Fernando Peyroteo

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Fernando Peyroteo
Full name	Fernando Baptista de Seixas Peyroteo de Vasconcelos
Date of birth	March 10, 1918
Place of birth	Humpata, Angola, Portuguese Empire
Date of death	November 28, 1978 (aged 60)
Place of death	Lisbon, Portugal
Playing position	Striker
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1937-1949 1949-1950	Sporting Belenenses	197 (330) - (-)
National team
1938-1949	Portugal	20 (15)
Teams managed
1961	Portugal
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Fernando Baptista de Seixas Peyroteo de Vasconcelos (born March 10, 1918 in Humpata, Angola – died Lisbon, November 28, 1978) was a Portuguese footballer.

He was a leading man as a forward both for the National team as for Sporting, where he was a member of the legendary wing of the "Cinco Violinos" ("Five Violins"), with Jesus Correia, Vasques, Albano and José Travassos. He has the best goal rate by game of football's history.

1 Bio
2 Family relationship
3 References
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[edit] Bio

Peyroteo was born and began playing football in Angola, at Sporting of Luanda Club. In 1937, when he was 19, he moved to Portugal where he was hired by Sporting Club de Portugal.^[1]

Peyroteo scored 330 goals in 197 league games,^[2] establishing him as the Portuguese first division (nowadays known as BWINLiga) All-Time-Topscorer, surpassing Benfica's legendary striker Eusébio, who has a record of 319 league goals. He is also the soccer player with best rate of goal by game (1,6751) in soccer's history, leading a select list of the only 15 players who have more than a goal by game.^[2]

Among other records Peyroteo scored once nine goals in one match (against Leça, 1941/42), eight goals in another (against Boavista, 1948/49), in three ocasions six goals, in twelve matches five goals, and in seventeen matches four goals.^[1]

He only had 20 caps for the National Team, but he scored 15 goals, since his first game, in 14 April 1938, aged 20, in a 1-1 draw with Germany, until his last appearance, in 20 March 1949, aged 31, in a 1-1 draw with Spain.

He moved to Belenenses, in 1949/50, but after only one season, Peyroteo left professional football, to start a coaching career. He was the National Team manager, in 1961, during the last two World Cup qualifiers, but missed his purpose.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Family relationship

José Couceiro, manager of Portugal's Under-21 Team, is Peyroteo's grand-nephew. António César de Vasconcelos Correia, 1st Viscount and 1st Count de Torres Novas and 93rd Governor of India, was his great-uncle. Augusto de Vasconcelos was his second cousin once removed.

His paternal grandfather was Spanish.