Rui Jordão
Rui Manuel Trindade Jordão (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈʁuj ʒuɾˈðɐ̃w̃]; 9 August 1952 – 18 October 2019) was a Portuguese footballer.
Jordão in 1972 | ||||||||||||||||
Personal information | ||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Rui Manuel Trindade Jordão | |||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 9 August 1952 | |||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Benguela, Angola | |||||||||||||||
Date of death | 18 October 2019 67) | (aged|||||||||||||||
Place of death | Cascais, Portugal | |||||||||||||||
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||||
Playing position(s) | Striker | |||||||||||||||
Youth career | ||||||||||||||||
Sporting Benguela | ||||||||||||||||
1970–1971 | Benfica | |||||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||
1971–1976 | Benfica | 90 | (63) | |||||||||||||
1976–1977 | Zaragoza | 33 | (14) | |||||||||||||
1977–1987 | Sporting CP | 207 | (137) | |||||||||||||
1987–1989 | Vitória Setúbal | 60 | (12) | |||||||||||||
Total | 390 | (226) | ||||||||||||||
National team | ||||||||||||||||
1971 | Portugal U18 | 7 | (1) | |||||||||||||
1973 | Portugal U21 | 2 | (0) | |||||||||||||
1972–1989 | Portugal | 43 | (15) | |||||||||||||
Honours
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
His professional career was spent mostly with two of the biggest clubs in the country, Benfica and Sporting. One of the most prolific strikers in the history of Portuguese football, he won the Silver Ball award twice, once with each team.
Jordão represented the Portugal national team for 16 years, appearing with them at Euro 1984.
Club career
Born in Benguela, Portuguese Angola, Jordão moved in his teens to Portugal's S.L. Benfica, making his professional debut in 1971–72. He played eighteen games and scored seven goals in his debut campaign, appearingly slightly less in his second, but still contributing five goals as the club won back-to-back Primeira Liga titles, only losing one match over two seasons.[1]
Jordão signed with Spanish side Real Zaragoza in the summer of 1976, scoring regularly but being relegated from La Liga.[2] Subsequently, he returned to his country of adoption and joined Sporting CP.[1]
Jordão enjoyed his best years with the Lions, scoring in double figures in six of his first seven seasons, which included a combined 57 goals in the seasons when the team won the league (1980 and 1982). At the age of 35 he moved to Vitória de Setúbal, reuniting with former Sporting teammate Manuel Fernandes, another prolific veteran goalscorer; he finished his career two years later, having scored 212 goals in the Portuguese top level alone.[1]
International career
In early 1972, Jordão won the first of his 43 caps for Portugal, against Cyprus in the 1974 FIFA World Cup qualifiers. Also in that year he was picked for the squad that lost the Brazilian Independence Cup, 0–1 to hosts Brazil.[1]
On 13 November 1983, Jordão scored the decisive goal to beat the Soviet Union, as the national side won 1–0 in Lisbon and qualified for UEFA Euro 1984.[1] In the final stages they reached the semi-finals, where the player scored twice against hosts France in Marseille on 23 June – Portugal led 2–1 with only six minutes to go in extra-time, after individual efforts and assists by Fernando Chalana, but eventually lost 2–3.[3][4]
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 the Saltillo Affair at the 1986 FIFA World Cup.[5]
Later life
After he retired, Jordão moved away from the football world and became a painter and a sculptor.[1] He died on 18 October 2019 at the age of 67, having been hospitalised with heart problems in Cascais.[5] Fernando Gomes, the president of the Portuguese Football Federation, delivered a statement describing him as "peerless".[6]
Career statistics
International
Portugal[7] | ||
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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 |
International goals
Goal | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1 | 29 March 1972 | Estádio da Luz (1954), Lisbon, Portugal | 4–0 | 4–0 | 1974 World Cup qualification | |
2 | 6 July 1972 | Mineirão, Belo Horizonte, Brazil | 1–0 | 1–0 | Brazilian Independence Cup | |
3 | 14 November 1973 | Estádio José Alvalade (1956), Lisbon, Portugal | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1974 World Cup qualification | |
4 | 9 October 1977 | Idrætsparken, Copenhagen, Denmark | 0–1 | 2–4 | 1978 World Cup qualification | |
5 | 24 September 1980 | Stadio Luigi Ferraris, Genoa, Italy | 1–1 | 3–1 | Friendly | |
6 | 19 November 1980 | Estádio da Luz (1954), Lisbon, Portugal | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1982 World Cup qualification | |
7 | 17 December 1980 | Estádio da Luz (1954), Lisbon, Portugal | 2–0 | 3–0 | 1982 World Cup qualification | |
8 | 28 October 1981 | Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan, Israel | 1–1 | 4–1 | 1982 World Cup qualification | |
9 | 21 September 1983 | Estádio José Alvalade (1956), Lisbon, Portugal | 1–0 | 5–0 | Euro 1984 qualifying | |
10 | 13 November 1983 | Estádio da Luz (1954), Lisbon, Portugal | 1–0 | 1–0 | Euro 1984 qualifying | |
11 | 2 June 1984 | Estádio Nacional, Lisbon, Portugal | 1–0 | 2–3 | Friendly | |
12 | 2 June 1984 | Estádio Nacional, Lisbon, Portugal | 2–1 | 2–3 | Friendly | |
13 | 23 June 1984 | Stade Vélodrome, Marseille, France | 1–1 | 3–2 | UEFA Euro 1984 | |
14 | 23 June 1984 | Stade Vélodrome, Marseille, France | 1–2 | 3–2 | UEFA Euro 1984 | |
15 | 14 November 1984 | Estádio José Alvalade (1956), Lisbon, Portugal | 1–0 | 1–3 | 1986 World Cup qualification |
Honours
Club
Benfica[8]
- Primeira Liga: 1971–72, 1972–73, 1974–75, 1975–76[9]
- Taça de Portugal: 1971–72
- Primeira Liga: 1979–80, 1981–82
- Taça de Portugal: 1977–78, 1981–82
- Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira: 1982
Individual
- Bola de Prata: 1975–76, 1979–80[10]
- Portuguese Footballer of the Year: 1980[11]
References
- Tadeia, António (9 August 2016). "Começou por ser o sucessor adivinhado para Eusébio no Benfica e acabou por ser o parceiro ideal de Manuel Fernandes no Sporting. Jordão não quer hoje nada com o futebol, mas está no lote dos cinco maiores avançados da história do futebol português" [He started out as Eusébio's thought-of successor at Benfica and ended up being Manuel Fernandes' ideal partner at Sporting. Jordão does not want to have anything to do with football nowadays, but he ranks amongst the top five forwards in the history of Portuguese football.] (in Portuguese). António Tadeia. Archived from the original on 8 July 2017. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
- "Muere Rui Jordão, exjugador del Real Zaragoza" [Death of Rui Jordão, former Real Zaragoza player]. Heraldo de Aragón (in Spanish). 18 October 2019. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
- "EURO's greatest games". UEFA. 24 June 2008. Retrieved 5 May 2010.
- "Platini faz a diferença em meia-final de sonho" [Platini makes the difference in dream semi-final] (in Portuguese). UEFA. 4 October 2003. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
- Fernandes, Nuno (18 October 2019). "Morreu Rui Jordão, o grande goleador que se zangou com o futebol" [Death of Rui Jordão, the great goalscorer who became angry with football]. Diário de Notícias (in Portuguese). Retrieved 18 October 2019.
- "FPF destaca Rui Jordão como figura ímpar" [PFF highlights Rui Jordão as a peerless figure]. A Bola (in Portuguese). 18 October 2019. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
- "Jordão". European Football. Retrieved 28 August 2015.
- Guerreiro, Pedro (18 October 2019). "Morreu Jordão, antigo jogador do Sporting e do Benfica" [Death of Jordão, former Sporting and Benfica player]. Público (in Portuguese). Retrieved 18 October 2019.
- "Especial 'Tetra'" ['Tetra' special edition]. Mística (in Portuguese). No. 33. Portugal: Impresa Publishing. April–June 2017. p. 94. ISSN 3846-0823.
- Claro, Paulo; Preston, Simon; Nunes, João; Di Maggio, Roberto. "Portugal – List of Topscorers". RSSSF. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
- Conceição Silva, Rui Manuel. "Portugal – Footballer of the Year". RSSSF. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
External links
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- National team data (in Portuguese)
- Rui Jordão at National-Football-Teams.com