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| Full name | João Pedro Morais | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1935-03-06)6 March 1935 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Cascais, Portugal | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 27 April 2010(2010-04-27) (aged 75) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Vila do Conde, Portugal | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Full-back,winger | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1948–1951 | Sporting Alcabideche | ||||||||||||||||
| 1951–1954 | Estoril | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1954–1955 | Caldas | ||||||||||||||||
| 1955–1958 | Torreense | 41 | (18) | ||||||||||||||
| 1958–1969 | Sporting CP | 192 | (50) | ||||||||||||||
| 1970–1972 | Rio Ave | ||||||||||||||||
| 1972–1973 | Paços Ferreira | ||||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1966–1967 | Portugal | 9 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
João Pedro Morais (6 March 1935 – 27 April 2010) was a Portuguesefootballer. He started playing as awinger and later became afull-back.
Born inCascais, Morais joinedSporting CP in 1958, arriving fromS.C.U. Torreense where he had made hisPrimeira Liga debut. He spent the following 11 seasons with theLisbon club, appearing in 256 matches in all competitions – includingfriendlies – and scoring 68 goals.
Morais was essential as Sportingwon the 1964 edition of theUEFA Cup Winners' Cup: inthe final's replay (3–3 in the first match), he scored from a directcorner kick in a 1–0 win againstMTK Budapest FC.[1][2]
Morais left theLions in June 1969, having won four titles. He retired at the age of 38, after three years in amateur football withRio Ave F.C. andF.C. Paços de Ferreira.
Morais earned ninecaps forPortugal in one year.[3] His debut was on 18 June 1966 in a 1–0friendly victory overScotland, in Glasgow.
Morais was selected for the country's1966 FIFA World Cup squad, appearing in three games in a third-place finish.[4] In the last group-stage fixture againstBrazil, he committed one of the most infamousWorld Cup fouls on Brazilian legendPelé;[5] however, he was allowed to stay on the field by English refereeGeorge McCabe.[6]
Morais settled inVila do Conde, the city of his penultimate club, after retiring, going on to work as acity hall employee. He died on 27 April 2010 at 75 after a long battle with illness.[2]
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