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{{Infobox football biography
| image =
| caption = AC Zago, AS Roma
| name = Antônio Carlos 
| fullname = Antônio Carlos Zago
| height = {{height|meter=1.84}}
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1969|3|14}}
| birth_place = [[Presidente Prudente]], Brazil  
| currentclub = 
| clubnumber = 
| position = [[Defender (association football)#Centre back|Centre-back]]
| youthyears1 = 
| youthclubs1 = 
| years1 = 1990–1992 
| years2 = 1992–1993 
| years3 = 1993–1995 
| years4 = 1996–1997 
| years5 = 1997–1998 
| years6 = 1998–2002 
| years7 = 2002–2004 
| years8 = 2004–2005 
| years9 = 2005–2006 
| years10 = 2007
| clubs1 = [[São Paulo Futebol Clube|São Paulo]] 
| clubs2 = [[Albacete Balompié|Albacete]] 
| clubs3 = [[Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras|Palmeiras]] 
| clubs4 = [[Kashiwa Reysol]] 
| clubs5 = [[Sport Club Corinthians Paulista|Corinthians]] 
| clubs6 = [[A.S. Roma|Roma]] 
| clubs7 = [[Beşiktaş J.K.|Beşiktaş]] 
| clubs8 = [[Santos Futebol Clube|Santos]] 
| clubs9 = [[Esporte Clube Juventude|Juventude]] 
| clubs10 = [[Santos Futebol Clube|Santos]]
| caps1 = 64    
| caps2 = 12    
| caps3 = 58    
| caps4 = 24    
| caps5 = 12    
| caps6 = 107    
| caps7 = 56    
| caps8 = 7    
| caps9 = 52    
| caps10 = 1    
| goals1 = 4  
| goals2 = 1  
| goals3 = 5  
| goals4 = 0  
| goals5 = 2  
| goals6 = 2  
| goals7 = 2  
| goals8 = 0  
| goals9 = 2  
| goals10 = 0 
| nationalyears1 = 1991–2001
| nationalteam1 = [[Brazil National Football Team|Brazil]] 
| nationalcaps1 = 37  
| nationalgoals1 = 3 
| manageryears1 = 2009–2010 
| manageryears2 = 2010 
| manageryears3 = 2010 
| manageryears4 = 2011
| manageryears5 = 2011
| manageryears6 = 2012
| manageryears7 = 2013-
| managerclubs1 = [[Associação Desportiva São Caetano|São Caetano]] 
| managerclubs2 = [[Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras|Palmeiras]] 
| managerclubs3 = [[Grêmio Prudente Futebol|Grêmio Prudente]] 
| managerclubs4 = [[Mogi Mirim Esporte Clube|Mogi Mirim]]
| managerclubs5 = [[Vila Nova Futebol Clube|Vila Nova]]
| managerclubs6 = [[Audax São Paulo Esporte Clube|Audax-SP]]
| managerclubs7 = [[AS Roma]] (assistant coach)
| pcupdate = 
| ntupdate =
}}

'''Antônio Carlos Zago''', widely known as "Antônio Carlos" or "A.C. Zago", (born March 14, 1969 in [[Presidente Prudente]]) is a former Brazilian [[football (soccer)|footballer]] and current coach.

==Club career==

Born in Presidente Prudente, a city of the state of [[São Paulo]], also having Italian origins, began professional football in [[São Paulo FC]], where he remained for three years and then signed to  [[Albacete Balompié]], Spain, where he stayed for only one season. He returned to his homeland, this time to [[Palmeiras]], another team of [[São Paulo]] and a rival to his previous Brazilian team. After three years emigrated again, this time in Japan, [[Kashiwa Reysol]], where once again remained for only one year before returning to play again in [[São Paulo]], but this time at [[Sport Club Corinthians Paulista|Corinthians]], being one of the few players who have played in all the three biggest teams of the city and arch rivals as well.<ref>[http://globoesporte.globo.com/ESP/Noticia/0,,AA1150278-5432,00.html Antônio Carlos: Pena máxima seria de 780 dias]</ref>

In January 1998 Zago moved to Rome, wanted by [[Zdenek Zeman]] to reinforce the defence line. In his game debut, 11 February 1998 (Lecce-Roma) was expelled after a few minutes of play, but with the club giallorossi improved his quality and skill, so that in 1999 he recalled to his National Assembly. At Rome Zago remained five years and was also part of the training sample of Italy in 2001, a fact which remains an idol to the public romanista, who called him [[The Terminator|Terminator]]. That year Zago formed a rocky defence well supported by his compatriot [[Aldair]] and Argentinian [[Walter Samuel]] as well.<ref>[http://www.ledaesportes.com.br/antonio_carlos_zago.htm Antonio Carlos Zago – Ledaesportes.com]</ref>

In November 1999 Zago was the protagonist of a shocking episode, when he hit in the face [[Lazio]] player [[Diego Simeone]] during a derby. The outcome was a positive attitude towards him by the fans, who pay tribute to his action in the song "Brusco", the phrases "Zago: spits fire as a dragon" and "people can ssolo stà wetsuit, artrimenti AC Zago je spits". Zago is also one of the few Brazilian players who is known with his name and surname. During the years he spent to Rome he had chosen his name on the shirt to be written in different ways, the first "ANTÔNIO CARLOS", then "AC ZAGO" then simply "ZAGO."<ref>[http://globoesporte.globo.com/ESP/Noticia/0,,AA1148934-5432,00.html Zagueiro do Ju pode ser punido por racismo]</ref>

In 2002 he left Rome and after a year of inactivity went to Turkey and signed with the [[Beşiktaş J.K.|Beşiktaş]], before returning to Brazil in August 2004 to [[Santos FC|Santos]]. In 2005 and 2006 played in Juventude. He closed his career in 2007 with Santos.<ref>[http://www.juventude.com.br/principal.php?action=jogadores&subaction=ver&id=228 Dados pessoais do site do Juventude]</ref>

==International career==

Zago debuted with the [[Brazil national football team|Brazil national team]] on October 30, 1991 against Yugoslavia (3–1) and remained within the national squad until 1993. After a period of light and shadows, only after moving to Rome again he managed to stand out, and then he returned to the national team, where between 1998 and 2001 he collected 26 caps and scored two goals, and was part of the squad that won the [[1999 Copa América]]. In total, he made 37 appearances for Brazil, scoring three goals.

== Club career statistics ==
<ref>http://www.national-football-teams.com/v2/player.php?id=10594</ref>
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
! colspan=3 | Club performance
! colspan=2 | League

|-
! Season
! Club
! League
! Apps !! Goals

|-
! colspan=3 |Brazil
! colspan=2 | League

|-
|1990||rowspan="3"|[[São Paulo FC|São Paulo]]||rowspan="3"|[[Campeonato Brasileiro Série A|Série A]]||21||1
|-
|1991||21||1
|-
|1992||22||2
|-
! colspan=3 |Spain
! colspan=2 | League

|-
|1992/93||[[Albacete Balompié]]||[[La Liga]]||12||1
|-
! colspan=3 |Brazil
! colspan=2 | League

|-
|1993||rowspan="3"|[[SE Palmeiras|Palmeiras]]||rowspan="3"|[[Campeonato Brasileiro Série A|Série A]]||18||1
|-
|1994||21||1
|-
|1995||20||1
|-
! colspan=3 |Japan
! colspan=2 | League

|-
|1996||rowspan="2"|[[Kashiwa Reysol]]||rowspan="2"|[[J. League Division 1|J. League 1]]||24||0
|-
|1997||0||0
|-
! colspan=3 |Brazil
! colspan=2 | League

|-
|1997||[[SC Corinthians Paulista|Corinthians Paulista]]||[[Campeonato Brasileiro Série A|Série A]]||12||2
|-
! colspan=3 |Italy
! colspan=2 | League

|-
|1997/98||rowspan="5"|[[A.S. Roma|Roma]]||rowspan="5"|[[Serie A]]||12||0
|-
|1998/99||28||0
|-
|1999/00||27||2
|-
|2000/01||28||0
|-
|2001/02||12||0
|-
! colspan=3 |Turkey
! colspan=2 | League

|-
|2002/03||rowspan="2"|[[Beşiktaş J.K.|Beşiktaş]]||rowspan="2"|[[Süper Lig]]||31||2
|-
|2003/04||25||0
|-
! colspan=3 |Brazil
! colspan=2 | League

|-
|2004||[[Santos FC|Santos]]||[[Campeonato Brasileiro Série A|Série A]]||7||0
|-
|2005||rowspan="2"|[[EC Juventude|Juventude]]||rowspan="2"|[[Campeonato Brasileiro Série A|Série A]]||30||1
|-
|2006||22||1
|-
|2007||[[Santos FC|Santos]]||[[Campeonato Brasileiro Série A|Série A]]||1||0
|-
!rowspan=5| Country !!colspan=2| Brazil
!195||11
|-
!colspan=2|Spain
!12||1
|-
!colspan=2|Japan
!24||0
|-
!colspan=2|Italy
!107||2
|-
!colspan=2|Turkey
!56||2
|-
!colspan=3|Total
!394||16
|}

== International career statistics ==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
! colspan=3 | [[Brazil national football team|Brazil national team]]
|-
!Year!!Apps!!Goals
|-
|-
|1991||2||0
|-
|1992||3||1
|-
|1993||6||0
|-
|1994||0||0
|-
|1995||0||0
|-
|1996||0||0
|-
|1997||0||0
|-
|1998||3||0
|-
|1999||12||0
|-
|2000||10||2
|-
|2001||1||0
|-
!Total||37||3
|}

==Titles==
* Campeonato Paulista de 1991 (São Paulo)
* Campeonato Brasileiro de 1991 (São Paulo)
* Campeonato Paulista de 1992 (São Paulo)
* Libertadores de 1992 (São Paulo)
* Campeão Ramon Carranza de 1992 (Albacete)
* Campeão Tereza Herrera de 1992 (Albacete)
* Campeonato Paulista de 1993 (Palmeiras)
* Campeonato Brasileiro de 1993 (Palmeiras)
* Torneio Rio-São Paulo de 1993 (Palmeiras)
* Campeonato Paulista de 1994 (Palmeiras)
* Campeonato Brasileiro de 1994 (Palmeiras)
* Campeonato Paulista de 1997 (Corinthians)
* Copa Américade 1999 (Seleção Brasileira)
* [[Serie A]]: [[2000–01 Serie A|2000–01]] (AS Roma)
* [[Supercoppa Italiana]]: [[2001 Supercoppa Italiana|2001]] (AS Roma)
* Türkiye Süper Ligi 2003 (Beşiktaş)
* Campeonato Brasileiro de 2004 (Santos FC)
* Taca Río de Janeiro 2005 (Fluminense)
* Campeonato Paulista de 2007 (Santos)

== Managerial career ==
In June 2009, after an unsuccessful experience as technical director at [[Sport Club Corinthians Paulista|Corinthians]],<ref>[http://www.estadao.com.br/noticias/esportes,antonio-carlos-zago-pede-demissao-e-deixa-o-corinthians,332625,0.htm]</ref> Zago signed a deal as a manager with [[Associação Desportiva São Caetano|São Caetano]].

As a coach, he had a promising start in the 2010 Paulista Championship and enjoyed a historic win against his former team [[Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras|Palmeiras]] at Parque Antarctica.<ref>[http://www2.futebolinterior.com.br/news.php?id_news=117041]</ref> The feat brought him close to the traditional Palmeiras leaders and on February 18, 2010, he signed with Parque Antarctica club.<ref>[http://www.estadao.com.br/noticias/esportes,antonio-carlos-zago-e-o-novo-treinador-do-palmeiras,513137,0.htm]</ref>

However, issues with the squad and criticism against Palmeiras' poor performances motivated his resignation three months later.<ref>[http://esporte.uol.com.br/futebol/campeonatos/brasileiro/serie-a/ultimas-noticias/2010/05/18/antonio-carlos-nao-e-mais-o-tecnico-do-palmeiras.jhtm]</ref>

In January 2013 he returned to [[AS Roma]], this time as an assistant coach.

==References==
<references/>

==External links==
* [http://en.sambafoot.com/players/64_Antonio_Carlos.html Antônio Carlos – Antônio Carlos Zago – sambafoot.com]
*[http://www.tff.org/Default.aspx?pageId=526&kisiId=29905 Profile at TFF]

{{Brazil Squad 1993 Copa América}}
{{Brazil Squad 1999 Copa América}}
{{Beşiktaş JK 100th Year Champion Squad}}
{{Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras managers}}

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