Fernando Peres da Silva (8 January 1943 – 10 February 2019), known as Peres, was a Portuguese professional football

left winger A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. 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 ...

and

manager Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government body. It is the art and science of managing resources of the business. Management includes the activities ...

Club career

Peres was born in Algés, Oeiras,

Lisbon metropolitan area The Lisbon Metropolitan Area ( pt, Área Metropolitana de Lisboa; abbreviated as AML) is a metropolitan area in Portugal centered on Lisbon, the capital and largest city of the country. The metropolitan area, covering 18 municipalities is the l ...

. He played for C.F. Os Belenenses,

Sporting CP 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 foot ...

, Académica de Coimbra and FC Porto in his country; he experienced his best years with the second club, winning four major titles including two Primeira Liga championships and amassing top-tier totals of 271 games and 87 goals over 13 seasons. On either side of his spell with Porto, Peres competed in Brazil, winning the 1974 national championship with

CR Vasco da Gama Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama (), commonly referred as Vasco da Gama or simply Vasco, is a professional sports club based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Originally a rowing club, Vasco is mostly known for its football team, who it currently compet ...

and the regional league with Sport Club do Recife. He retired with

Treze Futebol Clube Treze Futebol Clube is a Brazilian football team from Campina Grande in Paraíba, founded on September 7, 1925. Historically, the club has competed in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A several times. Recently, the club has competed only in ...

at the age of 33, going to have a brief stint as coach; his Portuguese top division experience consisted of 26 matches with

U.D. Leiria União Desportiva de Leiria, commonly known as União de Leiria (), is a Portuguese football club based in Leiria, central Portugal. Founded on 6 June 1966, it currently plays in the Campeonato de Portugal, holding home matches at Estádio Dr. ...

, and seven with

Vitória de Guimarães Vitoria or Vitória may refer to : People * Francisco de Vitoria (c. 1483–1546), a Spanish Renaissance theologian * Alberto Vitoria (1956–2010), Spanish footballer * Rui Vitória (born 1970), Portuguese retired footballer * Steven Vitória ...

International career

Peres earned 27

caps Caps are flat headgear. Caps or CAPS may also refer to: Science and technology Computing * CESG Assisted Products Service, provided by the U.K. Government Communications Headquarters * Composite Application Platform Suite, by Java Caps, a Ja ...

for

Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ...

, scoring four goals. His debut came on 4 June 1964 in a 1–1 friendly draw with

England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...

where he scored his team's goal, and his last appearance was during the

Brazil Independence Cup The Brazil Independence Cup was an international football tournament held in Brazil, from 11 June to 9 July 1972, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Brazilian Declaration of Independence. It was called the ''Minicopa'' by the Brazilian ...

final against the hosts, on 9 June 1972. Peres was included in the squad for the 1966 FIFA World Cup, but he did not make any appearances in England.

Death

On 10 February 2019, one month after being admitted in the facility, Peres died at the

António Egas Moniz António Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz (29 November 1874 – 13 December 1955), known as Egas Moniz (), was a Portuguese neurologist and the developer of cerebral angiography. He is regarded as one of the founders of modern psychosurgery, ...

Hospital in Lisbon. He was 76 years old.

Honours

Sporting CP * Primeira Liga: 1965–66, 1969–70 *

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 sea ...

: 1970–71, 1972–73 Vasco * Campeonato Brasileiro Série A: 1974 Sport * Campeonato Pernambucano: 1975 Portugal *

FIFA World Cup The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the ' ( FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The tournament ha ...

third place: 1966

References

External links

* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Peres, Fernando 1943 births 2019 deaths People from Oeiras, Portugal Portuguese men's footballers Footballers from Lisbon District Men's association football wingers Primeira Liga players C.F. Os Belenenses players Sporting CP footballers Académica de Coimbra (football) players FC Porto players Campeonato Brasileiro Série A players CR Vasco da Gama players Sport Club do Recife players Treze Futebol Clube players Portugal men's youth international footballers Portugal men's B international footballers Portugal men's international footballers 1966 FIFA World Cup players Portuguese expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Brazil Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Brazil Portuguese football managers Primeira Liga managers Liga Portugal 2 managers U.D. Leiria managers Vitória S.C. managers G.D. Estoril Praia managers Juventude Sport Clube managers Atlético Clube de Portugal managers