Jair da Costa is a former Brazilian footballer

Football in Brazil

Football is the most popular sport in Brazil. The Brazilian national football team has won the FIFA World Cup tournament a record 5 times, in 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994 and 2002, and is the only team to succeed in qualifying for every World Cup competition ever held. It is among the favourites to win...

 who notably played for Internazionale, and was part of their European Cup

UEFA Champions League

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 victories in 1964

European Cup 1963-64

The 1963-64 season of the European Cup club football tournamentsaw Internazionale win the title with a 3-1 victory over Real Madrid. It was the second consecutive season that an Italian team had won the Championship....

 and 1965

European Cup 1964-65

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He also won the 1962 FIFA World Cup

1962 FIFA World Cup

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 with the Brazil national football team

Brazil national football team

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He started his club career with Portuguesa

Associação Portuguesa de Desportos

Associação Portuguesa de Desportos, usually called Portuguesa or Lusa, is a sports club, and a Brazilian football team from São Paulo in São Paulo state, founded on August 14, 1920 by the Portuguese population of the city.-History:...

. He moved to Internazionale in November 1962, and went on to play a total of 260 senior games for the club in two spells (1962–1967 and 1968–1972).

He played a season with A.S. Roma

A.S. Roma

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 in 1967/68 and later played for Santos FC and Windsor Star in Canada.

Honours:

• FIFA World Cup
  FIFA World Cup
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  : 1962
• Italian League
  Serie A
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  : 1963, 1965, 1966, 1971
• European Champion's League: 1964, 1965
• FIFA Club World Championship: 1964, 1965