Fernando Gomes (footballer)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Fernando Mendes Soares Gomes | ||
| Date of birth | 22 November 1956 | ||
| Place of birth | Porto, Portugal | ||
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1972–1974 | Porto | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1974–1980 | Porto | 158 | (125) |
| 1980–1982 | Sporting Gijón | 27 | (12) |
| 1982–1989 | Porto | 184 | (163) |
| 1989–1991 | Sporting CP | 63 | (31) |
| Total | 432 | (331) | |
| National team | |||
| 1975–1988 | Portugal | 48 | (11) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Fernando Mendes Soares Gomes (born 22 November 1956) is a retired Portuguese professional footballer who played as a striker.
He achieved great success with FC Porto during the late 1970s and 1980s. While technically only a good player, his talent resided on a fantastic positional sense, which made him very dangerous inside the six-yard box.
The recipient of nearly 50 caps for Portugal, Gomes represented the nation in one World Cup and one European Championship.
Showing great ability since entering FC Porto's youth squads, Porto-born Gomes scored twice in his first-team debut against G.D. CUF, in 1974. Except for a brief two-year stint with Sporting de Gijón, when most key players left the club in support of director of football – later president – Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa, he was on all important moments of the rebirth of the club: the 20-year league drought end in the 1978–79 season, the first UEFA Cup Winners' Cup final against Juventus F.C. in 1984 and, while he missed the 1987 final of the European Cup against FC Bayern Munich after breaking a leg days before, he scored five goals in the side's victorious campaign, including the important second against FC Dynamo Kyiv in the semifinals; he recovered still in time to play in the European Supercup against AFC Ajax and the Intercontinental Cup against C.A. Peñarol, on both occasions captaining the winner and scoring the opening goal in the latter game for a 2–1 win.
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