Vítor Silva
![]() Vítor Silva in 1928 | |||
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Vítor Marcolino da Silva | ||
Date of birth | (1909-02-20)20 February 1909 | ||
Place of birth | Lisbon, Portugal | ||
Date of death | 21 July 1982(1982-07-21) (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]
Club career
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]
International career
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]
International goals
[7]
No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1. | 15 April 1928 | Campo do Ameal, Porto, Portugal | ![]() | 3–1 | 4–1 | Friendly |
2. | 27 May 1928 | Olympic Stadium, Amsterdam, Netherlands | ![]() | 1–2 | 4–2 | Football at the 1928 Summer Olympics |
3. | 29 May 1928 | Old Stadion, Amsterdam, Netherlands | ![]() | 1–0 | 2–1 | |
4. | 4 June 1928 | Olympic Stadium, Amsterdam, Netherlands | ![]() | 1–2 | 1–2 | |
5. | 1 December 1929 | San Siro, Milan, Italy | ![]() | 1–1 | 1–6 | Friendly |
6. | 31 May 1931 | Estádio do Lumiar, Lisbon, Portugal | ![]() | 2–2 | 3–2 | |
7. | 18 March 1934 | Estádio do Lumiar, Lisbon, Portugal | ![]() | 1–0 | 1–2 | 1934 World Cup Qualification |
8. | 27 February 1936 | Estádio do Lumiar, Lisbon, Portugal | ![]() | 1–3 | 1–3 | Friendly |
Honours
Benfica[8]
- Primeira Divisão: 1935–36
- Campeonato de Portugal: 1929–30, 1930–31, 1934–35
- Campeonato de Lisboa: 1932–33
References
General
- Tovar, Rui Miguel (2012). Almanaque do Benfica. Portugal: Lua de Papel. ISBN 978-989-23-2087-8.
Specific
- ^ "Avançados". slbenfica.pt (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
- ^ a b c d e f João Malheiro (July 2006). Memorial Benfica 100 Glórias [Benfica Memorial, 100 glories] (in Portuguese) (Third ed.). QuidNovi. pp. 150–151. ISBN 978-972-8998-26-4.
- ^ Tovar 2012, p. 759.
- ^ Tovar 2012, p. 116–127.
- ^ "Vítor Silva". Olympedia. Retrieved 13 September 2021.
- ^ "Vitor Silva". eu-football.info. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
- ^ "Portugal national football team results".
- ^ "Bicampeões para a história" [Back-to-back champions for the ages]. Visão (in Portuguese). Portugal: Impresa Publishing. May 2015. p. 39. ISSN 0872-3540.
External links
- Vítor Silva – FIFA competition record (archived)
- Vítor Silva at ForaDeJogo (archived)