Rafael Correia | |
Fullname: | Rafael António Correia |
Birth Date: | 5 April 1915 |
Birth Place: | Almada, Portugal |
Death Place: | Trafaria, Portugal |
Position: | Forward |
Years1: | 1934–1946 |
Clubs1: | Belenenses |
Caps1: | 239 |
Goals1: | 160 |
Nationalyears1: | 1934–1948 |
Nationalteam1: | Portugal |
Nationalcaps1: | 6 |
Rafael António Correia (5 April 1915 – October 1958), was a Portuguese footballer, who played as forward.
Correia gained 6 caps for the Portugal national team, and made his debut 6 November 1938 against Switzerland in Lausanne, in a 0-1 defeat.
After his retirement from football, he ran a bar in Trafaria, Portugal. Italian newspaper La Stampa reported on 17 October 1958 that Correia, probably to avenge some slanders about him, assaulted three men with a gun, killing one of them and seriously injuring the other two, and finally shot himself.[1]