Leônidas [SEP] medical condition
, before leaving football to become a radio reporter and then the owner of a furniture store in São Paulo. Leônidas died in 2004 in Cotia, São Paulo, because of complications due to Alzheimer's disease, from which he had been suffering since 1974. He is buried in the "Cemitério Morada da Paz" of São Paulo.
Honours.
Honours Club.
- Campeonato Carioca: 1934, 1935, 1939
- Campeonato Paulista: 1943, 1945, 1946, 1948, 1949
Honours International.
- Brazil
had warned FIFA about Niginho's irregular condition: this player, who had Italian Citizenship, was still legally attached to Lazio, the club he left without permission in 1936, due to fear of being recruited by the Italian Army to the Second Italo-Ethiopian War. Leônidas managed to score against the Czechs, but his injuries got worse, making him definitely unable to be used in the next game – the semifinal against Italy. Brazil lost the match 2–1 and for many years the coach Adhemar Pimenta was criticized as many fans