Preguinho

{{short description|Brazilian footballer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2024}}

{{Portuguese name|second=|suffix=Neto}}

{{Infobox football biography

|name = Preguinho

|image = Ef preguinho.jpg

|image_size = 200

|caption = Preguinho in the Fluminense

|fullname = João Coelho Neto

|birth_date = {{birth date|1905|2|8|df=y}}

|birth_place = Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

|death_date = {{death date and age|1979|10|1|1905|2|8|df=y}}

|death_place = Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

|height = {{height|m=1.76}}

|position = Forward

|years1 = 1925–1938 |clubs1= Fluminense |caps1= 174 |goals1= 129

|nationalyears1 = 1930 |nationalteam1 = Brazil |nationalcaps1= 3 |nationalgoals1= 4

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|medaltemplates =

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João Coelho Neto, known more commonly as Preguinho (8 February 1905 – 1 October 1979), was a Brazilian footballer who played as a striker.

Son of Brazilian writer Coelho Neto, Preguinho was born in Rio de Janeiro on 8 February 1905. He played from 1925–1938 for Fluminense{{cite web|publisher=Folha Online|title=Especial - 2006 - Copa|url=http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/especial/2006/copa/todos_os_brasileiros-1930.shtml|language=Portuguese|date=2005-12-09}} and scored 184 goals.

For Brazil he participated in the 1930 FIFA World Cup and was the first captain of the Brazil national team, scoring the first goal ever from Brazil in a FIFA World Cup in a match against Yugoslavia, and two further goals in a match with Bolivia.{{FIFA player|63823}}

He died at the age of 74 on 29 September 1979.{{citation needed|date=February 2014}} In his honour, Fluminense dedicated a statue. A Brazilian TV-programme of his life was produced by Carlos Niemeyer for Canal 100 and directed by Carlos Leonam and Oswaldo Caldeira.

International goals

Brazil's goal tally first

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! # !! Date !! Venue !! Opponent !! Score !! Result !! Competition

align=center| 1.14 July 1930Estadio Gran Parque Central, Montevideo, Uruguay{{fb|Kingdom of Yugoslavia}}align=center| 1–2align=center| 1–2rowspan=3|1930 FIFA World Cup
align=center| 2.rowspan=2|20 July 1930rowspan=2|Estadio Centenario, Montevideo, Uruguayrowspan=2|{{fb|BOL}}align=center| 2–0rowspan=2 align=center| 4–0
align=center| 3.align=center| 4–0
align=center| 4.17 August 1930Estádio das Laranjeiras, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil{{fb|USA}}align=center| 3–2align=center| 4–3Friendly

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