Orlando Duarte Figueiredo (18 February 1932 – 15 December 2020)[1] was a Brazilian sports journalist and commentator.
Acting for a long time on radio and television in São Paulo and writing a column distributed throughout the country, he covered 14 world football championships, ten Olympic Games and championships of various sports.
During the 1960s, he was a journalist continually covering Santos' masterful team closely, and ended up becoming a personal friend of Pelé.
In February 2019, his wife revealed that the commentator suffered from Alzheimer's disease, which showed signs after the 2018 World Cup.
[3][4] Duarte died on 15 December 2020, a victim of COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil, after three weeks of hospitalization to treat two aneurysms and coronavirus symptoms.