Mário Tilico

Mário de Oliveira Costa (born 23 March 1968), better known as Mário Tilico, is a Brazilian former professional footballer and manager who played as a winger.

Playing career Mário Tilico started in the youth levels of Vasco da Gama, the club for which his father played in the 60s. He was loaned to Cruzeiro in 1991, and won the Supercopa Libertadores title. In 1992, Tilico migrated to Spanish football where he played for Cádiz, Marbella and Atlético Madrid. In 1999, he helped win the most important title in the history of EC Juventude, the Copa do Brasil.

Managerial career Tilico began his career as a manager at Ríver AC, in the dispute of the Copa Piauí in 2009. In 2020, at Olímpia FC, he even attacked defender William in a fight, which ended up causing him to be sacked. Signed with Ação for the dispute of the 2023 Campeonato Mato-Grossense Second Division. In 2025 Tilico trained the Náutico-RR and Coxim U20 teams.

Honours Vasco da Gama Taça Guanabara: 1986, 1987 Campeonato Carioca: 1987

São Paulo Campeonato Paulista: 1989 Campeonato Brasileiro: 1991

Cruzeiro Supercopa Libertadores: 1991

Juventude Copa do Brasil: 1999