Manuel Duarte

Manuel Duarte
Personal information
Full name	Manuel Almeida Duarte
Date of birth	29 May 1945
Place of birth	Celorico de Basto, Portugal
Date of death	2 September 2022 (aged 77)
Place of death	Fafe, Portugal
Position(s)	Striker
Senior career*
Years	Team
1962–1964	Académica
1964–1966	Leixões
1966–1970	Sporting CP
1970–1971	Porto
1971–1972	Varzim
1972–1978	Fafe
1978–1979	Cabeceirense
1979–1980	Limianos
1981–1982	Felgueiras
1982–1984	Mondinense
International career
1966	Portugal
Medal record
Men's football
Representing Portugal
FIFA World Cup
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Manuel Almeida Duarte (29 May 1945 – 2 September 2022) was a Portuguese footballer who played as a striker.

Club career

Duarte was born in Celorico de Basto, Braga District. In a 16–year professional career he played for Académica de Coimbra, Leixões SC, Sporting CP, FC Porto, Varzim S.C. and AD Fafe, amassing Primeira Liga totals of 79 matches and 32 goals over nine seasons and competing in the Segunda Liga with the last two clubs. He retired at the age of 39, after five years in amateur football with four sides.

Duarte scored a career-best 11 goals (in only 19 games) in the 1966–67 campaign, helping Sporting to the fourth position.^[1]

Duarte earned two caps for Portugal in 1966, being an unused squad member at that year's FIFA World Cup.^[2]

Duarte died in Fafe on 2 September 2022, aged 77.^[3]

^ "Época 1966/67: Primeira Divisão" [1966/67 season: First Division] (in Portuguese). Arquivos da Bola. 17 October 2007. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
^ 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.
^ "Manuel Duarte, um dos "magriços", morre aos 77 anos" [Manuel Duarte, one of the "magriços", dies at the age of 77]. Diário de Notícias (in Portuguese). 2 September 2022. Retrieved 2 September 2022.