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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Artur Jorge Braga de Melo Teixeira | ||
| Date of birth | (1946-02-13)13 February 1946 | ||
| Place of birth | Porto,Portugal | ||
| Date of death | 22 February 2024(2024-02-22) (aged 78) | ||
| Place of death | Lisbon, Portugal | ||
| Position | Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1964–1965 | Porto | 4 | (1) |
| 1965–1969 | Académica | 96 | (72) |
| 1969–1975 | Benfica | 130 | (105) |
| 1975–1978 | Belenenses | 51 | (14) |
| 1977 | →Rochester Lancers (loan) | 7 | (2) |
| Total | 288 | (194) | |
| International career | |||
| 1967–1977 | Portugal | 16 | (1) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1980–1981 | Vitória de Guimarães | ||
| 1981 | Belenenses | ||
| 1981–1983 | Portimonense | ||
| 1984–1987 | Porto | ||
| 1987–1988 | Racing Paris | ||
| 1988–1991 | Porto | ||
| 1990–1991 | Portugal | ||
| 1991–1994 | Paris Saint-Germain | ||
| 1994–1995 | Benfica | ||
| 1995–1996 | Switzerland | ||
| 1996–1997 | Portugal | ||
| 1997–1998 | Tenerife | ||
| 1998 | Vitesse | ||
| 1998–1999 | Paris Saint-Germain | ||
| 2000–2001 | Al-Nassr | ||
| 2001–2002 | Al-Hilal | ||
| 2002–2003 | Académica | ||
| 2003–2004 | CSKA Moscow | ||
| 2004–2006 | Cameroon | ||
| 2006 | Al-Nassr | ||
| 2006–2007 | Créteil | ||
| 2014–2015 | MC Alger | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Artur Jorge Braga de Melo Teixeira (13 February 1946 – 22 February 2024), commonly known asArtur Jorge, was a Portuguesefootball player and manager.
As a junior player, Artur Jorge started at the junior team ofFC Porto. As professional player, he played forAcadémica de Coimbra andBenfica, before ending his career atBelenenses in the 1977–78 season, due to a serious injury suffered at a training session in theEstádio Nacional where he broke a leg. He also had a stint in theNorth American Soccer League with theRochester Lancers.[1]
After his player career, Artur Jorge went toLeipzig,East Germany, to study football and training methodology.He started his managerial career working withVitória de Guimarães,[2] moving on toBelenenses,[3]Portimonense and then signing with Porto for the 1984–85 season, where he won three national champion titles and two Taça de Portugal titles. His greatest success was to win theEuropean Cup with Porto over favouritesBayern Munich 2–1. Jorge was known as "Rei Artur" ("King Arthur") from then on. He moved toRacing Paris the next season,[4] and returned to Porto in 1989–90. He then moved toParis Saint-Germain in 1991–92, where he won thenational championship in 1993–94.[5]
Artur Jorge moved to Benfica in 1994–95, finishing third with his team, and was replaced at the beginning of the following season. He went to become coach of several other clubs includingAcadémica de Coimbra,Vitesse Arnhem,Tenerife andCSKA Moscow. He managed the Portugal national team, initially while still Porto coach during the 1989–90 and 1990–91 seasons, and again during the 1996–97 season. He also managed theSwitzerland team atUEFA Euro 1996, replacingRoy Hodgson under whom they had qualified.[6][7] From 2004 he managedCameroon.[8][9] He failed to lead his team to the2006 FIFA World Cup. He managed Saudi clubAl-Nasr for only two cup matches and was sacked following a 4–1 defeat by lowly club Al-Faisaly. He then managed Frenchsecond division teamCréteil in 2006–07.[10]
On 27 November 2014, Artur Jorge joined Algerian clubMC Alger, ending a seven-year period without coaching.[11]
Jorge died on 22 February 2024, at the age of 78.[12]
| Team | Nat | From | To | Record | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % | ||||
| Vitória de Guimarães |  | 1 June 1980 | 30 May 1981 | 31 | 11 | 9 | 11 | 39 | 32 | +7 | 035.48 |
| Belenenses | | 1 June 1981 | 30 September 1981 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 5 | +1 | 020.00 |
| Portimonense | | 30 September 1981 | 30 May 1983 | 65 | 28 | 16 | 21 | 81 | 54 | +27 | 043.08 |
| FC Porto | | 18 May 1984 | 30 May 1987 | 130 | 96 | 18 | 16 | 297 | 80 | +217 | 073.85 |
| Racing |  | 10 June 1987 | 30 May 1988 | 41 | 13 | 17 | 11 | 36 | 44 | −8 | 031.71 |
| FC Porto | | 12 November 1988 | 1 June 1991 | 125 | 91 | 21 | 13 | 255 | 71 | +184 | 072.80 |
| Portugal | | 1 June 1989 | 1 June 1990 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 10 | −4 | 028.57 |
| PSG | | 10 June 1991 | 30 May 1994 | 144 | 78 | 44 | 22 | 215 | 96 | +119 | 054.17 |
| S.L. Benfica | | 1 July 1994 | 9 September 1995 | 54 | 28 | 15 | 11 | 92 | 45 | +47 | 051.85 |
| Switzerland |  | 13 March 1996 | 18 June 1996 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 8 | −3 | 014.29 |
| Portugal | | 1 August 1996 | 30 November 1997 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 6 | +6 | 041.67 |
| Vitesse |  | June 1998 | October 1998 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 9 | +10 | 066.67 |
| PSG | | October 1998 | March 1999 | 23 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 21 | 22 | −1 | 026.09 |
| Al-Nassr |  | 1 June 2000 | 1 June 2001 | 26 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 36 | 22 | +14 | 050.00 |
| Al-Hilal | | 1 June 2001 | 1 June 2002 | 24 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 57 | 21 | +36 | 062.50 |
| Académica de Coimbra | | 26 October 2002 | 28 August 2003 | 33 | 12 | 10 | 11 | 47 | 46 | +1 | 036.36 |
| CSKA Moscow |  | 23 November 2003 | 4 June 2004 | 16 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 27 | 14 | +13 | 050.00 |
| Cameroon |  | 10 January 2005 | 5 February 2006 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 19 | 6 | +13 | 072.73 |
| Al-Nassr | | 21 February 2006 | 4 March 2006 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 9 | −5 | 000.00 |
| Créteil | | 30 May 2006 | 30 May 2007 | 41 | 10 | 13 | 18 | 36 | 56 | −20 | 024.39 |
| MC Alger |  | 3 January 2014 | 8 October 2015 | 24 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 26 | 16 | +10 | 045.83 |
| Career total | 830 | 443 | 216 | 171 | 1,329 | 667 | +662 | 053.37 | |||
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