Francisco Antero Perdigão Calado Ribeiro (22 February 1927 – 5 February 2005), known as Francisco Calado, is a former Portuguese
footballer
A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...
who played as a
half-back.
Calado represented Benfica for ten seasons, winning four major titles. After football, he played for their
rugby section until 1969.
Career
Calado started his career in Clube Desportivo Lisboa e Águias, a small club in Lisbon. In 1948, the 21-year old fulfilled a life dream of playing for
Benfica when
Ted Smith selected him to start against
Olhanense
Sporting Clube Olhanense (), commonly known as Olhanense, is a Portuguese sports club from Olhão, Algarve.
Its football team was founded on 27 April 1912 and currently plays in the Algarve Football Association First Division, the fifth tier of ...
on 29 December.
With serious competition from
Francisco Ferreira,
Félix Antunes,
Francisco Moreira
Francisco Moreira (29 April 1915 – 2 November 1991) was a Portuguese footballer who played as a midfielder.
Career
Moreira began playing club football with F.C. Barreirense. Late in his career, he joined S.L. Benfica where he would win the le ...
and others, his playing time was so restricted that he did not play competitively at all in
1949–50,
1951–52 and
1952–53.
His best seasons were in
1954–55 and
1955–56, when he assumed a starting role alongside
Alfredo Abrantes and
Fernando Caiado
Fernando Augusto do Amaral Caiado (2 March 1925 – 12 November 2006) was a Portuguese footballer and manager, who played for Boavista and Benfica as midfielder.
Playing honours
Benfica
* Primeira Divisão: 1954–55, 1956–57
* Taça de P ...
, playing 27 games in the first year and 15 in the second. He played his last game for Benfica on the
1958 Taça de Portugal Final
Events
January
* January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being.
* January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed.
* January 4
** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the thir ...
lost to
Porto
Porto (), also known in English language, English as Oporto, is the List of cities in Portugal, second largest city in Portugal, after Lisbon. It is the capital of the Porto District and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto c ...
. His commitment to Benfica was so great that he once said: "I will not leave Benfica. I will stay here without pay, and they can put me in the reserve team if they wish. If I have to, I will pay for my boots, but I only wear Benfica's shirt". After the end of his football career, he continued representing Benfica, playing 11 more years in the
rugby section.
He died on 5 February 2005, from a
cerebral embolism
An embolism is the lodging of an embolus, a blockage-causing piece of material, inside a blood vessel. The embolus may be a blood clot (thrombus), a fat globule (fat embolism), a bubble of air or other gas (gas embolism), amniotic fluid (amniot ...
.
Honours
Benfica
*
Primeira Liga
The Primeira Liga (), also known as Liga Portugal Betclic for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Portugal and the highest level of the Portuguese football league system. Organised and supervised by the Liga ...
:
1954–55,
1956–57,
1959–60
*
Taça de Portugal
The Taça de Portugal (; ) is an annual association football competition and the premier knockout tournament in Portuguese football. For sponsorship reasons, it has been known as Taça de Portugal Generali Tranquilidade since the 2024–25 seaso ...
:
1954–55,
1956–57
References
General
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Specific
External links
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1927 births
2005 deaths
Deaths from embolism
Footballers from Lisbon
Portuguese men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Primeira Liga players
S.L. Benfica footballers
20th-century Portuguese sportsmen