Edmundo Alves de Souza Neto, better known simply as Edmundo, is a retired Brazilian footballer. Nicknamed as Animal, Edmundo played for Brazil at the 1998 World Cup. For Palmeiras, he won the Campeonato Brasileiro in the beginning of the Nineties. For Vasco da Gama he won 1997's Campeonato Brasileiro S�rie A, scoring 29 goals. In that same year, Vasco da Gama scored 69 goals. Edmundo also scored 6 goals in the same game in 1997, against a club from S�o Paulo, Uni�o S�o Jo�o. In 1999 he faced prosecution by animal welfare groups after hiring an entire circus to perform in his back garden to celebrate his son's first birthday. At the party he was accused by some individuals of the press of having a chimpanzee called Pedrinho drunk on beer and whiskey. Subsequent images of this appeared in the media and have passed into football legend. Days later, Edmundo proved those accusations were false. [More at Wikipedia]

April 2nd, 1971 in Niterói (Age 53)