Mascarenhas (footballer)

Mascarenhas
Personal information
Full name Domingos António da Silva
Date of birth (1937-04-28)28 April 1937
Place of birth Vila Salazar, Angola
Date of death 25 August 2015(2015-08-25) (aged 78)
Place of death Lisbon, Portugal
Playing position Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1958–1959 Benfica 2 (1)
1959–1962 Barreirense 25 (10)
1962–1965 Sporting CP 26 (12)
1965–1966 Barreirense 17 (7)
1966–1967 CUF 8 (1)
1967–1968 Peniche
1969–1971 Riopele
1972–1975 Paços Ferreira

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Domingos António da Silva (28 April 1937 – 25 August 2015), known as Mascarenhas, was an Angolan footballer who played as a forward.

Football career

Mascarenhas was born in Vila Salazar, Portuguese Angola. After one season with S.L. Benfica and three with F.C. Barreirense, he joined Sporting Clube de Portugal in 1962; during his three-year spell with the Lisbon club, he scored 80 goals in 107 games all appearances comprised, even friendlies.[1]

In the 1963 Portuguese Cup final, Mascarenhas scored once in a 4–0 win against Vitória de Guimarães. In the following campaign, in Sporting's victorious campaign in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, he netted six times in a 16–1 home success against APOEL FC (European competition record), adding another in the final against MTK Budapest FC, the 3–3 leading to a replay in Antwerp which ended with a 1–0 win for the Lions.[2][3]

Death

Mascarenhas died on 25 August 2015 at the São José Hospital in Lisbon, after a long illness. He was 78 years old.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Mascarenhas" (in Portuguese). Wiki Sporting. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  2. ↑ "1963/64: Sporting at the second attempt". UEFA.com. 17 August 2001. Archived from the original on 19 May 2008. Retrieved 9 October 2012.
  3. ↑ Biography; Sporting's official website (Portuguese)
  4. ↑ "Morreu Mascarenhas" [Mascarenhas has died] (in Portuguese). A Bola. 25 August 2015. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
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