Jaime Graça

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Jaime da Silva Graça pron. IPA: ['ʒaim(ɨ) 'gɾasɐ] (born Setúbal, 10 January 1942) was a Portuguese football midfielder.

He had 36 caps for the National team, 12 of them as a Vitória Setúbal player, and 24 as a Benfica player. His first game was at 24 January 1965, in the 5-1 win over Turkey, for the World Cup qualifyings.

He was still at Vitória Setúbal during the World Cup 1966 finals in England. He moved to Benfica in 1966/67, were he played until 1974/5. He was at the Champions Cup final in 1968, lost to Manchester United. He did the Benfica equalizing goal.

He played again at the Independence Brazil Cup in 1972, were Portugal lost the final to Brasil, 0-1. That would be his last game for the National Team.

As a football manager, he was assistant manager to José Torres at the World Cup 1986 finals.

Portugal Portugal squad - 1966 World Cup 3rd place Portugal

1 Américo Lopes | 2 Joaquim Carvalho | 3 José Pereira | 4 Vicente Lucas | 5 Germano | 6 Fernando Peres | 7 Ernesto Figueiredo | 8 João Lourenço | 9 Hilário | 10 Mário Coluna | 11 António Simões | 12 José Augusto | 13 Eusébio | 14 Fernando Cruz | 15 Manuel Duarte | 16 Jaime Graça | 17 João Morais | 18 José Torres | 19 Custódio Pinto | 20 Alexandre Baptista | 21 José Carlos | 22 Alberto Festa | Coach: Otto Glória
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