Acúrsio Carrelo

Acúrsio Freire Alves Carrelo, also Acúrcio Freire Alves Carrelo ( born March 16, 1931 in Lourenço Marques, today's Maputo, Mozambique; † January 9, 2010 in Portugal), was a Portuguese roller hockey and soccer star. At club level, he was active for FC Porto, with whom he was champion twice and won the cup.

The European-derived Carrelo originally played in the colonial capital, Lourenço Marques for Ferroviário and was transferred in 1955 because of his striking talent for FC Porto in the mother country. In the 1950s, football was still largely amateur sport in Portugal. Often players exerted even more sports. Acúrsio Carrelo divided his interests between roller hockey, where he was among the pioneers of the sport at FC Porto and was active as a striker, and football. In both sports, he took up for the Portuguese national team.

Of the seasons 1955/56, in which he made his debut as a 15- year-old, until 1960/61, he was a total of 59 times in goal for the football team FC Porto. He won among the coaches Dorival Knippel " Yustrich " and Béla Guttmann, a pioneer in the professionalization of the Portuguese football, the championships of 1956 and 1959 - to 1978, the last championship of the club - and the Cup in 1957, although he in previous years, so was in the cup final, still second only to the multiple goalkeeper Manuel Henriques de Pinho. In 1958 he succeeded so far as the only goalie in a Portuguese first division - in a 3-1 win against CF " Os Belenenses " in Restelo Stadium of Lisbon - a discount accommodate right in the opponent's goal.

On 21 May 1959 he was in Gothenburg with a 0-2 loss in a friendly international match against Sweden in the Portuguese national football team made ​​its debut. With the national team, he also took part in the qualifying matches for the European Championship 1960 in part where Portugal was initially able to prevail against the GDR, but in the quarter- finals after a 2-1 home win against eventual finalists Yugoslavia in the return leg on 22 May 1960 in Belgrade with 1: 5 subject. This was his eighth and final international. Among his better-known colleagues were among his Länderspielkarrïere Mário Coluna and Domicianus Cavém, both from SL Benfica, as well as Germano de Figueiredo from Lisbon Atlético Clube de Portugal, who later played for Benfica.

After the 1961 domestic Estádio das Antas against Leixões SC with 0:2 lost cup final he finished his footballer career and returned to Mozambique. In Porto him his substitute Américo Lopes followed after, which should also be international.

In Mozambique, he became involved again in roller hockey and was player-coach at Sporting Lourenço Marques 1962/63 Master of the then Portuguese colony. Soon, however, he returned to Porto, where he now as a goalkeeper, his roller hockey activity continued for the time being and for example in 1969 won the city championship.