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| Full name | Hilário Rosário da Conceição[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1939-06-19)19 June 1939 (age 86)[2] | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Lourenço Marques,Mozambique | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Left-back | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1953–1956 | Atlético Lourenço Marques | ||||||||||||||||
| 1956–1957 | Sporting Lourenço Marques | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1958 | Sporting Lourenço Marques | ||||||||||||||||
| 1958–1973 | Sporting CP | 331 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1959–1971 | Portugal | 40 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1973–1974 | Sporting CP (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1974–1975 | Braga | ||||||||||||||||
| 1975–1976 | Marítimo | ||||||||||||||||
| 1976–1977 | Sanjoanense | ||||||||||||||||
| 1977 | Braga | ||||||||||||||||
| 1979–1980 | Braga | ||||||||||||||||
| 1980–1981 | Leixões | ||||||||||||||||
| 1981 | Águeda | ||||||||||||||||
| 1981–1982 | Covilhã | ||||||||||||||||
| 1982–1983 | Académico Viseu | ||||||||||||||||
| 1983–1984 | Tirsense | ||||||||||||||||
| 1984–1987 | Lusitânia | ||||||||||||||||
| 1987–1988 | Praiense | ||||||||||||||||
| 1989 | Ferroviário | ||||||||||||||||
| 1990–1991 | Matchedje | ||||||||||||||||
| 1992–1993 | Maxaquene | ||||||||||||||||
| 1994–1997 | Sporting CP (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2003–2004 | Sporting CP B (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Hilário Rosário da Conceição,OM (born 19 June 1939), known asHilário (Portuguese pronunciation:[iˈlaɾiu]), is a Portuguese formerfootballer who played as aleft-back.
He spent his entire professional career withSporting CP, appearing in 474 competitive matches (a record that stood for several decades) and winning seven major trophies.[3][4]
An international for 12 years, Hilário representedPortugal at the1966 FIFA World Cup.
Born inLourenço Marques,Portuguese Mozambique, Hilário was first noticed atSporting de Lourenço Marques, an official branch ofSporting CP, asEusébio, three years his junior and a childhood friend.[5][6][7][8] He put his youth career on hold for nearly two years and switched tobasketball, as he often played football barefoot due to the fact he did not feel comfortable wearingcleats.[9]
After signing for Sporting in 1958, Hilário was an undisputed starter for 14 of his 15Primeira Divisão seasons, winning three national championships and as manyTaça de Portugal.[10][9] He missed the club's conquest of the1963–64 European Cup Winners' Cup,[11] due to a serious tibia injury contracted againstVitória de Setúbal just three days beforethe final againstMTK Budapest FC inBrussels.[12] Following a replay inAntwerp, the trophy was taken by the whole team to his house where he was recovering; prior to that second match, he sent a telegram from the hospital to his teammates: "Fight until the end, I have you in my heart." A photo of him with his leg still in a cast and drinking champagne from the trophy became famous.[13][14]
Hilário retired aged 34, and embarked on a managerial career shortly after. This included his only spells in the Portuguese top division, withS.C. Braga in the1976–77 and the1979–80 seasons, and assistant stints with Sporting (both first andreserve teams).[15][9]
Following the arrival of Eusébio toLisbon in December 1960, Hilário tried to talk him into joining him at Sporting, as the former was poised to sign forS.L. Benfica. On behalf of Sporting, Hilário offered him an improved professional contract instead of the initial arrangement of atrial period. Sporting's offer was the double of Benfica's, included the necessary funds to allowfinancial compensation for the incurred costs, and according to Hilário he was successful in that endeavour.[16][17][18][7]
Benfica found this meeting suspicious, and in order to avoid the advances of Sporting towards Eusébio instructed him to be codenamed Ruth Malosso,[19] moved him on 8 April 1961 to a holiday home owned by former chairman Domingos Claudino and a hotel near the Meia Praia beach inLagos,Algarve, where he would remain for twelve days until the transfer upheaval subsided, and he finally signed and was registered.[20]
On 11 November 1959, Hilário made his debut for thePortugal national team, in a 5–3friendly loss toFrance. He went on earn a further 39caps, his last appearance coming on 17 February 1971 in a 3–0 defeat againstBelgium inUEFA Euro 1972 qualifying.[2][9]
Hilário was called up for the1966 FIFA World Cup by managerOtto Glória, featuring in all the matches for the third-placed side.[21]
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