António Simoes

António Simoes
Personnel
Surname	Antonio José Simões da Costa
birthday	December 14, 1943
place of birth	Corroios ,  Portugal
size	173 cm
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1961-1975	Benfica Lisbon	309 (45)
1975-1976	Boston Minutemen	27 0(5)
1976-1977	San Jose Earthquakes	33 0(0)
1978	New Jersey Americans
1979	Dallas tornado	6 0(1)
Indoor
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1979-1980	Detroit Lightning	2 0(0)
1980-1981	Chicago Horizon	20 0(7)
1981-1982	Kansas City Comets	3 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1962-1973	Portugal	46 0(3)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1982-1984	Phoenix Inferno
1984-1985	Las Vegas Americans (Co-Tr.)
1987-1991	Austin Sockadillos
1 Only league games are given.

António José Simões da Costa (* 14. December 1943 in Corroios ) is a former Portuguese footballer of the national team of his native country at the 1966 FIFA World Cup took part.

Career

Club career

António Simões began his football career at Portugal's most successful club, SL Benfica from Lisbon . Simões was born in Corroios , a town in the immediate vicinity of Lisbon, and played for Benfica from 1961 to 1975. During this time he was loaned out to smaller clubs, such as GD Estoril Praia or U Tomar, a lower-class club. During these fourteen years, which he spent intermittently in Lisbon, he won several titles with the club. Playing in a team with other Portuguese stars of the time such as Eusébio , José Augusto or Mário Coluna , António Simões won ten Portuguese championship titles together with Benfica Lisbon , the first in 1963 and the last in his senior year at Benfica in 1975. He was also five times won the Portuguese Cup, the Taça de Portugal . The big Benfica team of the early 1960s was also successful in Europe. In 1961 and 1962 they won the European Cup , the most important competition for club teams in Europe. While Simões was not yet in the professional squad of Benfica in 1961 , he was an integral part of the winning team the following year . He was also in the starting line-up in the final at the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam in the 5-3 win against Real Madrid .

When he left Lisbon for the United States in 1975 , he joined the Boston Minutemen . He stayed for a year and a half with the now dissolved club, which was then active in the top American football league , and played 27 games (5 goals). He then went on to the San José Earthquakes , for which he completed 33 league games by 1977. In 1979 he was again active in the NASL for six games for Dallas Tornado . Then he let his career in indoor soccer end. He also worked later as a coach at some lower-class American clubs.

National team

António Simões made 46 appearances for the Portuguese national football team in his career . He was first nominated in May 1961 for an international match in São Paulo against Brazil , where he was not used. A year later he played his first international match. In 1966, Portugal's national coach Otto Glória appointed him to the Portuguese squad for the World Cup in England. On the island, where Portugal first took part in a football world championship, Simões was used in all six Iberian games. In these six games he managed a goal, which he scored in the preliminary round match against reigning world champions Brazil (3-1) to make it 1-0. After the World Cup, in which Portugal finished third, his national team career lasted until 1973 when he made his last international match against Bulgaria .

Web links

• António Simões in the database of weltfussball.de
• António Simões in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
• rsssf.com Portugal international
• António Simões (details about career in NASL), nasljerseys.com
• complete list of his league games , foradejogo.net