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Artur Jorge
Personal information
Full name Artur Jorge Braga de Melo Teixeira
Date of birth February 13, 1946 (1946-02-13) (age 63)
Place of birth    Porto, Portugal
Playing position Striker
Senior career1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1964–1965
1965–1969
1969–1975
1975–1978
FC Porto
Académica
Benfica
Belenenses
Total
004 00(1)
096 0(72)
095 0(72)
051 0(14)
246 (159)   
National team
1967–1977 Portugal 016 00(1)
Teams managed
1980–1981
1981
1981–1983
1984–1987
1987–1989
1989–1991
1991–1994
1994–1995
1995–1996
1996–1997
1997–1998
1998
1998–1999
1999–2000
2000–2001
2001–2002
2002–2004
2004–2006
2006–2007
Vitória S.C.
Belenenses
Portimonense SC
FC Porto
Racing Paris
FC Porto/Portugal
Paris Saint Germain
Benfica
Switzerland
Portugal
CD Tenerife
Vitesse
Paris Saint Germain
Al-Nasr
Al-Hilal
Académica Coimbra
CSKA Moscow
Cameroon
Créteil

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

Artur Jorge Braga Melo Teixeira, better known as Artur Jorge (born February 13, 1946, in Porto) is a Portuguese football coach and a former football player. He was chosen by Portuguese sports newspaper 'Record' as one of the best 100 Portuguese football players of all time.

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Club career

As a junior player, he started at the junior team of FC Porto. As professional player, he played for Académica de Coimbra and Benfica, before ending his career in Belenenses, in the 1977–78 season, due to a serious injury. During his player days in Coimbra, Jorge was a student at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra, graduating in Germanic Philology from the University of Lisbon in 1975, after his transfer to Lisbon's Benfica. During his career as a player, he won four Portuguese Football Championships, two Portuguese Football Cups and two silver boots, as the prize for best goalscorer. Despite having been one of the top scorers at Benfica during his time there, the concurrence of other great forwards, like Eusébio, Jordão and Nené, explain why he had only 16 caps for the Portugal National Team, 2 while at Académica de Coimbra, 13 at Benfica and 1 while playing for Belenenses, scoring only one goal during his international career. His debut, on 27 March 1967, was a 1-1 draw with Italy, in a friendly match, in Rome. His last game, was on 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. He underwent knee surgery five times during his career[citation needed], this is attributed as one of the causes of his declining abilities at the end of the career.[citation needed] Though his career would ultimately come to an end as the result of a training ground accident at the Estádio Nacional, where he broke his leg.[citation needed]

Manager

After his player career, he went to Leipzig in then East Germany, to study football and training methodology. He Vitória S.C.[1], Belenenses[2], Portimonense SC and signed at F.C. Porto for the 1984/85 season, where he won three National Champion titles and two Cups of Portugal. His greatest success was to win the European Champions Cup with F.C. Porto over favourites Bayern Munich 2-1. Artur Jorge is known since then as "King Artur" (Rei Artur). He moved to Racing Paris the next season[3], and returned to FC Porto in 1989/90. He moved to Paris Saint-Germain, in 1991/92, where he won the National Championship, in 1993/94.[4] He moved to Benfica, in 1994/95, finishing 3rd with his team, and was replaced at the beginning of the following season. Since then he has been coach of several other clubs: Académica de Coimbra O.A.F., 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 seasons, Switzerland national football team[5], and since 2004, Cameroon national football team.[6][7] He failed to lead his team to the 2006 World Cup. He managed Saudi club Al-Nasr for only two cup matches and was sacked following a 4-1 defeat by lowly club side Al-Faisaly. Artur Jorge managed French second division team Créteil in 2006-2007.[8]

Honours

See also

References

Preceded by
Emerich Jenei
European Cup Winning Coach
1986-87
Succeeded by
Guus Hiddink

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