Rui Jordão
Appearance
![]() Jordão in 1972 | |||||||||||||||||
Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Rui Manuel Trindade Jordão | ||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 9 August 1952 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Benguela, Angola | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 18 October 2019 | (aged 67)||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Cascais, Portugal | ||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Striker | ||||||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
Sporting Benguela | |||||||||||||||||
1970–1971 | Benfica | ||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
1971–1976 | Benfica | 90 | (63) | ||||||||||||||
1976–1977 | Zaragoza | 33 | (14) | ||||||||||||||
1977–1987 | Sporting CP | 207 | (137) | ||||||||||||||
1987–1989 | Vitória Setúbal | 60 | (12) | ||||||||||||||
Total | 390 | (226) | |||||||||||||||
National team | |||||||||||||||||
1971 | Portugal U18 | 7 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
1973 | Portugal U21 | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
1972–1989 | Portugal | 43 | (15) | ||||||||||||||
Honours
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
Rui Manuel Trindade Jordão (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈʁuj ʒuɾˈðɐ̃w̃]; 9 August 1952 – 18 October 2019) was a Portuguese footballer. He played with Benfica and Sporting for most of his career. He won the Silver Ball award twice, once with each team.
Jordão represented the Portugal national team for 16 years from 1972 through 1989.
Jordão died on 18 October, 2019 while at a hospital in Cascais, Portugal due to heart disease at the age of 67.[1]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "FPF destaca Rui Jordão como figura ímpar" [PFF highlights Rui Jordão as a peerless figure]. A Bola (in Portuguese). 18 October 2019. Archived from the original on 18 October 2019. Retrieved 18 October 2019.