Mascarenhas (footballer)

Domingos Mascarenhas
Personal information
Full name	Domingos António da Silva
Date of birth	28 April 1937
Place of birth	Vila Salazar, Angola
Date of death	25 August 2015 (aged 78)
Place of death	Lisbon, Portugal
Position(s)	Forward
Senior career*
Years	Team
1958–1959	Benfica
1959–1962	Barreirense
1962–1965	Sporting CP
1965–1966	Barreirense
1966–1967	CUF
1967–1968	Peniche
1969–1971	Riopele
1972–1975	Paços Ferreira
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Domingos António da Silva (28 April 1937 – 25 August 2015), known as Mascarenhas, was an Angolan footballer who played as a forward.

Club career edit

Mascarenhas was born in Vila Salazar, Portuguese Angola. After one season with S.L. Benfica and three with F.C. Barreirense, he joined Sporting CP in 1962; during his three-year spell with the Lisbon club, he scored 80 goals in 107 matches all appearances comprised, even friendlies.

In the 1963 Portuguese Cup final, Mascarenhas scored once in a 4–0 victory over Vitória de Guimarães. The following campaign, in Sporting's victorious campaign in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, he netted six times in a 16–1 home rout of APOEL FC (European competition record), adding another in the final against MTK Budapest FC, the 3–3 leading to a replay in Antwerp which ended with a 1–0 win for the Lions.^[1]^[2]

Mascarenhas died on 25 August 2015 at the São José Hospital in Lisbon, after a long illness. He was 78 years old.^[3]

^ "1963/64: Sporting at the second attempt". UEFA. 17 August 2001. Archived from the original on 19 May 2008. Retrieved 9 October 2012.
^ Biografia (Biography) Archived 12 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine; at Sporting CP (in Portuguese)
^ "Morreu Mascarenhas" [Mascarenhas has died]. A Bola (in Portuguese). 25 August 2015. Archived from the original on 26 August 2015. Retrieved 25 August 2015.