Personal information | |||
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Full name | Vítor Marcolino da Silva | ||
Date of birth | 20 February 1909 | ||
Place of birth | Lisbon, Portugal | ||
Date of death | 21 July 1982 | (aged 73)||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Youth career | |||
1921–1924 | CIF | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
1926–1927 | Carcavelinhos | ||
1927–1936 | Benfica | 79 | (62) |
International career | |||
1928–1936 | Portugal | 19 | (8) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Vítor Marcolino da Silva (20 February 1909 – 21 July 1982) was a Portuguese footballer. Listed by Benfica, as one of the club's best forwards in history, Silva represented the club on 131 official games, scoring 108 goals. [1]
Born in Lisbon, Silva represented Club Internacional de Foot-ball in his early teens, but as club stopped competing; he moved to Hóquei CP, and later Carcavelinhos. [2] In 1927, Benfica made his first paid transfer, when they paid for Silva move. He made his debut on 8 April 1928 in a loss against Sporting. [3] [2]
First deployed as an outside forward, he was quickly moved to the center, where his goalscoring abilities made him famous, using the flying header as trademark. [2] Over the next seasons, he won three Campeonato de Portugal, the club first Primeira Liga, assuming captain armband from 1931 to 1934. [4] He retired at only 27 years old, due to a thrombophlebitis, with a match in his honor on 13 September 1937 against Sporting. [2]
Silva returned to his day job of coachtrimmer, also collaborating with Benfica football section for many years. [2]
Silva had 19 caps for Portugal, scoring 8 goals. His first cap came at only 18, on 8 January 1928 in a 2–2 draw with Spain in Lisbon. The highlight of his international career was his presence at the 1928 Football Olympic Tournament, [5] where he played in all the three matches, scoring three goals, one in each of them and being the top scorer for Portugal, who was eliminated at the quarter-finals by Egypt, due to a 1–2 loss. [2] He represented the national team for the last time in a 1–3 loss to Germany in Lisbon on 27 February 1936, in a friendly game. [6]
No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1. | 15 April 1928 | Campo do Ameal, Porto, Portugal | Italy | 3–1 | 4–1 | Friendly |
2. | 27 May 1928 | Olympic Stadium, Amsterdam, Netherlands | Chile | 1–2 | 4–2 | Football at the 1928 Summer Olympics |
3. | 29 May 1928 | Old Stadion, Amsterdam, Netherlands | Yugoslavia | 1–0 | 2–1 | |
4. | 4 June 1928 | Olympic Stadium, Amsterdam, Netherlands | Egypt | 1–2 | 1–2 | |
5. | 1 December 1929 | San Siro, Milan, Italy | Italy | 1–1 | 1–6 | Friendly |
6. | 31 May 1931 | Estádio do Lumiar, Lisbon, Portugal | Belgium | 2–2 | 3–2 | |
7. | 18 March 1934 | Estádio do Lumiar, Lisbon, Portugal | Spain | 1–0 | 1–2 | 1934 World Cup Qualification |
8. | 27 February 1936 | Estádio do Lumiar, Lisbon, Portugal | Germany | 1–3 | 1–3 | Friendly |
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