Túlio Maravilha

Túlio Humberto Pereira Costa (born 2 June 1969), sometimes simply referred as Túlio or Túlio Maravilha ("Wonder Túlio"), is a former Brazilian international footballer who played as a forward. He played for many Brazilian club teams, such as Goiás, Botafogo, Corinthians, Vitória, Fluminense, Cruzeiro and Vila Nova and several lower-division teams in Brazil. In Europe, he had short-lived career, playing for Sion and Újpest.

In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Pereira and the second or paternal family name is Costa.
Túlio Maravilha
Personal information
Full name Túlio Humberto Pereira Costa
Date of birth (1969-06-02) 2 June 1969
Place of birth Goiânia, Brazil
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)[1]
Position(s) Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1988–1992 Goiás 88 (48)
1992–1993 Sion 11 (3)
1994–1996 Botafogo 73 (55)
1997 Corinthians 33 (14)
1997 Vitória 24 (9)
1998 Fluminense 22 (10)
1998 Botafogo 24 (10)
1999–2001 Vila Nova 21 (27)
2000 São Caetano 23 (30)
2000 Botafogo 14 (4)
2001–2002 Santa Cruz 7 (1)
2002 Újpest 10 (4)
2003 Brasiliense 21 (11)
2003 Atlético Goianiense 1 (3)
2003 Tupy 2 (5)
2004 Jorge Wilstermann 16 (24)
2004 Anapolina 9 (1)
2005 Volta Redonda 16 (12)
2005 Juventude 11 (2)
2005 Al-Shabab 0 (0)
2005–2006 Volta Redonda 18 (20)
2006 Fast 10 (10)
2006 Canedense 23 (25)
2007 Itauçu 7 (7)
2008 Vila Nova 37 (24)
2009 Itumbiara 22 (14)
2009 Goiânia 10 (5)
2009–2011 Botafogo-DF 5 (1)
2011 Barras 6 (4)
2011 Canedense 1 (0)
2011 Bonsucesso 9 (3)
2012 CSE 3 (4)
2012 Tanabi 5 (1)
2012 Botafogo 0 (0)
2013 Vilavelhense 5 (5)
2014 Araxá 1 (1)
2018 Atlético Carioca 2 (0)
2018–2019 Taboão da Serra 4 (1)
Total 594 (398)
International career‡
1990–1995 Brazil 15 (13)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20 May 2009
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 20 May 2009

His best years were while he was at Botafogo, where he was three times the Brazilian top scorer (1989, 1994 and 1995) and won the 1995 Campeonato Brasileiro. After this he became a journeyman and never played for the same team for more than one season at most.

According to himself, he reached the mark of thousand goals in 2014, at 44 years old. This number was only reached, however, by counting goals in friendlies, commemorative games and amateur football.[2]

International career

Tulio played 15 games with Brazil national team and scored 13 goals. The team never lost a match with Tulio on the pitch.

With the national team, Túlio was famous for scoring a controversial equalizer against Argentina in the quarter-finals of the 1995 Copa América in Uruguay in which he committed a deliberate handball.[3] Túlio played one more time for the Brazil national team, scoring two gols against Colombia, at a friendly match in Manaus-AM (Vivaldo Lima stadium).[4]

Personal life

His son, Tulio Humberto Pereira da Costa Filho, was born on the same date as his father.

Honours

Goiás

Botafogo

Corinthians

Cruzeiro

Vila Nova

  • Campeonato Goiano: 2001

São Caetano

Újpest

Brasiliense

Jorge Wilstermann

  • Copa Aerosur: 2004

Volta Redonda

Itauçu[5]

Individual

Records
  • Goiás all-time leading scorer with 187 goals.
  • Vila Nova all-time leading scorer with 99 goals.
  • Holds the record for most goals scored in a single Série C, with 27 goals in 2007.
  • Six time leading scorer of Campeonato Brasileiro, including Série A, B and C.
  • He is the only player to be a leading scorer in three different levels in Brazilian football system (Série A, B and C).
  • He was the Brazilian season scorer in 1995 (67 goals) and 2007 (50 goals).

See also

References
  1. Strack-Zimmermann, Benjamin. "Túlio Maravilha (Player)". www.national-football-teams.com. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  2. "A thousand times Tulio: The man who never gave up". EuroSport. 12 February 2014. Retrieved 10 March 2014.
  3. "Túlio prefere seu "gol de mão", mas parabeniza peruano: "Foi um artista"". 13 June 2016.
  4. "Brasil 3 x 1 Colômbia - Amistoso 1995". YouTube.
  5. "Artilheiro garante a liderança do Itauçu na Fase Final" (in Portuguese). Federação Goiana de Futebol. Retrieved 28 March 2021.

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