Mário Coluna
 Coluna in 1969 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Mário Esteves Coluna | ||
| Date of birth | 6 August 1935 | ||
| Place of birth | Inhaca, Mozambique | ||
| Date of death | 25 February 2014 (aged 78) | ||
| Place of death | Maputo, Mozambique | ||
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Albasini | |||
| Ferroviário | |||
| 1951–1954 | Desportivo Lourenço Marques | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1954–1970 | Benfica | 364 | (89) |
| 1970–1971 | Lyon | 19 | (2) |
| 1971–1972 | Estrela Portalegre | ||
| Total | 383 | (91) | |
| National team | |||
| 1955–1968 | Portugal | 57 | (8) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only | |||
Mário Esteves Coluna (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈmaɾiu kuˈlunɐ]; 6 August 1935 – 25 February 2014) was a Portuguese footballer. He played mainly as a central midfielder.
He spent most of his career with Benfica, appearing in 525 official games and scoring 127 goals during 16 professional seasons. Dubbed Monstro Sagrado (Sacred Monster) he won 19 major titles with his main club, including ten national leagues and two European Cups.[1]
Coluna represented Portugal at the 1966 World Cup, playing nearly 60 times.
Coluna died on 25 February 2014 at the age of 78 in Maputo, after not being able to overcome a pulmonary infection.[2]
Honours
[change | change source]Benfica
- Primeira Liga: 1954–55, 1956–57, 1959–60, 1960–61, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1966–67, 1967–68, 1968–69[3]
- Taça de Portugal:[4] 1954–55, 1956–57, 1958–59, 1961–62, 1963–64, 1968–69
- European Cup:[5] 1960–61, 1961–62
- Intercontinental Cup runner-up: 1961,[6] 1962[7]
Portugal
- FIFA World Cup third-place: 1966[8]
Individual
- World Soccer World XI: 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966[9]
- FIFA World Cup All-Star Team: 1966[10]
- FIFA XI: 1967[11]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Coluna" (in Portuguese). Vedeta ou Marreta?. 24 November 2010. Retrieved 17 October 2013.
- ↑ "Morreu Mário Coluna" [Mário Coluna is dead] (in Portuguese). Record. 25 February 2014. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
- ↑ "Especial 'Tetra'" ['Tetra' special edition]. Mística (in Portuguese). No. 33. Portugal: Impresa Publishing. April–June 2017. p. 69. ISSN 3846-0823.
- ↑ "Luisão faz história e torna-se no jogador com mais títulos no Benfica" [Luisão makes history and becomes the player with most titles at Benfica] (in Portuguese). SAPO. 5 August 2017. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
- ↑ "Bicampeões para a história" [Back-to-back champions for the ages]. Visão (in Portuguese). Portugal: Impresa Publishing. May 2015. p. 45. ISSN 0872-3540.
- ↑ "Intercontinental Cup 1961". FIFA. 7 May 2007. Archived from the original on 25 September 2019. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
- ↑ "Extraordinary Pele crowns Santos in Lisbon". FIFA. 11 October 2012. Archived from the original on 4 June 2019. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
- ↑ Paixão, Paulo; Castanheira, José Pedro (13 July 2016). "A lenda dos Magriços começou há 50 anos" [The legend of the Magriços started 50 years ago]. Expresso (in Portuguese). Retrieved 9 April 2020.
- ↑ "Eric Batty's World XI – The Sixties". Beyond the Last Man. 29 April 2013. Retrieved 26 November 2015.
- ↑ "Inglaterra 1966: a equipa ideal" [England 1966: the all-star team] (in Portuguese). TVI 24. 1 November 2001. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
- ↑ Leme de Arruda, Marcelo. "FIFA XI´s Matches – Full Info". RSSSF. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
Other websites
[change | change source]- Mário Coluna on IMDb
- Profile at Zerozero Archived 2013-10-17 at the Wayback Machine
- Stats at ForaDeJogo Archived 2016-08-09 at the Wayback Machine
