Jair da Costa
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Jair in 1963 | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 9 July 1940 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 26 April 2025 (aged 84) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Osasco, São Paulo, Brazil | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Right winger | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1960–1962 | Portuguesa | ||||||||||||||||
| 1962–1967 | Inter Milan | 119 | (39) | ||||||||||||||
| 1967–1968 | Roma | 23 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 1968–1972 | Inter Milan | 80 | (14) | ||||||||||||||
| 1972–1974 | Santos | 19 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| 1975 | Windsor Star | ||||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1962 | Brazil | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Jair da Costa ([ʒaˈiʁ da ˈkɔsta]; 9 July 1940 – 26 April 2025), known simply as Jair, was a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a right winger. Apart from playing in Brazil, he played professionally in clubs in Italy, where his teams won the European Cup and the Intercontinental Cup several times, as well as in Canada. Internationally, he briefly played for the Brazil national team. He was a member of the Brazilian team that won the 1962 FIFA World Cup, but he did not play in the World Cup.