Fernando Cabrita

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Fernando Cabrita
Personnel
Surname Fernando da Silva Cabrita
birthday May 1, 1923
place of birth Lagoa ,  Portugal
date of death 22nd September 2014
Place of death Lisbon ,  Portugal
position striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1942-1951 SC Olhanense
1951-1953 SCO Angers
1953-1957 SC Covilhã
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
Portugal 7 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1954-1958 FC Estrela de Unhais da Serra
1959-1960 Portimonense SC
1967-1968 SL Benfica
1970-1972 União de Tomar
1973-1974 SL Benfica
1977-1979 SC Beira Mar
1980 Rio Ave FC
1981 Rio Ave FC
1981-1982 Académico Viseu FC
1983-1984 Portugal
1984-1986 Penafiel FC
1986-1987 CF Estrela Amadora
1987-1988 Raja Casablanca
1988-1989 Académico Viseu FC
1990-1991 Raja Casablanca
1992 CF Esperança Lagos
1 Only league games are given.

Fernando da Silva Cabrita (born May 1, 1923 in Lagoa , † September 22, 2014 in Lisbon ) was a Portuguese football player and football coach.

Career

Cabrita began his career in 1942, during World War II, with SC Olhanense . Six years after the war, he left his native Portugal and played for the French club SCO Angers for two years . He then returned to Portugal and played for SC Covilhã for four more years .

Then Cabrita got into the coaching business. From the 1961/62 season he was assistant and youth coach at Benfica. After the departure of the Chilean head coach Fernando Riera at the end of November 1967 - he complained about the lack of salary payments - Cabarita took his position. After he lost 2-0 at CUF Barreiro on matchday 21 in early April and thus lost the championship lead for the second time, Otto Glória was transferred to him. Benfica lost none of the remaining five league games under this and the two point deficit against Sporting CP could be converted into a three point lead, which resulted in the successful title defense. In 1969 the title was again defended in this composition. In addition, the trophy was won . At the beginning of February 1970, on the 18th matchday, another defeat against CUF Barreiro, this time 0-1 at home, was fatal. This time he was released together with Otto Glória. Under his successor José Augusto it was no longer enough for the championship, although the cup could be defended.

At the end of September Cabarita returned to the head coach position at Benfica after the Englishman Jimmy Hagan who won the championship and the cup once in the previous three seasons, after three matchdays because of a fight over a farewell game for the world star Eusébio . This time too, Cabarita failed to win the title and at the end of the season he was replaced by the Yugoslav Milorad Pavić .

From 1977 to 1979 he was with SC Beira Mar who was stable in the lower half of the table in those years. In 1980 and 1981 he had times with the northern Portuguese Rio Ave FC who rose to the first division in this phase. He spent the 1981/82 season at the first division club Académico de Viseu FC, which ended up being 14th.

After Otto Glória resigned from office in mid-1983 after a 0: 5 qualification for the 1984 European Championship and a 0: 4 in a friendly against Brazil, Cabarita became head of the national team and as such was a coaching staff consisting of António "Toni" Oliveira , José Augusto and Antônio Morais . He was able to introduce himself well with three wins, including a 1-0 at home against the USSR, and still successfully qualify for the European Championship.

With the team around star striker Nené he was able to prevail at the tournament in France against Germany, among others, and only failed in the semifinals, after extra time, against the eventual European champions France around Michel Platini with 2: 3, after Portugal still up to the 114th minute ahead lay.

That was his last game as head of the Portuguese national team, where he was succeeded by José Augusto Torres . Less significant engagements followed until he won the national championship with the top Moroccan team in the season and thus won his only major title as head coach.

In 1992, when he was 69, he had his last engagement with third division club CF Esperança Lagos .

He died on September 22, 2014 at the age of 91 from lung failure at the age of 91 in a Lisbon hospital. The Estádio Municipal Fernando Cabrita in Lagos in the Algarve , with a capacity of 4600 people, bears his name.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fernando Cabrita est décédé
personal data
SURNAME Cabrita, Fernando
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Silva Cabrita, Fernando there
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Lagoa , Portugal
DATE OF DEATH 22nd September 2014
Place of death Lisbon