Mário Wilson
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Mário Wilson | ||
| Date of birth | 17 October 1929 | ||
| Place of birth | Lourenço Marques, Mozambique | ||
| Date of death | 3 October 2016 (aged 86) | ||
| Playing position | Centre back | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1948–1949 | Desportivo Lourenço Marques | ||
| 1949–1951 | Sporting CP | 36 | (0) |
| 1951–1963 | Académica | 250 | (15) |
| Total | 286 | (15) | |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1964–1968 | Académica | ||
| 1968–1970 | Belenenses | ||
| 1971 | Tirsense | ||
| 1971–1975 | Vitória Guimarães | ||
| 1975–1976 | Benfica | ||
| 1976–1977 | Boavista | ||
| 1977–1979 | Vitória Guimarães | ||
| 1978–1980 | Portugal | ||
| 1979–1980 | Benfica | ||
| 1980–1983 | Académica | ||
| 1983–1984 | Estoril | ||
| 1984 | Boavista | ||
| 1984–1986 | Estoril | ||
| 1986–1987 | Cova da Piedade | ||
| 1987–1988 | Louletano | ||
| 1988–1989 | Torreense | ||
| 1989 | Louletano | ||
| 1989–1990 | Olhanense | ||
| 1990–1991 | Águeda | ||
| 1993–1995 | FAR Rabat | ||
| 1995–1996 | Benfica | ||
| 1997 | Benfica (caretaker) | ||
| 1997–1999 | Alverca | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Mário Wilson, ComM (17 October 1929 – 3 October 2016) was a Portuguese football central defender and manager.
He played in 286 Portuguese first division games over the course of 14 seasons, mainly in representation of Académica.
Subsequently he embarked in a lengthy managerial career in the country, which lasted more than 30 years and also included two spells at his main club, and several more at Benfica.
Born in Lourenço Marques, Portuguese Mozambique, Wilson joined Sporting Clube de Portugal in 1949 aged 19, arriving from local Grupo Desportivo de Lourenço Marques. He started his career as a forward.
After two seasons with the Lions, Wilson signed for fellow top division side Académica de Coimbra, where he would remain for the rest of his career, retiring in June 1963 at nearly 34 years of age. His best individual season was 1951–52 when he scored five goals in 24 games for the Students, who finished in seventh position (out of 14 teams).
One year after retiring, Wilson began working as a coach, spending his first five years with Académica – which he led to a best-ever second position in 1966–67, as well as the season's Portuguese Cup final – then working three seasons with C.F. Os Belenenses. He first managed S.L. Benfica in the 1975–76 campaign, winning the national championship; during his early spell with the latter he coined the phrase "Anyone who coaches Benfica risks being champion", having been dubbed whilst still a player O Velho Capitão (Portuguese for "The Old Captain").
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