Martim Francisco

Martim Francisco

Martim Francisco as of 1954
Personal information
Full name	Martim Francisco Ribeiro de Andrada
Date of birth	(1928-02-21)21 February 1928
Place of birth	Barbacena, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Date of death	22 June 1982(1982-06-22) (aged 54)
Place of death	Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Youth career
Years	Team
ca. – 1941–?	Olympic Barbacena (MG)
also	Juventus (Barbacena, MG)
Managerial career
1951	Villa Nova
1952	Siderúrgica
1953–1954	Atlético Mineiro
1954–1956	America
1956–1957	Vasco da Gama
1958	Internacional
1958–1960	Athletic Bilbao
1961	Vasco da Gama
1961–1962	Corinthians
1962	Comercial-SP
1963	Villa Nova
1963	Cruzeiro
1964	Atlético Mineiro
1965	Bangu
1964–1965	Elche
1965	Real Betis
1966–1967	Deportivo Logroñés
1967	Bangu
1967	→ Houston Stars (loan)
1968	Valeriodoce
1969	América Mineiro
1970	Rodoviária
1971–1972	Villa Nova
1973	CRB
1973	Vasco da Gama de Passos
1976	Goiânia
1976–1977	Villa Nova-MG
1977	Guarani de Divinópolis
1979–1980	Gama
1981	Tiradentes-DF

Martim Francisco Ribeiro de Andrada (21 February 1928^[a] – 22 June 1982) was a Brazilian association football coach. He is widely credited with the invention of the 4–2–4 formation when guiding his first club, the Villa Nova AC of Nova Lima, to the State Championship of Minas Gerais in 1951. He won further state championships with Atlético Mineiro of Belo Horizonte in 1953, CR Vasco da Gama of Rio de Janeiro in 1956 and SE Gama of Brasília in 1979. Other clubs he coached include Corinthians, Cruzeiro, America FC of Rio de Janeiro and Athletic Bilbao in Spain. With Bangu AC he won the State Champions' Cup of 1967.

Martim Francisco, scion of a distinguished Brazilian family – his ancestors include José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva, considered the "Patriarch of Brazilian Independence", and many other lustrous personalities – studied psychology and law.^[1] An accident prevented him from playing football beyond the youth level and he never acquired a formal coaching diploma. In 1954 it was reported that he had 650 books about football, of which he considered El preparador técnico from Spain and Tácticas y técnicas from Argentina as the most important ones. In his opinion, the WM of Herbert Chapman and the third defender of Izidor Kürschner were the basis of all tactics. He considered from early on the intermingling of club officials with the work of the coach as a major problem. His bynames included primeiro lorde dos gramados brasileiros ("First Lord of the Brazilian fields"), professor and cientista do futebol ("Scientist of Football"). He died aged 54 from alcohol related illness.

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