Playing position Role Footballer Name Sebastiao da | 1969–1970 America-SP Years Team Position Forward | |
Full name Sebastiao Miranda da Silva Filho Date of birth (1952-02-26) 26 February 1952 (age 63) Place of birth Bebedouro, Sao Paulo, Brazil | ||
Sebastião Miranda da Silva Filho, usually called Mirandinha, (born 26 February 1952) is a former Brazilian footballer who was included in the 1974 FIFA World Cup squad of the Brazil national football team.
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Club career
Mirandinha spent his early career in Brazil. In 1978, São Paulo sent him to the Tampa Bay Rowdies mid-way through the North American Soccer League season. That season, the Rowdies went to the championship where they fell to the New York Cosmos. Mirandinha scored the lone Rowdies goal in the 3–1 Soccer Bowl '78 loss. He also co-led the team in goals for the Rowdies' brief winter indoor campaign of 1979, scoring five times in five matches. He began the 1979 season in Tampa Bay before being traded to the Memphis Rogues on 7 June 1979.
Other clubs may have included ABC-RN, Guará-DF, Douradense-MS, União de Mogi-SP, Saad-SP, Independente de Limeira
National team
Mirandinha earned four caps with the Brazilian national team at the 1974 FIFA World Cup, scoring no goals and accumulating one yellow card in a first round match versus Zaire. His other appearances included once as a starter in a 0–0 tie against Scotland in the first round, and twice more as a second-half substitute in losses to Netherlands in the second round and to Poland in the third place match. He was also an unused substitute in three additional matches in the tournament.