Tamagnini Nené
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Tamagnini Manuel Gomes Baptista, Nené (nɛˈnɛ; born 20 November 1949), is a retired Portuguese
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

 footballer.

A striker, he played his entire career with Sport Lisboa e Benfica, appearing in nearly 600 official games for the club.

Gaining nearly 70 caps
Cap (sport)
In sports, a cap is a metaphorical term for a player's appearance on a select team, such as a national team. The term dates from the practice in the United Kingdom of awarding a cap to every player in an international match of association football...

 for Portugal
Portugal national football team
The Portugal national football team represents Portugal in association football and is controlled by the Portuguese Football Federation, the governing body for football in Portugal. Portugal's home ground is Estádio Nacional in Oeiras, and their head coach is Paulo Bento...

 and scoring more than 20 goals, Nené represented the nation at Euro 1984.

Club career

Born in Leça da Palmeira
Leça da Palmeira
Leça da Palmeira is a Portuguese parish in the municipality of Matosinhos and part of the city with the same name. It has 5.97 km² and had 17.215 inhabitants in the 2001 census....

, Nené made his professional debuts with S.L. Benfica in 1968, and remained a key fixture with the side until his retirement almost twenty years later, at nearly 37. In 1972–73, he was a star player for a side which became national champion without a single defeat (28 matches won - 23 consecutively - out of 30). The team scored 101 goals, breaking 100 for only the second time in its history.

Nené was the Portuguese Footballer of the Year
Portuguese Footballer of the Year
The CNID Footballer of the Year was an annual award given to the player who was adjudged to have been the best best of the year in Primeira Liga. Between 1970 and 2000 this award was given to a Portuguese footballer playing in a foreign country or any player in Portuguese first League...

 in 1971 and also runner-up in 1972, which was achieved whilst competing with teammate Eusébio
Eusébio
Eusébio da Silva Ferreira, GCIH, GCM , commonly known simply as Eusébio, is a retired Mozambican-born Portuguese football forward. He is considered one of the best footballers of all-time by the IFFHS, experts and fans...

. He ranked second in Benfica's scoring lists in European competitions
UEFA
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 with 28 goals in 75 appearances, and played in the 1982–83 UEFA Cup finals, in a loss to R.S.C. Anderlecht
R.S.C. Anderlecht
Royal Sporting Club Anderlecht, usually known as Anderlecht or RSCA , is a Belgian professional football club based in Anderlecht in the Brussels Capital Region. Anderlecht plays in the Belgian Pro League and is the most successful Belgian football team in European competitions as well as in the...

.

As a player, Nené became one of the living symbols of Benfica, winning 11 national championships. After ending his career, with overall totals of 577 matches and 361 goals, he became a youth coach with the Reds.

International career

Nené finished tenth in the all-time appearance records for Portugal
Portugal national football team
The Portugal national football team represents Portugal in association football and is controlled by the Portuguese Football Federation, the governing body for football in Portugal. Portugal's home ground is Estádio Nacional in Oeiras, and their head coach is Paulo Bento...

 with 66 caps, ranking 7th in the goalscoring charts at 22, with an excellent goals-to-games ratio
Ratio
In mathematics, a ratio is a relationship between two numbers of the same kind , usually expressed as "a to b" or a:b, sometimes expressed arithmetically as a dimensionless quotient of the two which explicitly indicates how many times the first number contains the second In mathematics, a ratio is...

 (similar to former Benfica men Eusébio and Nuno Gomes
Nuno Gomes
Nuno Miguel Soares Pereira Ribeiro , commonly known as Nuno Gomes, is a Portuguese footballer who plays for S.C. Braga as a striker.He was given the nickname Gomes during childhood after F.C...

). His appearance record stood until 1994, broken by F.C. Porto's João Domingos Pinto.

He made his international debut on April 21, 1971, in a UEFA Euro 1972 qualifier against Scotland
Scotland national football team
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 (2–0), and would score the winning goal against Romania
Romania national football team
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 (1–0) on June 20, 1984, becoming the oldest player to score in the European championship
UEFA European Football Championship
The UEFA European Football Championship is the main football competition of the men's national football teams governed by UEFA . Held every four years since 1960, in the even-numbered year between World Cup tournaments, it was originally called the UEFA European Nations Cup, changing to the current...

 finals at 34 years, 213 days. His goal led Portugal to the semi-finals versus hosts France
France national football team
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, where he played as a substitute, but could not avert the defeat (2–3) in extra time
Overtime (sports)
Overtime or extra time is an additional period of play specified under the rules of a sport to bring a game to a decision and avoid declaring the match a tie or draw. In most sports, this extra period is only played if the game is required to have a clear winner, as in single-elimination...

.

Nené's record was only broken 24 years later, when Ivica Vastić
Ivica Vastic
Ivica Vastić is a retired Croatian-born Austrian football midfielder, formerly a striker, who last played for LASK Linz and the Austria national football team and works now as Head Coach of FK Austria Wien Amateure.- Club career :Born in Split, Vastić started to play for local clubs Jugovinil and...

 scored for Austria
Austria national football team
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 at Euro 2008, against Poland
Poland national football team
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Team

  • Portuguese League: 1967–68, 1968–69, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1972–73, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1980–81, 1982–83, 1983–84
  • Portuguese Cup
    Taça de Portugal
    The Taça de Portugal is the main Portuguese national football knock-out competition. The tournament has been officially known as the Taça de Portugal Millennium since 2008, due to its sponsorship by Portuguese private bank Millennium BCP. It has occurred on a yearly basis since 1938 and is...

    : 1968–69, 1969–70, 1971–72, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1982–83, 1984–85, 1985–86
  • Portuguese Supercup: 1980, 1985
  • UEFA Cup
    UEFA Cup
    The UEFA Europa League is an annual association football cup competition organised by UEFA since 1971 for eligible European football clubs. It is the second most prestigious European club football contest after the UEFA Champions League...

    : Runner-up 1982–83

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