Francisco Delfim Dias Faria (9 October 1949 – 10 June 2004), commonly known as Chico Faria, was a Portuguese footballer who played as a forward.

Club career

Born in

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, Faria spent his first 15 seasons as a professional in the

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, making his debut in the competition with hometown club Leixões S.C. at only 17. In the 1968 summer he signed for

Sporting Clube de Portugal Sporting Clube de Portugal (), otherwise referred to as Sporting CP or simply Sporting (particularly within Portugal), or as Sporting Lisbon in other countries,

, where he went on to win two national championships and three

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trophies. Faria subsequently represented S.C. Braga, equalling a career-best ten goals in the 1979–80 campaign to help his team to the ninth position. From 1982 to 1985 he competed in the Segunda Liga, retiring the following year after a spell in amateur football.

International career

Faria gained four caps for

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, in five years. His first arrived on 10 May 1972 in a 1–0 away win against

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for the

1974 FIFA World Cup The 1974 FIFA World Cup was the 10th FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial Association football, football tournament for men's senior national teams, and was played in West Germany (and West Berlin) between 13 June and 7 July. The tournament marked the ...

qualifiers, and he scored the only goal in the match played in

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Death

Faria died on 10 June 2004 at the age of 54, victim of prolonged pulmonary disease.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Faria, Chico 1949 births 2004 deaths Footballers from Matosinhos Portuguese men's footballers Men's association football forwards Primeira Liga players Liga Portugal 2 players Leixões S.C. players Sporting CP footballers S.C. Braga players F.C. Penafiel players C.S. Marítimo players Portugal men's youth international footballers Portugal men's under-21 international footballers Portugal men's international footballers 20th-century Portuguese sportsmen