José António Conceiçāo Neto (5 October 1935 – 6 July 1999) was a Portuguese

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who played as a

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for Benfica. He was part of their

European Cup The UEFA Champions League (abbreviated as UCL, or sometimes, UEFA CL) is an annual club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs, deciding the competit ...

victories in the 1960–61 and 1961–62 campaigns.

Honours

Benfica *

Primeira Divisão 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, ...

: 1959–60, 1960–61, 1963–64, 1964–65 *

Taça de Portugal The Taça de Portugal (; "Cup of Portugal") is an annual association football competition and the premier knockout tournament in Portuguese football. For sponsorship reasons, it has been known as Taça de Portugal Placard since the 2015–16 seaso ...

: 1958–59, 1961–62, 1963–64 *

: 1960–61, 1961–62 * Intercontinental Cup runner-up:

1961 Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba ( Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 ...

References

1935 births 1999 deaths Portuguese men's footballers People from Montijo, Portugal Men's association football midfielders S.L. Benfica footballers S.C. Braga players UEFA Champions League winning players Footballers from Setúbal District {{Portugal-footy-midfielder-stub