Mário Vianna Explained

Mário Vianna
Fullname:Mário Gonçalves Vianna
Birth Date:6 September 1902
Years1:1946–1957
League1:CBF
Role1:Referee
Internationalyears1:1950–1954
Confederation1:FIFA
Internationalrole1:Referee

Mário Vianna (6 September 1902 – 16 October 1989) was a Brazilian football referee. He is nominated as an official referee list of the 1950 FIFA World Cup and 1954 FIFA World Cup.[1]

Personal life

Mário Vianna was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1902. He was a police officer and began to follow the Campeonato Carioca football matches in the 1930s. Due to his imposition of respect and his knowledge of the game, he was invited to act as a referee in 1943. He was successful refereeing his first matches, gaining notoriety until refereeing the main matches of Rio de Janeiro. Thus, he became one of the three Brazilian referees to referee the 1950 World Cup, alongside Mário Gardelli and Alberto da Gama Malcher. At the age of 51, he refereed again in the 1954 World Cup. He also worked as a sportscaster, and was the only broadcaster to narrate the game between Brazil and Hungary (Batalha de Berna).[2] [3]

In the 60s, after retiring as a referee, he became a sports commentator for Rádio Globo, alongside big names in Brazilian sports chronicle such as João Saldanha.

Mário Vianna died in 1989 in Rio de Janeiro, at age of 87, victim of pneumonia.

Controversies

He was responsible for the only sending off of Domingos da Guia. After the Switzerland-Italy game in 1954, he confessed years later that he punched striker Giampiero Boniperti, after being questioned by him.[4]

At the final whistle of the Brazilian elimination against Hungary, Mário, who worked as a narrator in the game, started a conspiracy theory which said that the English referee Arthur Ellis had been bought by the Communist Party of Hungary.[3] [5] In 1957, three years after the incident, Vianna refereed a friendly match between Honvéd, with Ferenc Puskas, and Flamengo, in Budapest.[6]

Matches at the FIFA World Cup

Altogether Vianna had two participations in World Cups as referee, and two as assistant referee:[7] [8] [9]

Main referee

Team 1ResultTeam 2Edition
3–11950 FIFA World Cup
2–11954 FIFA World Cup

Assistant referee

Team 1ResultTeam 2Edition
8–01950 FIFA World Cup
1–01954 FIFA World Cup

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mário Vianna, ex-árbitro e comentarista . UOL . Terceiro Tempo . 29 November 2022 . pt.
  2. Web site: Mário Viana: o narrador esportivo e único árbitro brasileiro no Mundial da Suíça . emcimadolance.com.br . 29 September 2022 . 20 December 2022 . pt.
  3. Web site: Relembre a incrível "Batalha de Berna" em 1954 . CBF (official site) . 28 May 2015 . 20 December 2022 . pt.
  4. Web site: 51 dias para a Copa do Mundo: aos 51 anos, Mário Vianna foi o árbitro brasileiro mais velho a atuar em uma Copa . 90min . 30 September 2022 . pt.
  5. Web site: Vianna, l'arbitro che diede dei ladri alla Fifa . Gente di Calcio . 13 July 2015 . it.
  6. Web site: Chamem o Mário Vianna! . UOL . Juca Kfouri . 8 March 2022 . 20 December 2022 . pt.
  7. Web site: Árbitros brasileiros que apitaram em Copas do Mundo: Mário Vianna . agazeta.com.br . 9 June 2022 . 20 December 2022 . pt.
  8. Web site: Statistics for MáRIO GONCALVES VIANNA . worldreferee.com . 30 September 2022.
  9. Web site: Mário Gonçalves Vianna . eu-football.info . 30 September 2022.