José Carlos Bauer (21 November 1925 â 4 February 2007), commonly known as Bauer, was a Brazilian football player and manager who played as a midfielder.
Born in São Paulo, Bauer was the son of a Swiss father and an African-Brazilian mother. He was normally a defensive midfielder.
Bauer played for São Paulo and Botafogo. He won six São Paulo State Championships (1943, 1945, 1946, 1948, 1949 and 1953).
He played 29 matches for the Brazil national team, scoring five goals. He won the 1949 Copa América and participated at two FIFA World Cup finals, in 1950 and 1954. His last match in this tournament was the Battle of Berne.
After he retired he managed Ferroviária de Araraquara. In a trip to Ferroviária in Mozambique, Bauer saw a young Eusébio. Impressed with him, Bauer spoke with his former coach in São Paulo, Béla Guttmann, about Eusébio. Guttmann, who was coaching Benfica at the time, brought him to the Estádio da Luz.
Bauer died on 4 February 2007, in São Paulo.
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