Fernando Cruz (footballer)
.png) Cruz with Benfica in 1965 | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Fernando da Conceição Cruz | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 12 August 1940 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Lisbon, Portugal | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 16 August 2025 (aged 85) | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Left-back | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1956–1959 | Benfica | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1959–1970 | Benfica | 227 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1970–1971 | Paris Saint-Germain | 24 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 251 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1961–1968 | Portugal | 11 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Fernando da Conceição Cruz (12 August 1940 – 16 August 2025) was a Portuguese professional footballer. He played as a left-back. He played for Benfica from 1959 to 1970 and for the Portugal national team from 1961 to 1968.
Cruz died on 16 August 2025, at the age of 85.[1]
Honours
[change | change source]Benfica
- Primeira Liga: 1959–60, 1960–61, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1966–67, 1967–68, 1968–69[2]
- Taça de Portugal: 1961–62, 1963–64, 1968–69, 1969–70[3]
- European Cup:[3] 1960–61, 1961–62; runner-up 1962–63, 1964–65, 1967–68
- Intercontinental Cup runner-up 1961,[4] 1962
Paris Saint-Germain
Portugal
- FIFA World Cup third-place: 1966[6]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Morreu Cruz, bicampeão europeu pelo Benfica (in Portuguese)
- ↑ "Especial 'Tetra'" ['Tetra' special edition]. Mística (in Portuguese). No. 33. Portugal: Impresa Publishing. April–June 2017. p. 74. ISSN 3846-0823.
- 1 2 "Bicampeões para a história" [Back-to-back champions for the ages]. Visão (in Portuguese). Portugal: Impresa Publishing. May 2015. p. 47. ISSN 0872-3540.
- ↑ "Intercontinental Cup 1961". FIFA. 7 May 2007. Archived from the original on 25 September 2019. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
- ↑ "Fernando CRUZ" (in French). Histoire du PSG. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
- ↑ 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.
Other Websites
[change | change source]- Fernando Cruz at ForaDeJogo
- Fernando Cruz at National-Football-Teams.com
- Fernando Cruz – FIFA competition record (archived)
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