.jpg) Jordão in 1972 | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Rui Manuel Trindade Jordão | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1952-08-09)9 August 1952 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Benguela,Angola | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 18 October 2019(2019-10-18) (aged 67) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Cascais, Portugal | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| Sporting Benguela[1][2] | |||||||||||||||||
| 1970–1971 | Benfica | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1971–1976 | Benfica | 90 | (63) | ||||||||||||||
| 1976–1977 | Zaragoza | 33 | (14) | ||||||||||||||
| 1977–1979 | Sporting CP | 27 | (23) | ||||||||||||||
| 1979 | New England Tea Men | ||||||||||||||||
| 1979–1987 | Sporting CP | 180 | (114) | ||||||||||||||
| 1987–1989 | Vitória Setúbal | 60 | (12) | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 390 | (226) | |||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1971 | Portugal U18 | 7 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 1973 | Portugal U21 | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1972–1989 | Portugal | 43 | (15) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Rui Manuel Trindade Jordão (Portuguese pronunciation:[ˈʁujʒuɾˈðɐ̃w]; 9 August 1952 – 18 October 2019) was a Portuguesefootballer.
His professional career was spent mostly with two of the biggest clubs in the country,Benfica andSporting CP. One of the most prolificstrikers in the history ofPortuguese football, he won theSilver Ball award twice, once with each team.
Jordão represented thePortugal national team for 17 years, appearing with them atEuro 1984.
Born inBenguela,Portuguese Angola, Jordão moved in his teens to Portugal'sS.L. Benfica, making his professional debut in1971–72. He played 18 games and scored seven goals in his debut campaign, appearing slightly less inhis second but still contributing five goals as the club won back-to-backPrimeira Liga titles, only losing one match over two seasons.[3]
Jordão signed with Spanish sideReal Zaragoza in the summer of 1976, scoring regularly butbeing relegated fromLa Liga.[4] Subsequently, he returned to his country of adoption and joinedSporting CP.[3]
Jordão enjoyed his best years with theLions, scoring in double figures in six of his first seven seasons, which included a total of 57 goals when the team won the league (1980 and1982). At the age of 35 he moved toVitória de Setúbal, reuniting with former Sporting teammateManuel Fernandes, another prolific veteran goalscorer. He finished his career two years later, having scored 212 goals in thePortuguese top division alone.[3]
In early 1972, Jordão won the first of his 43caps forPortugal,[5] againstCyprus in the1974 FIFA World Cupqualifiers. Also in that year he was picked for the squad that lost theBrazilian Independence Cup, 1–0 to hostsBrazil.[3]
On 13 November 1983, Jordão scored the decisive goal to beat theSoviet Union, as the national side won 1–0 inLisbon andqualified forUEFA Euro 1984.[3] In the final stages they reached the semi-finals, where the player scored twice against hostsFrance inMarseille on 23 June – Portugal led 2–1 with only six minutes to go inextra time, after individual efforts andassists byFernando Chalana, but eventually lost 3–2.[6][7]
Jordão played his last international in 1989 at nearly 37, the same year of his club retirement. He had returned to the national team after several players were given punishments for theSaltillo Affair at the1986 FIFA World Cup.[8]
After he retired, Jordão moved away from the football world and became a painter and a sculptor.[3] He died on 18 October 2019 at the age of 67, having been hospitalised with heart problems inCascais.[8]Fernando Gomes, the president of thePortuguese Football Federation, delivered a statement describing him as "peerless".[9]
| Portugal[10] | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Apps | Goals |
| 1972 | 8 | 2 |
| 1973 | 2 | 1 |
| 1974 | 1 | 0 |
| 1975 | 0 | 0 |
| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 1 | 1 |
| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | 3 | 0 |
| 1980 | 6 | 3 |
| 1981 | 5 | 1 |
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
| 1983 | 3 | 2 |
| 1984 | 7 | 5 |
| 1985 | 2 | 0 |
| 1986 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988 | 2 | 0 |
| 1989 | 1 | 0 |
| Total | 43 | 15 |
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 29 March 1972 | Estádio da Luz (1954), Lisbon, Portugal |  Cyprus | 4–0 | 4–0 | 1974 World Cup qualification |
| 2 | 6 July 1972 | Mineirão, Belo Horizonte, Brazil |  Soviet Union | 1–0 | 1–0 | Brazilian Independence Cup |
| 3 | 14 November 1973 | Estádio José Alvalade (1956), Lisbon, Portugal |  Northern Ireland | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1974 World Cup qualification |
| 4 | 9 October 1977 | Idrætsparken, Copenhagen, Denmark |  Denmark | 0–1 | 2–4 | 1978 World Cup qualification |
| 5 | 24 September 1980 | Stadio Luigi Ferraris, Genoa, Italy |  Italy | 1–1 | 3–1 | Friendly |
| 6 | 19 November 1980 | Estádio da Luz (1954), Lisbon, Portugal | Northern Ireland | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1982 World Cup qualification |
| 7 | 17 December 1980 | Estádio da Luz (1954), Lisbon, Portugal |  Israel | 2–0 | 3–0 | 1982 World Cup qualification |
| 8 | 28 October 1981 | Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan, Israel | Israel | 1–1 | 4–1 | 1982 World Cup qualification |
| 9 | 21 September 1983 | Estádio José Alvalade (1956), Lisbon, Portugal |  Finland | 1–0 | 5–0 | Euro 1984 qualifying |
| 10 | 13 November 1983 | Estádio da Luz (1954), Lisbon, Portugal | Soviet Union | 1–0 | 1–0 | Euro 1984 qualifying |
| 11 | 2 June 1984 | Estádio Nacional, Lisbon, Portugal |  Yugoslavia | 1–0 | 2–3 | Friendly |
| 12 | 2 June 1984 | Estádio Nacional, Lisbon, Portugal | Yugoslavia | 2–1 | 2–3 | Friendly |
| 13 | 23 June 1984 | Stade Vélodrome, Marseille, France |  France | 1–1 | 3–2 | UEFA Euro 1984 |
| 14 | 23 June 1984 | Stade Vélodrome, Marseille, France | France | 1–2 | 3–2 | UEFA Euro 1984 |
| 15 | 14 November 1984 | Estádio José Alvalade (1956), Lisbon, Portugal |  Sweden | 1–0 | 1–3 | 1986 World Cup qualification |
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