Luís Maria Cabral Norton de Matos (born 14 December 1953) is a Portuguese former

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who played as a forward, and a

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. He amassed

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totals of 211 matches and 36 goals over nine seasons, representing in the competition Académica,

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, Atlético,

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and Portimonense. In 1989 he became a manager, going on to work with several clubs.

Playing career

Born in

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, Norton de Matos began playing professionally with local

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, but only appeared for the reserves in official games, also being loaned to Académica de Coimbra where he made his

debuts. Released by Benfica in the summer of 1974, he spent three of the following four years also in the top flight, with

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and

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, scoring a combined ten league goals. In 1978, Norton de Matos moved abroad and joined

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in Belgium, helping the team to the second position in the

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in his second season and adding the 1981

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. Aged nearly 28, he returned home and signed with Portimonense SC, scoring a career-best 12 goals in the 1981–82 campaign as the

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club finished in sixth position. Norton de Matos retired in June 1987 at the age of 33 years and six months, after spells with Belenenses (two seasons) and C.F. Estrela da Amadora ( second level). He won five

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for

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, all in 1982.

Coaching career

Norton de Matos started coaching in 1989, his first job being with former club Atlético in the second division. He managed mainly in that and the third levels, his only top flight experience arriving in 2005–06 with Vitória de Setúbal: on 17 December 2005, in spite of the team's excellent overall performances (nine wins and only four losses in 15 games, and just four goals conceded, best in European football that season), he resigned due to the club's dreadful economic situation; in the late 90s, he also worked as

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

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. In 2008, Norton de Matos moved to

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, being appointed manager at

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and also directing its football academy. Two years later, he was named coach of the Guinea-Bissau national team. In the following years, Norton de Matos led S.L. Benfica B to the seventh place in the second tier in the 2012–13 season, being relegated from the top division with

C.F. União Clube de Futebol União, commonly known as União da Madeira, was a Portuguese association football, football club based in Funchal, Madeira, notable for its six season in the Portuguese top-flight Primeira Liga, between the 1989–90 Primeira D ...

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

. On 1 March 2017, he was appointed by the

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to its under-17 side. He also managed

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in the

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until 2019. Norton de Matos signed with French club

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on 14 July 2020, as youth system coordinator.

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