João de Matos Moura Lourenço (born 8 April 1942) is a Portuguese former footballer who played as a striker, most notably for Sporting CP.[1]
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| Full name | João de Matos Moura Lourenço | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 8 April 1942 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Alcobaça, Portugal | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||||||||||||||||
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| Alcobaça | |||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1960–1961 | Alcobaça | ||||||||||||||||
| 1961–1964 | Académica | 56 | (40) | ||||||||||||||
| 1964–1972 | Sporting CP | 151 | (93) | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 207 | (133) | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Club career edit
Born in Alcobaça, Leiria District, Lourenço started playing football in 1960 with local G.C. Alcobaça. After one season, he signed for Associação Académica de Coimbra.[2]
In the summer of 1964, Lourenço joined Primeira Liga club Sporting CP. He remained in Lisbon eight years, winning the 1966 and 1970 national championships.
Lourenço retired in June 1972 aged only 30, having scored 145 goals in 219 competitive matches for the Lions including 93 in the league. In a rainy afternoon in October 1965, he netted four times in a 4–2 away win against S.L. Benfica as Sporting went on to win the domestic championship; in European competition he added 18, only being surpassed many years later by Liédson.[3]
International career edit
Lourenço was a member of the Portugal squad that participated in the 1966 FIFA World Cup in England, but did not make any appearance in the competition for the third-placed team, eventually being the only player called for the tournament that would never be capped.[4][5]
Personal life edit
His career ended in 1972, when he still had a year left on his contract with Sporting. He gave up football and moved to Portuguese Angola because he didn't want to fight in the Portuguese Colonial War and by moving to that African territory under Portuguese rule, he could legally be exempt from military service. He later emigrated to Canada, where he worked in a flat block, a bureau de change and in the cargo department of Sabena (a Belgian airline). He returned to Portugal in 1981 and worked at Securitas.[1]
References edit
- ^ a b "João Lourenço". camaroteleonino.blogs.sapo.pt (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-04-08.
- ^ "Só Travaços não traduziu a qualidade em golos" [Only Travaços did not translate quality into goals]. Record (in Portuguese). 29 January 2002. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
- ^ Silveira, João Pedro (17 November 2011). "Lourenço: o homem do Poker na Luz" [Lourenço: pokerman at the Estádio da Luz] (in Portuguese). Zerozero. Retrieved 20 January 2012.
- ^ "1966 FIFA World Cup England ™ – Portugal". FIFA. Archived from the original on 31 October 2013. Retrieved 5 February 2010.
- ^ Paixão, Paulo; Castanheira, José Pedro (13 July 2016). "A lenda dos Magriços começou há 50 anos" [The legend of the Magriços started 50 years ago]. Expresso (in Portuguese). Retrieved 9 April 2020.
External links edit
- João Lourenço at ForaDeJogo (archived)
- João Lourenço national team profile at the Portuguese Football Federation (in Portuguese)
