Cláudio Taffarel

Brazilian goalkeeper who became the goalkeeping coach of both English Premier League club Liverpool and the Brazil national team. He began his senior career in 1985 with Internacional in his native Brazil and then played in Parma, Reggiana, Atlético Mineiro and Galatasaray. He retired in 2003 after a second spell at Parma.

Taffarel played a key role in Brazil's victorious 1994 World Cup campaign and also appeared in eight other major international tournaments over the course of one full decade, most notably winning two Copa América titles in 1989 and 1997, as well as a World Cup runners-up finish in 1998.

He also won a silver medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in South Korea.

He was a member of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes since 1988, and has 17 children, 15 of them adopted.