Mário João was a Portuguese footballer

Football (soccer)

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He played as a right-defender for SL Benfica

SL Benfica

Sport Lisboa e Benfica , commonly known as simply Benfica or occasionally as Benfica Lisbon, is a Portuguese multi-sports club based in Lisbon. Although they successfully compete in a number of different sports, Benfica is mostly known for its association football team...

, from 1957/58 to 1961/62, and CUF, from Barreiro, from 1962/63 to 1967/68. He won two titles of National Champion and two Cups of Portugal with Benfica.

He was part of their UEFA Champions League

UEFA Champions League

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 victories in the European Cup 1960-61 and the European Cup 1961-62.

He had three caps for Portugal National Team, two of them as a Benfica player, from 2 May 1960, in a 1–5 defeat with Yugoslavia, for European Championship quarter-finals, to the 2–1 win over Belgium, in 3 May 1964, in a friendly match.
Mário João was never a full professional and left football, because he earned more money as a worker for CUF then as a football player.

He would be the coach of CUF for the 1975/76 season.

External links

• Mário João Statistics