Claudio André Mergen Taffarel - Century of International Appearances (original) (raw)

The outstanding Brazilian 'keeper, who obtained 101 international caps with his National Team, has entered the symbolic but exclusive circle of players with a Century of Caps. All matches are friendlies unless stated otherwise.

Caps Date Venue Opponent Score Competition 1 7/ 7/88 Melbourne Australia 1-0 Bicentenary Cup 2 10/ 7/88 Melbourne Argentina 0-0 Bicentenary Cup 3 13/ 7/88 Melbourne Saudi Arabia 4-1 Bicentenary Cup 4 17/ 7/88 Sydney Australia 2-0 Bicentenary Cup 5 28/ 7/88 Oslo Norway 1-1
6 4/ 8/88 Wien Austria 2-0
7 12/10/88 Antwerpen Belgium 2-1
8 21/ 6/89 Basel Switzerland 0-1
9 1/ 7/89 Salvador Venezuela 3-1 Copa America 10 3/ 7/89 Salvador Peru 0-0 Copa America 11 7/ 7/89 Salvador Colombia 0-0 Copa America 12 9/ 7/89 Recife Paraguay 2-0 Copa America 13 12/ 7/89 Rio de Janeiro Argentina 2-0 Copa America 14 14/ 7/89 Rio de Janeiro Paraguay 3-0 Copa America 15 16/ 7/89 Rio de Janeiro Uruguay 1-0 Copa America 16 23/ 7/89 Rio de Janeiro Japan 1-0
17 30/ 7/89 Caracas Venezuela 4-0 World Cup Qualifier 18 13/ 8/89 Santiago Chile 1-1 World Cup Qualifier 19 20/ 8/89 São Paulo Venezuela 6-0 World Cup Qualifier 20 3/ 9/89 Rio de Janeiro Chile 2-0 (1) World Cup Qualifier 21 14/10/89 Bologna Italy 1-0
22 14/11/89 João Pessoa Yugoslavia 0-0
23 20/12/89 Rotterdam Netherlands 1-0
24 28/ 3/90 London England 0-1
25 5/ 5/90 Campinas Bulgaria 2-1
26 13/ 5/90 Rio de Janeiro East Germany 3-3 27 10/ 6/90 Torino Sweden 2-1 World Cup 28 16/ 6/90 Torino Costa Rica 1-0 World Cup 29 20/ 6/90 Torino Scotland 1-0 World Cup 30 24/ 6/90 Torino Argentina 0-1 World Cup 31 27/ 2/91 Campo Grande Paraguay 1-1
32 27/ 6/91 Curitiba Argentina 1-1
33 9/ 7/91 Viña del Mar Bolivia 2-1 Copa America 34 11/ 7/91 Viña del Mar Uruguay 1-1 Copa America 35 13/ 7/91 Viña del Mar Colombia 0-2 Copa America 36 15/ 7/91 Viña del Mar Ecuador 3-1 Copa America 37 17/ 7/91 Santiago Argentina 2-3 Copa America 38 19/ 7/91 Santiago Colombia 2-0 Copa America 39 21/ 7/91 Santiago Chile 2-0 Copa America 40 11/ 9/91 Cardiff Wales 0-1
41 26/ 8/92 Paris France 2-0
42 16/12/92 Porto Alegre Germany 3-1
43 17/ 2/93 Buenos Aires Argentina 1-1
44 6/ 6/93 New Haven USA 2-0 US Cup 45 10/ 6/93 Washington Germany 3-3 US Cup 46 13/ 6/93 Washington England 1-1 US Cup 47 18/ 6/93 Cuenca Peru 0-0 Copa America 48 14/ 7/93 Rio de Janeiro Paraguay 2-0
49 18/ 7/93 Guayaquil Ecuador 0-0 World Cup Qualifier 50 25/ 7/93 La Paz Bolivia 0-2 World Cup Qualifier 51 1/ 8/93 San Cristóbal Venezuela 5-1 World Cup Qualifier 52 8/ 8/93 Rio de Janeiro Mexico 1-1
53 15/ 8/93 Montevideo Uruguay 1-1 World Cup Qualifier 54 22/ 8/93 São Paulo Ecuador 2-0 World Cup Qualifier 55 29/ 8/93 Recife Bolivia 6-0 World Cup Qualifier 56 5/ 9/93 Belo Horizonte Venezuela 4-0 World Cup Qualifier 57 19/ 9/93 Rio de Janeiro Uruguay 2-0 World Cup Qualifier 58 5/ 6/94 Edmonton Canada 1-1
59 8/ 6/94 San Diego Honduras 8-2
60 20/ 6/94 Palo Alto Russia 2-0 World Cup 61 24/ 6/94 Palo Alto Cameroon 3-0 World Cup 62 28/ 6/94 Detroit Sweden 1-1 World Cup 63 4/ 7/94 Palo Alto USA 1-0 World Cup 64 9/ 7/94 Dallas Netherlands 3-2 World Cup 65 13/ 7/94 Pasadena Sweden 1-0 World Cup 66 17/ 7/94 Pasadena Italy 0-0 (2) World Cup 67 22/ 2/95 Fortaleza Slovakia 5-0
68 13/ 7/95 Rivera Colombia 3-0 Copa America 69 17/ 7/95 Rivera Argentina 2-2 (3) Copa America 70 20/ 7/95 Maldonado USA 1-0 Copa America 71 23/ 7/95 Montevideo Uruguay 1-1 (4) Copa America 72 2/ 4/97 Brasília Chile 4-0
73 30/ 4/97 Miami Mexico 4-0
74 31/ 5/97 Oslo Norway 2-4
75 3/ 6/97 Lyon France 1-1 Tournoi de France 76 8/ 6/97 Lyon Italy 3-3 Tournoi de France 77 10/ 6/97 Paris England 1-0 Tournoi de France 78 13/ 6/97 Santa Cruz Costa Rica 5-0 Copa America 79 16/ 6/97 Santa Cruz Mexico 3-2 Copa America 80 19/ 6/97 Santa Cruz Colombia 2-0 Copa America 81 22/ 6/97 Santa Cruz Paraguay 2-0 Copa America 82 26/ 6/97 Santa Cruz Peru 7-0 Copa America 83 29/ 6/97 La Paz Bolivia 3-1 Copa America 84 10/ 8/97 Seoul South Korea 2-1
85 9/10/97 Belém Morocco 2-0
86 11/11/97 Brasília Wales 3-0
87 3/ 2/98 Miami Jamaica 0-0 Gold Cup 88 5/ 2/98 Miami Guatemala 1-1 Gold Cup 89 8/ 2/98 Los Angeles El Salvador 4-0 Gold Cup 90 10/ 2/98 Los Angeles USA 0-1 Gold Cup 91 15/ 2/98 Los Angeles Jamaica 1-0 Gold Cup 92 25/ 3/98 Stuttgart Germany 2-1
93 29/ 4/98 Rio de Janeiro Argentina 0-1
94 3/ 6/98 Saint Ouen Andorra 3-0
95 10/ 6/98 Paris St.Denis Scotland 2-1 World Cup 96 16/ 6/98 Nantes Morocco 3-0 World Cup 97 23/ 6/98 Marseille Norway 1-2 World Cup 98 27/ 6/98 Paris Chile 4-1 World Cup 99 3/ 7/98 Nantes Denmark 3-2 World Cup 100 7/ 7/98 Marseille Netherlands 1-1 (5) World Cup 101 12/ 7/98 Paris St.Denis France 0-3 World Cup

Remarks:

(1) Chile abandoned the field when Brazil were winning 1-0; the match was awarded 2-0 to Brazil by FIFA. (2) Brazil won 3-2 on penalty kicks. (3) Brazil won 4-2 on penalty kicks. (4) Brazil lost 3-5 on penalty kicks. (5) Brazil won 4-2 on penalty kicks.

Note: The matches against Sweden (31/ 7/88), Argentina (30/ 8/88) and Mexico ( 5/ 9/99), in which Taffarel played, are not considered full internationals and therefore not included here.

Total Record

Matches Won Draw Lost For Against Points Percentage 101 62 27 12 198- 70 151 74.75

Types of Matches Friendlies 31
World Cup Qualifiers 12
Copa America 25
World Cup 18
Other Tournaments 15

Total 101
Goals conceded: 70 (0.69 per match)

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Prepared and maintained by _Roberto Mamrud_for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation

Author: Roberto Mamrud (robert@elsitio.net) Last updated: 26 May 2001