Manuel Duarte

Manuel Duarte
Personal information
Full name	Manuel Almeida Duarte
Date of birth	29 May 1945 (age 79)
Place of birth	Celorico de Basto, Portugal
Position(s)	Striker
Senior career*
Years	Team
1962–1964	Académica
1964–1966	Leixões
1966–1970	Sporting CP
1970–1971	Porto
1971–1972	Varzim
1972–1978	Fafe
1978–1979	Cabeceirense
1979–1980	Limianos
1981–1982	Felgueiras
1982–1984	Mondinense
International career
1966	Portugal
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Manuel Almeida Duarte (born 29 May 1945) is a retired Portuguese footballer who played as a striker.

Club career

Duarte was born in Celorico de Basto, Braga District. During a 16–year professional career he played for Académica de Coimbra, Leixões SC, Sporting Clube de Portugal, FC Porto, Varzim S.C. and AD Fafe, amassing Primeira Liga totals of 79 games and 32 goals over the course of nine seasons and competing in the second division 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.^[1]

Duarte earned two caps for Portugal in 1966, being an unused squad member at that year's FIFA World Cup.^[2]

^ "Época 1966/67: Primeira Divisão" [1966/67 season: First Division] (in Portuguese). Arquivos da Bola. 17 October 2007. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
^ "A lenda dos Magriços começou há 50 anos" [The legend of the Magriços started 50 years ago]. Expresso (in Portuguese). 13 July 2016. Retrieved 25 May 2017.