Carlos C�sar Sampaio Campos, is a Brazilian former footballer, and is the current Football Director of Palmeiras, where he played from 1991 to 1994 and from 1999 to 2000. He retired as a player in 2004. C�sar Sampaio is one of the few players who played for the 4 major clubs from S�o Paulo and one of the greatest idols from Palmeiras' history. He won the Bola de Ouro twice, in 1990 and 1993, and joined the Brazil national football team during the Copa Am�rica in 1993, but was not part of the team during the FIFA World Cup finals in neither 1990 nor 1994. He was later also part of the Brazilian squad that won both the Copa Am�rica and FIFA Confederations Cup in 1997, and played for Brazil at the 1998 FIFA World Cup finals, where he made six appearances in the team's run to the final, which they lost to the hosts of the tournament, France. At the 1998 FIFA World Cup finals, he became remembered for scoring the first goal of the entire tournament in the 4th minute of Brazil's opening match against Scotland, a header from a corner on the left. He also scored a brace in Brazil's 4?1 victory against Chile in the round of 16 during the same tournament. 

March 31st, 1968 in São Paulo (Age 56)