 (24)
2009 Itumbiara 22 (14)
2009 Goiânia 10 (5)
2009–2011 Botafogo-DF 5 (1)
2011 → Barras (loan) 6 (4)
2011 Canedense 1 (0)
2011 Bonsucesso 9 (3)
2012 CSE 3 (4)
2012 Tanabi 5 (1)
2012 Botafogo 0 (0)
2013 Vilavelhense 5 (5)
2014 Araxá 1 (1)
2018 Atlético Carioca 2 (0)
2018–2019 Taboão da Serra 4 (1)
Total 594 (398)
National team‡
1990–1995 Brazil 15 (13)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20 May 2009
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 20 May 2009

His best years were while he was at Botafogo, where he was three times the Brazilian top scorer (1989, 1994 and 1995) and won the 1995 Campeonato Brasileiro. After this he became a journeyman and never played for the same team for more than one season at most.

He scored a controversial goal against Universidad Católica in a Copa Libertadores match. Having already eliminated the goalkeeper from the play, Tulio stopped short of the goal line with the ball, turned around and flicked the ball up, tapping it in with a heel kick. He named the stylish goal "Tuleta" after his name.

According to himself, he reached the mark of thousand goals in 2014, at 44 years old. This number was only reached, however, by counting goals in friendlies, commemorative games and amateur football.[2]

International career

Tulio played 15 games with Brazilian national team and scored 13 goals. The team never lost a match with Tulio on the pitch.

With the national team, Túlio was famous for scoring a controversial equalizer against Argentina in the quarter-finals of the 1995 Copa América in Uruguay in which he committed a deliberate handball. However, Túlio never played again for the Brazilian national team.

Personal life

His son, Tulio Humberto Pereira da Costa Filho, was born on the same date as his father.

Honours

Club
Goiás
Botafogo
Corinthians
Cruzeiro
Vila Nova
São Caetano
Újpest
  • Hungarian Cup: 2002
Brasiliense
Jorge Wilstermann
  • Copa Aerosur: 2004
Volta Redonda
Itauçuense

Individual

Records
  • Goiás all-time leading scorer with 187 goals.
  • Vila Nova all-time leading scorer with 99 goals.
  • Holds the record for most goals scored in a single Serie C, with 27 goals in 2007.
  • Six time leading scorer of Campeonato Brasileiro, including Serie A, B and C.
  • He is the only player to be a leading scorer in three different levels in Brazilian football system (Serie A, B and C).
  • He was the Brazilian season scorer in 1995 (67 goals) and 2007 (50 goals).
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References
  1. "Túlio Maravilha" (in Portuguese). Pelé.net. Retrieved January 6, 2009.
  2. "A thousand times Tulio: The man who never gave up". EuroSport. February 12, 2014. Retrieved March 10, 2014.

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