Rui Jordão

Rui Manuel Trindade Jordão ( born August 9, 1952 in Benguela, Angola ) is a former Portuguese football player. He began his career at Sporting Benguela and signed in the 1971/72 season at Benfica.

Rui Jordão scored six goals in his first season in seventeen games. In the same year he was also player in the Portuguese national football team. His first game he scored against Cyprus in a World Cup qualifier. In the same year he lost with Portugal against the Brazilian national football team 0-1. He played 43 times for the Portuguese national football team, from 1972 to 1989, where he scored fifteen goals. The high point in his career he experienced in 1984 when he scored two goals against the French national football team in the semifinals of the European Championship. On August 28, 1977, he signed a contract with Sporting Lisbon.

In the championship, he was twice Portuguese scorer for Benfica in the season 1975/1976 with 28 goals and Sporting in the 1979/80 season with 31 goals in 29 games.

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Clubs

• Portuguese champions (6): 1971/72 1972 /73 1974/75 1975 /76 1979/80, 1981/82
• Portuguese Cup Winners ( 3): 1972, 1978, 1982
• Portuguese Super Cup winner: 1982

Personally

• Portuguese Footballer of the Year: 1980
• Portuguese goalscorer: 1975 /76 ( 30 goals ), 1979 /80 ( 31 goals)

• National football team (Portugal )
• Portuguese
• Born in 1952
• Man