Jaime Magalhães

Jaime Magalhães

Personal information
Full name	Jaime Fernandes Magalhães
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
1976–1980	Porto
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1980–1995	Porto	276	(30)
1995–1996	Leça	4	(0)
International career
1981–1993	Portugal	20	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Jaime Fernandes Magalhães (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈʒajm(ɨ) mɐɡɐˈʎɐ̃ȷ̃ʃ]; born 10 July 1962) is a retired Portuguese footballer who played as a right midfielder.

During his professional career, he represented F.C. Porto for 15 seasons.

Club career

Born in Porto, Magalhães was 14 when he joined local powerhouse Futebol Clube do Porto's youth system. He made his senior debut four years later, as the northerners were then coached by Austrian Hermann Stessl.

Magalhães was an important player in the 1983–84 season, as Porto finished second to S.L. Benfica in the league, also reaching that campaign's UEFA Cup Winners' Cup final; in the following year, he scored a career-best 11 times, as the club managed to end in the top position in domestic competition.

Magalhães had several offers to leave Porto, but ultimately stayed and won a total of seven leagues, adding in 1986–87 the European Cup, having played the entire final against FC Bayern Munich.

Under Bobby Robson, he became a fringe player, and left Porto in the 1995 summer, having appeared in well more than 300 official matches; a move to another side in the north, Leça FC, was then arranged, but the he retired at the end of the season, with the modest club maintaining its top flight status, but with the player only contributing with four games.

Magalhães was chosen by Portuguese sports newspaper Record as one of the best 100 Portuguese football players ever.

International career

Magalhães made his debut for Portugal on 18 November 1981, against Scotland, in a 2–1 victory for the 1982 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, at the age of just 19.

He was overlooked for the squad that appeared at UEFA Euro 1984, but represented the nation at the 1986 World Cup, gaining a total of 20 caps (no goals).

Honours

• European Cup: 1986–87
• UEFA Super Cup: 1987
• Intercontinental Cup: 1987
• Portuguese League: 1984–85, 1985–86, 1987–88, 1989–90, 1991–92, 1992–93, 1994–95
• Portuguese Cup: 1983–84, 1987–88, 1990–91, 1993–94
• Portuguese Supercup: 1981, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1991, 1993

References

• DIAS, Rui, Record – 100 Melhores do Futebol Português – Volume I (Record – The 100 best of Portuguese Football, 2002, EDISPORT).

External links

• Profile at Zerozero
• Stats at ForaDeJogo Template:Pt icon
• Jaime Magalhães at National-Football-Teams.com