Quarenta | |
Full Name: | Luís Gonzaga Lebrêgo |
Birth Date: | 17 September 1910 |
Birth Place: | Portugal |
Death Place: | Belém, Brazil |
Position: | Forward |
Years1: | 1927–1933 |
Years2: | 1933 |
Years3: | 1934–1945 |
Pcupdate: | 31 January 2024 |
Luís Gonzaga Lebrêgo (17 September 1910 – 28 March 1984), better known as Quarenta, was a Portuguese-born professional footballer who played as a forward.
Born in Portugal, and orphaned by his father and mother, he was adopted by priests from the Dom Macedo Costa Asylum, and taken to Brazil in the first months of his life. He gained the nickname Quarenta (Forty) because that was his registration number at the orphanage.[1]
He began his career as a player at the age of 17 at Paysandu, and with the club he won state tournaments on ten occasions, in addition to scoring more than 200 goals for the club.[2] He had a brief spell at Vasco in 1933.[3]
Quarenta is father of the footballer Quarentinha.
1928, 1929, 1931, 1932, 1934, 1939, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945