Rui Jordão
| Rui Jordão | ||
.jpg) Rui Jordão in 1972
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Rui Manuel Trindade Jordão | |
| birthday | August 9, 1952 | |
| place of birth | Benguela , Angola | |
| date of death | 18th October 2019 | |
| Place of death | Cascais , Portugal | |
| size | 179 cm | |
| position | striker | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1969 | Sporting Benguela | |
| 1970-1976 | Benfica Lisbon | 127 (79) |
| 1976-1977 | Real Zaragoza | 33 (14) |
| 1977-1986 | Sporting Lisbon | 282 (184) |
| 1987-1988 | Vitória Setúbal | 61 (12) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1972-1989 | Portugal | 43 (15) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Rui Manuel Trindade Jordão (born August 9, 1952 in Benguela , Angola , † October 18, 2019 in Cascais ) was a Portuguese football player . He started his career at Sporting Benguela and signed with Benfica Lisbon in the 1971/72 season .
Rui Jordão scored six goals in seventeen games in his first season. In the same year he also became a player in the Portuguese national soccer team . He scored his first goal against Cyprus in a World Cup qualifier. In the same year he lost with Portugal against the Brazilian national soccer team 0-1. He played 43 times for the Portuguese national soccer team, from 1972 to 1989, scoring fifteen goals. He experienced the high point of his career in 1984 when he scored two goals against the French national soccer team in the semi-finals of the European Championship .
In the championship he was twice Portuguese top scorer for Benfica in the 1975/1976 season with 30 goals and for Sporting in the 1979/80 season with 31 goals each in 30 games.
Jordão ended his active career as a professional footballer in 1989.
On October 18, 2019, Jordão died of heart failure in Hospital de Cascais, Cascais, Portugal.
title
societies
- Portuguese champion (6): 1971/72, 1972/73, 1974/75, 1975/76, 1979/80, 1981/82
- Portuguese Cup Winner (3): 1972, 1978, 1982
- Portuguese Super Cup winner : 1982
Personally
- Portugal's Footballer of the Year : 1980
- Portuguese top scorer: 1975/76 (30 goals), 1979/80 (31 goals)
Web links
- Rui Jordão in the Portuguese Football Association database (Portuguese)
- Rui Jordão in the database of footballzz.de
Individual evidence
| predecessor | Office | successor |
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José Alberto Costa |
Portugal's footballer of the year 1980 |
Antonio Oliveira |
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Jordão, Rui |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jordão, Rui Manuel Trindade (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 9, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Benguela , Angola |
| DATE OF DEATH | 18th October 2019 |
| Place of death | Cascais , Portugal |