Artur Jorge (footballer)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Artur Jorge Braga de Melo Teixeira | ||
| Date of birth | 13 February 1946 | ||
| Place of birth | Porto, Portugal | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1964–1965 | Porto | 4 | (1) |
| 1965–1969 | Académica | 96 | (72) |
| 1969–1975 | Benfica | 130 | (105) |
| 1975–1978 | Belenenses | 51 | (14) |
| 1977 | → Rochester Lancers (loan) | 7 | (2) |
| National team | |||
| 1967–1977 | Portugal | 16 | (1) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1980–1981 | Vitória de Guimarães | ||
| 1981 | Belenenses | ||
| 1981–1983 | Portimonense | ||
| 1984–1987 | Porto | ||
| 1987–1989 | Racing Paris | ||
| 1989–1991 | Porto | ||
| 1991–1994 | Paris Saint-Germain | ||
| 1994–1995 | Benfica | ||
| 1995–1996 | Switzerland | ||
| 1996–1997 | Portugal | ||
| 1997–1998 | Tenerife | ||
| 1998 | Vitesse Arnhem | ||
| 1998–1999 | Paris Saint-Germain | ||
| 2000–2001 | Al-Nassr | ||
| 2001–2002 | Al-Hilal | ||
| 2002–2003 | Académica | ||
| 2003–2004 | CSKA Moscow | ||
| 2004–2006 | Cameroon | ||
| 2006 | Al-Nassr | ||
| 2006–2007 | Créteil | ||
| 2014–2015 | MC Alger | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Artur Jorge Braga Melo Teixeira (born 13 February 1946), commonly known as Artur Jorge, is a Portuguese football manager and former player, who played as a forward.
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 Literature of the University of Coimbra, graduating in Germanic Philology from the University of Lisbon in 1975, after his transfer to S.L. Benfica. During his career as a player, he won four Portuguese Football Championships, two Portuguese Football Cups, and two silver boots, the prize for best goalscorer. He underwent knee surgery five times during his career, this is attributed as one of the causes of his declining abilities at the end of the career. 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.
Despite having been one of the top scorers at Benfica during his time there, the concurrence of other great forwards, such as Eusébio, Rui Jordão, and Nené, explain why he had only 16 caps for Portugal, earning two caps at Académica de Coimbra, 13 at Benfica, and one 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, which resulted in a 1–0 win over Switzerland, in another friendly match, this time in Funchal, Madeira. He was a member of the squad that reached the Brazil Independence Cup final, in 1972, the highest point of his international career.
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