Mário Jorge

Mário Jorge

Personal information
Full name	Mário Jorge da Silva Pinto Fernandes
Date of birth	July 24, 1961 (1961-07-24) (age 50)
Place of birth	Ponta Delgada, Portugal
Playing position	Midfielder
Youth career
1975–1980	Sporting CP
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1980–1989	Sporting CP	183	(15)
1989–1990	Beira-Mar	23	(1)
1990–1991	Sporting CP	8	(1)
1991–1992	Estrela Amadora	14	(1)
1994–1995	Estoril	8	(0)
National team
1983–1987	Portugal	9	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Mário Jorge da Silva Pinto Fernandes (born 24 July 1961 in Ponta Delgada, Azores), known as Mário Jorge, is a retired Portuguese footballer who played as a midfielder.

Football career

Jorge made his professional debuts at Sporting Clube de Portugal at the age of 18, playing one match in the 1979–80 season as the Lisbon side won the national championship – he would already be an important first-team member as the team won it again two years later, the last for the following 18 years.

After only 12 matches in 1988–89, Jorge left Sporting and joined fellow top-divisioner S.C. Beira-Mar, but returned to the club at the season's end, again being rarely played. He concluded his career in 1995 after stints with two other clubs from the capital, C.F. Estrela da Amadora and G.D. Estoril Praia, both in the second level (he joined the latter after two years of inactivity).

Jorge gained nine caps for Portugal, seven of those coming after the 1986 World Cup, following the defection of practically all of the national team squad due to the infamous Saltillo Affair.

External links

• Profile at Zerozero
• Stats at ForaDeJogo (Portuguese)
• Mário Jorge at National-Football-Teams.com

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Name	Jorge, Mario
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Date of birth	24 July 1961
Place of birth	Ponta Delgada, Portugal
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