Candango football has always been one of the weakest in the country, as the Federal District did not have political representation, until 1986. When the then Metropolitan Football Federation started its professional championships, in 1976, the ball played here was better than the than those from Acre, Amapá and Rondônia. It couldn’t be worse, as those were much poorer. As the disputes progressed and the courage of some businessmen to invest in local clubs (in fact, teams), things improved and the Brasilian club reached the same level as that of poor states in the Northeast, such as Piauí and Maranhão.
With the arrival of political representation in 1986, this football “threatened” to progress further. Although he was not a politician, but an eternal lover of football, the football director (and does everything at Taguatinga Esporte Clube), Wander Abdala, a former Defelê player, in the 1950s/60s, managed, with the governor of DF, José Aparecido de Oliveira, the loan from professor Nílton Santos, who ran the football schools for children and teenagers maintained by the Department of Physical Education, Sports and Recreation-DEFER. As he was a public servant, “Enciclopédia” worked for the kids in the morning and trained Taguatinga in the afternoon.
In his presentation to the group of Taguá players, “Professor Nílton”, as the boys called him, used his categorical experience as two-time world champion-1958/1962 and other national achievements alongside Garrincha, Didi, Quarentinha, Amarildo and Zagallo, especially professional behavior. At that time, Candango “professional football” players were so amateur to the point of swearing at the coach when they were substituted. But, as the coaches had recruited them in football camps and they were old friends, that was it. Nílton Santos, in his presentation, spoke more as an “educator” than as a coach. He taught so many lessons, until he reached the need for athletes not to have dental outbreaks. Big problem, as Taguá didn’t have the money to treat the teeth of all its players. The team was maintained much more by the passion of its president, Froylan Pinto, a construction businessman and former Botafogo athlete from Salvador, where he played under the nickname Foy.
The 1987 Brasiliense Professional Football Championship then began. Wander Abdala turned to one side, so that the players didn’t lack anything, and Froylan Pinto spent what he could, getting scolded by his wife who didn’t accept the lack of orange in her dessert, and never for Taguatinguense players after training.
“Professor Nílton” was a guy with a soft voice, who had managed to tame his compadre Mané Garrincha, who was always up to no good. He never reprimanded a player, he never changed. He looked more like Dom José Nílton, archbishop of Brasília, with his gentleness and who was a fan of Botafoguense full-back Marinho Chagas. In the “Águia Branca” team, it only had peladeiros from the hard clay fields of the satellite cities of Brasília. Even so, he managed to bring a minimum standard of play to the boys. And he left behind teams that were more or less the same as his, such as, for example, Sobradinho, Gama and Guará. With that, Nílton Santos led Taguatinga to the decision of Candangão-1987, against Brasília Esporte Clube, which had two athletes coming from other states, goalkeeper Vanderlei, from Goiás, and striker Da Costa, ex-Vasco da Gama. Taguatinga had already been Candango champion, in 1981, when Froylan brought a few people from “small” Rio football teams and mixed them with midfielder Péricles, one of the biggest names in the history of DF football, and defenders Emerson, former -Brasília, and Décio, ex-Ceub. But, after that, after being teased so much by his wife, due to his spending on football, Froylan was unable to hold the ball, and Taguá lost its “stars” and declined.
The final of the Candango-1987 Championship was on Saturday, August 23, at the old and rebuilt Mané Garrincha. The amateur Taguá players did not deny being satisfied with what they had already achieved. Many even felt like champions. Nílton Santos, however, despite being so soft-spoken, called the group to the corner and demanded attitude from them. Even so, Brasília opened 2 x 0, with Erasmo opening the account, 18 minutes into the first half, and Ney, 2 minutes into the second half. The calm, calm “Enciclópedia”, perhaps for the first time in his life as a coach – he had previously coached Galícia and Vitória, both from Bahia, Bonsucesso-RJ and São Paulo from the Rio Grande do Sul city of Rio Grande – went to the edge of the lawn and He started shouting at his boys. Judge Edson Rezende de Oliveira saw nothing. The screams were worth a goal from defender Zinha, in the 14th minute of the final stage. And he couldn’t get anything else out of that very amateur team. And, with Brasília (champion), 2 x 1 Taguatinga, he ended his coaching career.
Brasília, coached by Raimundinho (Antônio Fabiano Ferreira), played with: Vanderlei; Oliveira, Remo (Filgueiras), Quidão and Nescau; Marco Antônio, Josimar and Bolão; Erasmo, Da Costa and Ney (Darlã). Taguatinga lined up: Elvis; Pedrinho, Bilzão, Zinha and Roosevelt; Bilzinho, Da Silva and Marquinhos (Dorival); Agnaldo, Genivaldo (Newmar) and Marcelo, a group of guys who were two points behind the champions, in a game without public and income announced, but which were small, without covering the costs of that final.
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