Shéu Han (born 3 August 1953), simply known as Shéu (), is a Portuguese retired
footballer
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who played as a
central midfielder
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Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
.
He only played for
Benfica during a 17-year professional career. He also served as their
caretaker manager in 1999.
Club career
Shéu, who has
Chinese ancestry, was born in
Inhassoro,
Portuguese Mozambique
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. He arrived in Portugal in 1970, joining
S.L. Benfica
Sport Lisboa e Benfica (), commonly known as Benfica, is a professional football club based in Lisbon, Portugal, that competes in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portuguese football.
Founded on 28 February 1904 as ''Sport Lisboa'', Be ...
's youth ranks and making his first appearance with the main squad in October 1972,
but only became a regular three seasons later.
Shéu would remain in
Lisbon until the end of his career and even
captained the team from 1987 to 1988. He was an important member in the conquest of nine
Primeira Liga championships and six
domestic cups.
In addition, Shéu played in the
1983 UEFA Cup Final which Benfica lost to
R.S.C. Anderlecht 1–2 on aggregate, scoring the leading goal in the return leg in Lisbon, and also helped his only club to the
1987–88 European Cup final
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, a
penalty shootout
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loss to
PSV Eindhoven
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. He retired with 349 league games, only surpassed in midfield by another club legend and countryman,
Mário Coluna
Mário Esteves Coluna (; 6 August 1935 – 25 February 2014) was a Portuguese footballer who played mainly as a central midfielder.
He spent most of his career with Benfica, appearing in 525 official matches and scoring 127 goals during 16 p ...
. In the summer of 1989 he played in the
National Soccer League with
Toronto First Portuguese.
After ending his career in May 1989,
Shéu became a
coach, serving as assistant for Benfica and in other several directorial capacities for more than two decades. In May 1999, after
Graeme Souness
Graeme James Souness (; born 6 May 1953) is a Scottish former professional football player and manager, and current TV pundit.
A midfielder, Souness was the captain of the successful Liverpool team of the early 1980s, player-manager of Ranger ...
' departure, he acted as
interim manager
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.
Shéu left his post as technical secretary at the end of the
2017–18 campaign, but he remained at the
Estádio da Luz
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.
International career
Shéu was
capped
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24 times for the
Portugal national team, scoring one goal. His debut came in a 1–3 defeat to
Italy
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in
Turin
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on 7 April 1976, in a
friendly match
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, and his last appearance was in
Bern, a 1–1 draw with
Switzerland on 29 October 1986 for the
UEFA Euro 1988
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The tournament crowned the Nethe ...
qualifiers.
[Switzerland 1–1 Portugal]
UEFA, 29 October 1986
Shéu also featured for the nation during
Euro 1984's qualifying campaign, but did not make the final squad which eventually finished as
semi-finalists in France.
Honours
Benfica
*
Primeira Divisão
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: 1972–73, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1980–81, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1986–87, 1988–89
*
Taça de Portugal
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(6):
1979–80, 1980–81, 1982–83, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1986–87
*
Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira
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(2):
1980, 1985
*
Taça de Honra
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(6)
*
European Cup: Runner-up
1987–88
*
UEFA Cup
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: Runner-up
1982–83
See also
*
List of one-club men
References
External links
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1953 births
Living people
People from Inhambane Province
Portuguese people of Chinese descent
Colonial people in Mozambique
Sportspeople of Chinese descent
Mozambican footballers
Portuguese footballers
Association football midfielders
Primeira Liga players
Canadian National Soccer League players
S.L. Benfica footballers
Toronto First Portuguese players
Portugal international footballers
Portuguese football managers
S.L. Benfica managers
Primeira Liga managers
Portuguese expatriate footballers
Expatriate soccer players in Canada
Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Canada
S.L. Benfica non-playing staff