Manuel Almeida Duarte (29 May 1945 – 2 September 2022) was a Portuguese

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who played as a striker.

Club career

Duarte was born in

Celorico de Basto Celorico de Basto () is a municipality in Braga District in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 20,098, in an area of 181.07 km2. The town of Celorico de Basto has around 2500 inhabitants. The municipality is located bordering the municipali ...

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. In a 16–year professional career he played for

Académica de Coimbra The Associação Académica de Coimbra (AAC) is the students' union of the University of Coimbra (UC). Founded in Coimbra on November 3, 1887, it is the oldest students' union in Portugal. It is also the biggest Portuguese students' union belongin ...

Leixões SC The Port of Leixões (, ) is one of Portugal's major seaports, located 4 km north of the mouth of the Douro River, in Matosinhos municipality, near the city of Porto. Leixões Sport Club, commonly known simply as ''Leixões'', is Matosinho ...

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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Varzim S.C. Varzim Sport Club () is a Portuguese football club based in Póvoa de Varzim. The club was founded on 25 December 1915, and has played at the Estádio do Varzim Sport Club since its foundation. The club plays in Liga 3, following relegation in ...

and

AD Fafe Associação Desportiva de Fafe (abbreviated as AD Fafe) is a Portuguese professional football club based in Fafe, in the district of Braga. Background AD Fafe currently plays in the Campeonato Nacional de Seniores – Série A which is ...

, amassing

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totals of 79 matches and 32 goals over nine seasons and competing in the Segunda Liga with the last two clubs. He retired at the age of 39, after five years in amateur football with four sides. Duarte scored a career-best 11 goals (in only 19 games) in the 1966–67 campaign, helping Sporting to the fourth position.

International career

Duarte earned two

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for

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in 1966, being an unused squad member at that year's

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Death

Duarte died in

Fafe Fafe (), officially the City of Fafe (), is a city and municipality in the northern Portuguese district of Braga. The population in 2021 was 48,502, in an area of approximately . The city itself had a population of 15,703 in 2011. The present ma ...

on 2 September 2022, aged 77.

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