Artur Jorge (footballer, born 1946)

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Artur Jorge

Artur Jorge (second from the left) in 1972
Personal information
Full name	Artur Jorge Braga de Melo Teixeira
Date of birth	(1946-02-13) 13 February 1946
Place of birth	Porto, Portugal
Position(s)	Striker
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1964–1965	Porto	4	(1)
1965–1969	Académica	96	(72)
1969–1975	Benfica	130	(105)
1975–1978	Belenenses	51	(14)
1977	→ Rochester Lancers (loan)	7	(2)
International career
1967–1977	Portugal	16	(1)
Managerial career
1980–1981	Vitória de Guimarães
1981	Belenenses
1981–1983	Portimonense
1984–1987	Porto
1987–1989	Racing Paris
1989–1991	Porto
1991–1994	Paris Saint-Germain
1994–1995	Benfica
1995–1996	Switzerland
1996–1997	Portugal
1997–1998	Tenerife
1998	Vitesse
1998–1999	Paris Saint-Germain
2000–2001	Al-Nassr
2001–2002	Al-Hilal
2002–2003	Académica
2003–2004	CSKA Moscow
2004–2006	Cameroon
2006	Al-Nassr
2006–2007	Créteil
2014–2015	MC Alger
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Artur Jorge Braga Melo Teixeira (born 13 February 1946), commonly known as Artur Jorge, is a Portuguese football manager and former player, who played as a forward.

Club career

As a junior player, he started at the junior team of FC Porto. As professional player, he played for Académica de Coimbra and Benfica, before ending his career at Belenenses in the 1977–78 season, due to a serious injury suffered at a training session in the Estádio Nacional where he broke a leg. During his player days in Coimbra, Jorge was a student at the Faculty of Literature of the University of Coimbra, graduating in Germanic Philology from the University of Lisbon in 1975 during his time at Benfica. As a player, he won four Portuguese league championships, two Taça de Portugal cups and two silver boots for being the best goalscorer. He underwent knee surgery five times during his career, this is attributed as one of the causes of his declining abilities at the end of the career.

International career

Despite having been one of the top scorers at Benfica, the concurrence of other great forwards such as Eusébio, Rui Jordão and Nené largely limited Artur Jorge to only 16 caps for Portugal, earning two caps while at Académica, 13 at Benfica and one while playing for Belenenses, scoring only one goal during his international career. His debut, on 27 March 1967, was a 1–1 draw with Italy, in a friendly match, in Rome. His last match was on 30 March 1977, a 1–0 win over Switzerland in another friendly match, in Funchal, Madeira. He was a member of the squad that reached the Brazil Independence Cup final, in 1972, the highest point of his international career.

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition	Ref.
1	29 March 1972	Estádio da Luz (1954), Lisbon, Portugal	Cyprus	3–0	4–0	1974 World Cup qualification Managerial career After his player career, Artur Jorge went to Leipzig, East Germany, to study football and training methodology. He started his managerial career working with Vitória de Guimarães, moving on to Belenenses, Portimonense and then signing with Porto for the 1984–85 season, where he won three national champion titles and two Taça de Portugal titles. His greatest success was to win the European Cup with Porto over favourites Bayern Munich 2–1. Jorge is known since then as "Rei Artur" ("King Arthur"). He moved to Racing Paris the next season, and returned to Porto in 1989–90. He then moved to Paris Saint-Germain in 1991–92, where he won the national championship in 1993–94. Artur Jorge moved to Benfica in 1994–95, finishing third with his team, and was replaced at the beginning of the following season. Since then, he has been coach of several other clubs – Académica de Coimbra, Vitesse Arnhem, Tenerife, CSKA Moscow and the Portugal national team, first still as Porto coach for 1989–90 and 1990–91, later for the 1996–97 seasons, Switzerland, and since 2004, Cameroon. He failed to lead his team to the 2006 FIFA World Cup. He managed Saudi club Al-Nasr for only two cup matches and was sacked following a 4–1 defeat by lowly club Al-Faisaly. He then managed French second division team Créteil in 2006–07. On 27 November 2014, Artur Jorge joined Algerian club MC Alger, ending a seven-year period without coaching. That appointment ended on 8 October 2015. Honours Player Club Benfica Primeira Liga: 1970–71, 1971–72, 1972–73, 1974–75 Taça de Portugal: 1969–70, 1971–72 Individual Bola de Prata: 1970–71, 1971–72 Manager Porto Primeira Liga: 1984–85, 1985–86, 1989–90 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira: 1984, 1986, 1990 Taça de Portugal: 1990–91 European Cup: 1987 Paris Saint-Germain Division 1: 1994 Coupe de France: 1993 Al-Hilal Saudi Premier League: 2002 Asian Cup Winners' Cup: 2002 CSKA Moscow Russian Super Cup: 2004 Individual European Coach of the Season: 1986–87 References External links Artur Jorge at ForaDeJogo (archived) Artur Jorge at National-Football-Teams.com