Fernando Peyroteo

This name uses Portuguese naming customs. The first or maternal family name is Seixas and the second or paternal family name is Peyroteo.
Fernando Peyroteo
Personal information
Full nameFernando Baptista de Seixas Peyroteo de Vasconcelos
Date of birth10 March 1918
Place of birthHumpata, Angola
Date of death28 November 1978 (aged 60)
Place of deathLisbon, Portugal
Playing positionStriker
Youth career
Sporting Luanda
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps†(Gls)†
1937–1949Sporting CP197(331)
Total197(331)
National team
1938–1949Portugal20(14)
Teams managed
1961Portugal
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Fernando Baptista de Seixas Peyroteo de Vasconcelos (10 March 1918 – 28 November 1978) was a Portuguese footballer who played as a striker.

He played his entire career with Sporting Clube de Portugal, scoring 544 goals all games comprised, winning eleven major titles and being crowned his country's top division scorer on six occasions.[1][2]

Club career

Born in Humpata, Huíla Province, Portuguese Angola, Peyroteo arrived at Sporting Clube de Portugal on 26 June 1937. He went on to be part of the club's offensive line that included Albano, Jesus Correia, Travassos and Manuel Vasques and was dubbed the Cinco Violinos (Five Violins), scoring 34 goals in only 14 games in his first year to win both the Lisbon Championship and the Taça de Portugal, then named Portuguese Championship.

During his spell with the Lisbon side Peyroteo won five Primeira Liga trophies, five domestic cups and the first Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira match at the new Estádio Nacional, netting twice in the latter for an eventual 3–2 extra time win against S.L. Benfica. He scored nine times in a single game against Leça F.C. and eight against Boavista FC, and his goals-per-game ratio was arguably the best in the history of football, at 1.6 successful strikes per game.[3][4]

Peyroteo contributed with 39 goals in the 1948–49 campaign as the Lions conquered their third league in a row. He retired shortly after at the age of 31, with the revenue from the testimonial match against Atlético Madrid being used to pay debts he had collected with a sportswear shop he had opened.[1]

Peyroteo subsequently moved back to Angola, but returned eventually to Portugal to coach the national team: after his second game, a 2–4 loss at minnows Luxembourg for the 1962 FIFA World Cup qualifiers which brought young Eusébio his first cap, he was relieved of his duties, and quit football altogether. After a veterans match in Barcelona, he was forced to undergo surgery that brought complications later, leading to the amputation of one leg; he died in the Portuguese capital at the age of 60.[1]

International career

Peyroteo played 20 times for Portugal during nearly 11 years, scoring 14 goals. He made his debut on 24 April 1938 in an exhibition game with Germany in Frankfurt.[5]

Honours

Club

Sporting

Individual

Personal life

José Couceiro, a football player and later a manager, is Peyroteo's grandnephew. António César de Vasconcelos Correia, 1st Viscount and 1st Count of Torres Novas and the 93rd Governor of Portuguese India, was his great-uncle; Augusto de Vasconcelos was his second cousin once removed.

Peyroteo's paternal grandfather was Spanish.[1][6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Peyroteo" (in Portuguese). Wiki Sporting. 24 March 2009. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
  2. ↑ "Variety the spice of Sporting life". FIFA.com. 24 March 2009. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
  3. ↑ "Fernando Peyroteu" (in Portuguese). Centenário Sporting. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
  4. ↑ "Portugal – All-Time Topscorers". RSSSF. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
  5. ↑ "Fernando Peyroteo". European Football. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
  6. ↑ "Fernando Batista Seixas Peyroteo de Vasconcelos" (in Portuguese). Geneall. Retrieved 24 October 2013.

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