Carlinhos

Who is Carlinhos?

Luís Carlos Nunes da Silva, nicknamed Carlinhos, played for Flamengo between 1958 and 1969. Because of his elegant football and his thin voice, he was known as "The Violin". In Flamengo, he won the 1961 Torneio Rio-São Paulo and twice the Rio State Championship.

Carlinhos was capped for the Brazilian national team several times in the 1960s.

He was one of the few players to receive the Belfort Duarte Trophy from the Brazilian Football Confederation. The award is given to the players who have never received a red card.

His career as a manager started in 1983, when he coached Flamengo for five matches. Four years later, he was back at Flamengo when former coach Antônio Lopes was fired for the bad results in the 1987 Rio State Championship finals. At that time, Flamengo's squad had Brazilian star Renato Gaúcho, veteran players, and young ones, that had just came from the youth squad. Zico, the main star of the club, still recovering from several knee surgeries, wasn't at his top form. Carlinhos, with a little luck and a lot of knowledge of the ways of the football, mixed veterans and newcomers to create a very competitive team, that won the 1987 Copa União.