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PLAYER As a junior player, he started at the junior team of FC Porto . As professional player, he played for Académica De Coimbra and SL Benfica , before ending his career in Belenenses , at 1977/78, due to a serious injury. During his player days in Coimbra , Artur Jorge was student at the Faculty of Letters of the University Of Coimbra , graduating in Germanic Philology by the University Of Lisbon in 1975 , after his transfer for Lisbon's Benfica. In the overall, as a player, he won four Portuguese Football Championship s, two Portuguese Football Cup s and two silver boots, as the prize for best goalscorers. Despite having been one of the top scorers of Benfica during his time at the Lisbon team, the concorrence of other great forwards, like Eusébio, Jordão and Nené, explain why he had only 16 caps for Portugal National Team , 2 for Académica , 13 for Benfica and 1 for Belenenses , scoring a single goal. His debut was, at 27 March 1967, a 1-1 tie with Italy, in a friendly match, in Rome, and his last game, at 30 March 1977, resulted in a 1-0 win over Switzerland, in another friendly match, in Funchal. He was a member of the squad that reached the Independence Brazil Cup final, in 1972, the highest point of his international career. MANAGER After his player career, he went to Leipzig in then East Germany , to study football and training methodology. He signed at F.C. Porto for the 1984/85 season, where he won three National Champion titles (1984/85, 1985/86, 1989/90) and two Cups of Portugal (1988, 1991). His greatest success was to win the , Vitesse Arnhem , CD Tenerife , CSKA Moscow , and the Portugal National Football Team , first, still as FC Porto coach, for 1989/90 and 1990/91, later for the 1996/97 and 1997/98 seasons, Switzerland National Football Team , and since 2005, Cameroon National Football Team . |
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