Mário Moinhos

Mário Moinhos

Personal information
Full name	Mário Jorge Moinhos Matos
Date of birth	(1949-05-13) 13 May 1949
Place of birth	Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Youth career
	Vilanovense
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1965–1969	Vilanovense
1969–1973	Boavista	100	(28)
1973–1977	Benfica	74	(21)
1977–1980	Boavista	83	(15)
1980–1984	Espinho	94	(13)
Total		351	(77)
International career
1975–1976	Portugal	7	(1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Mário Jorge Moinhos Matos (born 13 May 1949), known as Moinhos, is a retired Portuguese footballer who played as a forward.

Club career

Born in Vila Nova de Gaia, Porto District, Moinhos started playing professionally in 1969, with Porto's Boavista FC. After two solid last seasons, especially 1972–73 where he scored 15 goals in 29 games to help his team rank seventh, he moved to Primeira Liga giants S.L. Benfica.

During his four-year spell with the Lisbon team, Moinhos appeared intermittenly but did contribute with 57 matches and 20 goals from 1974 to 1976, eventually helping Benfica to three consecutive national championships. In 1978, aged 29, he returned to Boavista, where he remained three further seasons.

Moinhos finished his career after four years with S.C. Espinho, retiring after the end of the 1983–84 campaign with his team being relegated. In the following decades he would again work with Boavista, in its coaching departments, while also being undermined by health problems and poor finances.

International career

Whilst at Benfica, Moinhos gained seven caps for Portugal, scoring once. He made his debut on 24 April 1975 in a 2–0 friendly win in Paris with France, and appeared for the last time on 16 October 1976 in a 0–2 home loss against Poland, at the beginning of the 1978 FIFA World Cup qualifiers.

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition	Ref.
1	8 June 1975	Tsirion Stadium, Limassol, Cyprus	Cyprus	0–2	0–2	1978 World Cup qualification Honours Benfica Primeira Liga: 1974–75, 1975–76, 1976–77 Taça de Portugal: Runner-up 1973–74, 1974–75 External links External links Template:Zerozero Mário Moinhos at ForaDeJogo (archived) Mário Moinhos at National-Football-Teams.com Portugal stats at Eu-Football