Acúrsio Carrelo

Acúrsio Freire Alves Carrelo , also Acúrcio Freire Alves Carrelo (born March 16, 1931 in Lourenço Marques, today Maputo , Mozambique ; † January 9, 2010 in Portugal ), was a Portuguese national roller hockey and football player . At club level he was active for FC Porto , with whom he was twice champion and won the cup.

The European-born Carrelo originally played in the colonial capital Lourenço Marques for Ferroviário and was transferred to FC Porto in the motherland in 1955 because of his striking talent. In the 1950s, soccer was still largely an amateur sport in Portugal. Often players also played other sports. Acúrsio Carrelo shared his interests between roller hockey , where he was one of the pioneers of the sport at FC Porto and was active as a striker, and football. In both sports he competed for the Portuguese national team.

From the seasons 1955/56, in which he made his debut as a 25-year-old, to 1960/61, he was a total of 59 goals for the football team of FC Porto. Under the coaches Dorival Knippel Yustrich and Béla Guttmann , a pioneer in the professionalization of Portuguese football, he won the championships of 1956 and 1959 - the club's last championship until 1978 - as well as the cup of 1957, although he did so in earlier years Cup final, second man behind the multiple national goalkeeper Manuel Henriques de Pinho was. In 1958 he was the only goalkeeper to date in a Portuguese first division game - in a 3-1 win against Belenenses Lisbon in the Estádio do Restelo in Lisbon - to accommodate a tee shot directly in the opposing goal.

On May 21, 1959, he made his debut in Gothenburg in a 2-0 defeat in a friendly international match against Sweden in the Portuguese national football team . With the national team, he also took part in the qualifying games for the European Championship in 1960 , where Portugal initially prevailed against the GDR , but in the quarter-finals after a 2-1 home win against the eventual finalist Yugoslavia in the second leg on May 22, 1960 in Belgrade with 1 : 5 defeated. This was his eighth and last international match. His better-known international teammates included Mário Coluna and Domiciano Cavém , both from SL Benfica , and Germano de Figueiredo from Lisbon's Atlético Clube de Portugal , who later also played for Benfica.

After the 1961 cup final in his home Estádio das Antas against Leixões SC with 0-2 lost, he ended his football career and returned to Mozambique. At Porto he was followed by his substitute Américo Lopes , who was also to become a national player.

In Mozambique he was again involved in roller hockey and was a player- coach at Sporting Lourenço Marques 1962/63 champion of the Portuguese colony at the time. But soon he returned to Porto, where he, now as a goalkeeper, continued his roller hockey activity for the time being and, for example, won the city championship in 1969.

After his death he was buried in the Centro Social e Paroquial of Oeiras near Lisbon.

Web links

• Acúrsio Carrelo (1931-2010) - um jogador de futebol de Moçambique no Futebol Clube do Porto , The Delagoa Bay Company dated December 20, 2011.
• Acúrcio , Estrelas do FCP (as of November 13, 2012).
• Acúrsio Freire Alves Carrelo , ForaDeJogo (as of November 13, 2012) (club match statistics).
• Acúrcio , European Football - national team matches 1872-2012 database (as of November 13, 2012).