Mário Moinhos | |
Full Name: | Mário Jorge Moinhos Matos |
Birth Date: | 13 May 1949 |
Birth Place: | Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal |
Death Place: | Portugal |
Height: | 1.83 m |
Position: | Forward |
Youthclubs1: | Vilanovense |
Years1: | 1965–1969 |
Years2: | 1969–1973 |
Caps2: | 100 |
Goals2: | 28 |
Years3: | 1973–1977 |
Caps3: | 74 |
Goals3: | 21 |
Years4: | 1977–1980 |
Caps4: | 83 |
Goals4: | 15 |
Years5: | 1980–1984 |
Caps5: | 94 |
Goals5: | 13 |
Totalcaps: | 351 |
Totalgoals: | 77 |
Nationalyears1: | 1975–1976 |
Nationalcaps1: | 7 |
Nationalgoals1: | 1 |
Mário Jorge Moinhos Matos (13 May 1949 – 7 November 2023), known as Moinhos, was a Portuguese footballer who played as a forward.
Born in Vila Nova de Gaia, Porto District, Moinhos started playing professionally in 1969, with Porto-based club Boavista FC. After two solid last seasons, especially 1972–73 when he scored 15 goals in 29 games to help his team to the seventh position,[1] he moved to Primeira Liga giants S.L. Benfica.[2]
During his four-year spell in Lisbon, Moinhos appeared intermittently but did contribute 57 matches and 20 goals from 1974 to 1976,[3] [4] eventually helping Benfica to three consecutive national championships. In 1977 he returned to Boavista, where he remained three further seasons.[2]
Moinhos finished his career after four years with S.C. Espinho, retiring at the age of 35 after the end of the 1983–84 campaign with his side being relegated.[2] In the following decades he would again work with Boavista, in its coaching departments,[5] while also being undermined by health problems and poor finances.[6]
Whilst at Benfica, Moinhos won seven caps for Portugal, scoring once.[7] He made his debut on 24 April 1975 in a 2–0 friendly win in Paris against France,[8] and appeared for the last time on 16 October 1976 in a 2–0 home loss to Poland, at the beginning of the 1978 FIFA World Cup qualifiers.
Moinhos died on 7 November 2023, at the age of 74.[9]
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