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Manuel Duarte
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Manuel Almeida Duarte (29 May 1945 – 2 September 2022) was a Portuguese footballer who played as a striker.
Key Information
Club career
[edit]Duarte was born in Celorico de Basto, Braga District. In a 16–year professional career he played for Académica de Coimbra, Leixões SC, Sporting CP, FC Porto, Varzim S.C. and AD Fafe, amassing Primeira Liga totals of 79 matches and 32 goals over nine seasons and competing in the Segunda Liga with the last two clubs. He retired at the age of 39, after five years in amateur football with four sides.
Duarte scored a career-best 11 goals (in only 19 games) in the 1966–67 campaign, helping Sporting to the fourth position.[1]
International career
[edit]Duarte earned two caps for Portugal in 1966, being an unused squad member at that year's FIFA World Cup.[2]
Death
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Época 1966/67: Primeira Divisão" [1966/67 season: First Division] (in Portuguese). Arquivos da Bola. 17 October 2007. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
- ^ Paixão, Paulo; Castanheira, José Pedro (13 July 2016). "A lenda dos Magriços começou há 50 anos" [The legend of the Magriços started 50 years ago]. Expresso (in Portuguese). Retrieved 9 April 2020.
- ^ "Manuel Duarte, um dos "magriços", morre aos 77 anos" [Manuel Duarte, one of the "magriços", dies at the age of 77]. Diário de Notícias (in Portuguese). 2 September 2022. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
External links
[edit]- Manuel Duarte at ForaDeJogo (archived)
- Manuel Duarte at National-Football-Teams.com
- Manuel Duarte at EU-Football.info (archive)
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