Quarentinha

Waldir Cardoso Lebrêgo, nicknamed Quarentinha, was born in Belém, Pará, on September 15, 1933. A left-footed center forward, he started at Paysandu and played for Vitória, where he won the Bahia Championship and was the state's top scorer in 1953. Signed by Botafogo, he lived the most remarkable phase of his career at the Rio club. Between 1954 and 1964, he scored 313 goals in 442 matches and became the greatest scorer in Botafogo's history. He won the Rio de Janeiro Championship in 1957, 1961, and 1962, won the Rio-São Paulo Tournament in 1962, and finished as the top scorer of the Rio de Janeiro Championship for three consecutive years, from 1958 to 1960. For the Brazilian National Team, between 1959 and 1963, he scored 17 goals in 17 matches, including unofficial games. In official matches, he scored 15 goals in 14 matches. After Botafogo, he played in Colombia for Unión Magdalena, Deportivo Cali, and Junior Barranquilla, and ended his playing career in Brazil. Later, he coached Almirante Barroso and the youth categories at River Plate. He died in Rio de Janeiro on February 11, 1996, at age 62.