António Manuel Frasco Vieira (born 16 January 1955), known as Frasco, is a Portuguese former

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who played as an

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. Best known for his 11-year spell with

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, he appeared in more than 300 official matches for the club and won a total of 13 major titles. He was chosen by Portuguese sports newspaper '' Record'' as one of the best 100 Portuguese football players ever. Frasco earned more than 20

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for

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, representing the nation at Euro 1984.

Club career

Frasco was born in Leça da Palmeira. In spite of a short height his first sport was basketball, but Óscar Marques, a scout from Leixões SC, discovered him and took him to the club. He made his debut in the first-team – and the Primeira Liga, a competition in which he would spend 15 of his 17 years as a professional – at the age of 18, contributing with ten games as the Matosinhos side barely avoided relegation. Frasco eventually imposed himself in the first team, as a starter, as Leixões suffered relegation in 1977. In the following year's off-season, however, he signed for FC Porto after a failed transfer to

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two years earlier. In his first season with the

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-led side he played all 30 matches as the team won the national championship, scoring a career-best six goals in the following campaign, with the league being narrowly lost to

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as the domestic cup to Benfica. After 1986, Frasco began suffering from successive small injuries which diminished his importance in the squad. He still appeared in seven games in Porto's victorious campaign in the European Cup, including 25 minutes in

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against FC Bayern Munich (2–1), eventually leaving in June 1989 at the age of 34. Frasco then worked as a

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, coaching several teams in no higher than the

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. He returned to main club Porto in 2006 and worked with several of its youth sides, always as assistant.

International career

On 17 October 1979, Frasco made his debut for

, in a 0–2 loss against

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in Brussels for the

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qualifiers. He was one of the most influential players in the successful Euro 1984 campaign, taking part in all the matches as the national team reached the semi-finals and assisting Nené for the only goal against

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in the group stage. Over eight years, Frasco played 23 times and scored once.

Honours

Porto *

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: 1978–79, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1987–88 *

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: 1983–84, 1987–88 *

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1983 The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning ...

1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeas ...

1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 **Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. **Spain and Portugal enter ...

* European Cup: 1986–87 * European Super Cup:

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* Intercontinental Cup:

Notes

*DIAS, Rui, ''Record – 100 Melhores do Futebol Português – Volume I'' (Record – The 100 best of Portuguese Football, 2002, EDISPORT

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Frasco, Antonio 1955 births Living people Portuguese footballers Association football midfielders Primeira Liga players Liga Portugal 2 players Leixões S.C. players FC Porto players Portugal under-21 international footballers Portugal international footballers UEFA Euro 1984 players Portuguese football managers Liga Portugal 2 managers C.D. Feirense managers C.D. Aves managers Sportspeople from Matosinhos