Mario Wilson

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Mário Wilson (born October 17, 1929 in Lourenço Marques , Mozambique , † October 3, 2016 ) was a Portuguese - Mozambican football player and coach . Originally from Desportivo de Lourenço Marques , he moved to Sporting Lisbon in 1949 and became champions with the club. This was followed by many years at the Académica de Coimbra where he earned the nickname "Capitão Velho" ("Old Captain"). There he also had his first successes as a coach. In this role, he became the first Portuguese to become champions with SL Benfica in 1976 . There were also two cup wins. He coached numerous other clubs and failed in 1980 with the national team to qualify for the European Championship.

Life

Originally he played for the street team " Os Fura Redes " ("Holey Nets") led by his two brothers . At that time he was also interested in other sports such as athletics, basketball and volleyball. He soon found acceptance into the top team Desportivo de Lourenço Marques, today's Desportivo Maputo . After a short stopover at Clube Indo-Português , he moved to Sporting Lisbon in 1949 , where he was supposed to replace record goal scorer Fernando Peyroteo .

In his first season he quickly secured a regular place and scored 23 times in 21 league games, making him the top scorer of the runner-up. In the 1950/51 season Sporting became champions. Wilson, however, lost his regular place, although he scored 13 times in 17 games. The top scorer this time was Manuel Vasques who was also the national top scorer with 29 goals. After two seasons in which he scored 37 goals in 40 games, he moved to Académica de Coimbra , where he was team captain and remained until the end of his time as a player in 1963, defender in later years. In total, he came to Coimbra to 279 league games and 17 goals.

In 1964 he was the coach of the club from the old university town, which he led to the runner-up, the best placement in the club's history, and the cup final in 1967, but which was lost 3-2 to Vitória Setúbal in Lisbon . Under Wilson, Académica Coimbra was able to play the first two of 16 (as of 2016) games at European level in the Messestädte-Pokal 1968/69 in October 1968: after a 0-1 defeat in the exhibition cup at Olympique Lyon , Académica won the second leg with the same result . According to the rules at that time, there was a drawing of lots, in which the French were lucky. By the way, Artur Jorge played in Wilson's team at the time , who was to win the European Cup in 1987 as coach with FC Porto. Wilson stayed with Académica until November 1968.

Then Wilson was until the end of the 1969/70 season coach of the Lisbon suburban club CF “Os Belenenses” , with whom he was 8th and 7th.

In 1970/71 he led the two-time promoted FC Tirsense from Santo Tirso near Porto to ninth place in the first division.

The following season he was committed by Vitória Guimarães . In the previous year he finished 12th with the club in 1972. He stayed in the top third of the table and left in fifth place in 1975 to join Benfica Lisbon , where he became the first Portuguese coach in 1976 to win a national championship with the club. He wrote the saying, "Anyone who trains Benfica risks becoming champions".

After only one season, however, the Englishman John Mortimore took his place at Benfica. Wilson, however, was to return to the club several times and won the cup in 1979/80 - as a direct successor to Mortimore - and again in 1995/96, this time as the successor to Artur Jorge . Numerous other engagements took him to the end of the 1990s, including Boavista FC in Porto, again Académica Coimbra and the Moroccan top club FAR Rabat where he reached third and fourth place in the championship. In his last engagement 1997 to 1999 he managed with FC Alverca from the northern periphery of Lisbon for the first promotion to the first division and then 15th place and thus just about relegation. However, he was ten game days before the end of the season when Alverca was after a defeat by Benfica with one point behind a non-relegation place 17th, replaced by José Romão . At the end of October 1987 he was again at short notice for two game days at Benfica after the Adler parted company with Manuel José ; Graeme Souness became the new head coach in November.

From September 1978 to March 1980 he coached the Portuguese national team , with whom he failed to qualify for the 1980 European Championship finals behind Belgium and Austria but before Scotland.

In May 2012, he presented his biography, written by Carlos Rias, Mário Wilson o velho capitão , to the town hall of Coimbra in the hall of honor of the town hall, the salão nobre in the Câmara Municipal . He was also invited to the public presentation of the book in the megastore of his former club Benfica, in the presence of his daughter Ana, who was Miss Portugal in 1982, some prominent Benfica veterans, including Eusébio and Carlos Mozer , the Angolan singer Bonga , and the incumbent president of the Benfica association, Luís Filipe Vieira .

His son Mário Valdez Wilson (born April 25, 1954) also played for some time at Benfica and Académica. His son Bruno Wilson (born December 27, 1996) went through the youth department of Sporting CP before he came to some assignments in the second-rate second team of Sporting Braga from 2015 .

successes

player

  • Championship of Portugal: 1951.
    • Runner-up: 1950.

Trainer

  • Championship of Portugal: 1976.
    • Runner-up: 1967, 1996.
  • Cup of Portugal : 1980, 1996.
    • Finalist: 1967

Clubs as coaches

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Morreu Mário Wilson: Velho Capitão partiu aos 86 anos . Maisfutebol.iol.pt, October 3, 2016, accessed October 4, 2016 (Portuguese).
  2. ↑ Mário Wilson rodeado de amor .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Jogo da Vida - Jornal Record , May 9, 2012, accessed October 4, 2016 (Portuguese).@1@ 2Template: dead link / record.pt  
  3. ↑ Mário Wilson apresenta biografia .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Jogo da Vida - Jornal Record , June 7, 2012, accessed October 4, 2016 (Portuguese).@1@ 2Template: dead link / record.pt  
personal data
SURNAME Wilson, Mário
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese-Mozambican soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Lourenço Marques , Mozambique
DATE OF DEATH 3rd October 2016