Mascarenhas (footballer)

Domingos António da Silva (28 April 1937 – 25 August 2015), known as Mascarenhas, was an Angolan footballer who played as a forward.

Mascarenhas
Personal information
Full name Domingos António da Silva
Date of birth (1937-04-28)28 April 1937
Place of birth Vila Salazar, Angola
Date of death 25 August 2015(2015-08-25) (aged 78)
Place of death Lisbon, Portugal
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1958–1959 Benfica 2 (1)
1959–1962 Barreirense 25 (10)
1962–1965 Sporting CP 26 (12)
1965–1966 Barreirense 17 (7)
1966–1967 CUF 8 (1)
1967–1968 Peniche
1969–1971 Riopele
1972–1975 Paços Ferreira
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Club career

Mascarenhas was born in Vila Salazar, Portuguese Angola. After one season with S.L. Benfica and three with F.C. Barreirense, he joined Sporting CP in 1962; during his three-year spell with the Lisbon club, he scored 80 goals in 107 matches all appearances comprised, even friendlies.

In the 1963 Portuguese Cup final, Mascarenhas scored once in a 4–0 victory over Vitória de Guimarães. The following campaign, in Sporting's victorious campaign in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, he netted six times in a 16–1 home rout of APOEL FC (European competition record), adding another in the final against MTK Budapest FC, the 3–3 leading to a replay in Antwerp which ended with a 1–0 win for the Lions.[1][2]

Death

Mascarenhas died on 25 August 2015 at the São José Hospital in Lisbon, after a long illness. He was 78 years old.[3]

References
  1. "1963/64: Sporting at the second attempt". UEFA. 17 August 2001. Archived from the original on 19 May 2008. Retrieved 9 October 2012.
  2. Biografia (Biography) Archived 12 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine; at Sporting CP (in Portuguese)
  3. "Morreu Mascarenhas" [Mascarenhas has died]. A Bola (in Portuguese). 25 August 2015. Archived from the original on 26 August 2015. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
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