Francisco Delfim Dias Faria (9 October 1949 – 10 June 2004), commonly known as Chico Faria, was a Portuguese footballer who played as a forward.

Club career

Born in

Matosinhos Matosinhos, Porto, Portugal () is a city and a municipality in the northern Porto district of Portugal, bordered in the south by the city of Porto (8 km from the city centre). The population in 2011 was 175,478, and covered an area of approx ...

, Faria spent his first 15 seasons as a professional in the

Primeira Liga The Primeira Liga (; English: Premier League, also written as Liga Portugal 1), also known as Liga Portugal Bwin for sponsorship reasons, is the top level of the Portuguese football league system. Organised and supervised by the Liga Portugal, ...

, making his debut in the competition with hometown club Leixões S.C. at only 17. In the 1968 summer he signed for

Sporting Clube de Portugal Sporting Clube de Portugal, founded Sporting Club de Portugal (), otherwise referred to as Sporting CP, often known abroad as Sporting Lisbon , is a Portuguese professional sports club based in Lisbon. It is best known for the professional fo ...

, where he went on to win two national championships and three Taça de Portugal trophies. Faria subsequently represented S.C. Braga, equalling a career-best ten goals in the 1979–80 campaign to help his team to the ninth position. From 1982 to 1985 he competed in the Segunda Liga, retiring the following year after a spell in amateur football.

International career

Faria gained four caps for Portugal, in five years. His first arrived on 10 May 1972 in a 1–0 away win against Cyprus for the

1974 FIFA World Cup The 1974 FIFA World Cup was the tenth FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial football tournament for men's senior national teams, and was played in West Germany (and West Berlin) between 13 June and 7 July. The tournament marked the first time that the ...

qualifiers, and he scored the only goal in the match played in

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Death

Faria died on 10 June 2004 at the age of 54, victim of prolonged pulmonary disease.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Faria, Chico 1949 births 2004 deaths Sportspeople from Matosinhos Portuguese footballers Association football forwards Primeira Liga players Liga Portugal 2 players Leixões S.C. players Sporting CP footballers S.C. Braga players F.C. Penafiel players C.S. Marítimo players Portugal youth international footballers Portugal under-21 international footballers Portugal international footballers