Fausto dos Santos (28 January 1905 – 29 March 1939), sometimes known as just Fausto, was a

football (soccer) Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

player, considered one of the best defensive midfielders of

Vasco da Gama Vasco da Gama ( , ; – 24 December 1524), was a Portuguese explorer and nobleman who was the Portuguese discovery of the sea route to India, first European to reach India by sea. Da Gama's first voyage (1497–1499) was the first to link ...

of the first half of past century. At the time, he and Jaguaré, another famous player at this era, was attempted to be loaned to

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. Popularly known as "Fausto, The Black Wonder" he was a pioneer to vindicate labor laws to footballers since the professionalization of Brazilian football in the beginning of the 1930s. CR Vasco da Gama 1929

He also played for other clubs, such as Bangu, Nacional of Montevideo and

Flamengo Clube de Regatas do Flamengo (; ), more commonly referred to as simply Flamengo, is a Brazilian multi sports club based in Rio de Janeiro, in the neighborhood of Gávea. It was founded and named after the Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Flamengo n ...

. He died at the age of 34 of

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Honours

Club

Campeonato Carioca The Campeonato Carioca (Carioca Championship), officially known as Campeonato Estadual do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro State Championship), also commonly known as the Cariocão, is the top-flight professional state football league in the Br ...

(2): :Vasco da Gama: 1929, 1934 *

Copa Catalunya The Copa Catalunya () is a knockout competition organised by the Catalan Football Federation for football clubs in the Catalonia autonomous community of Spain. History Between 1903 and 1940, it was known as the ''Catalan football championship ...

(1): :Barcelona: 1932

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* * 1905 births 1939 deaths Brazilian men's footballers Brazil men's international footballers CR Vasco da Gama players CR Flamengo footballers Bangu Atlético Clube players Club Nacional de Football players FC Barcelona players 20th-century deaths from tuberculosis Tuberculosis deaths in Minas Gerais Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Uruguay Expatriate men's footballers in Uruguay Expatriate men's footballers in Spain Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland 1930 FIFA World Cup players SC Young Fellows Juventus players Men's association football midfielders Footballers from Rio de Janeiro (city) 20th-century Brazilian sportsmen Brazilian expatriate men's footballers {{Brazil-footy-midfielder-1900s-stub