Mário Jorge

Mário Jorge

Personal information
Full name	Mário Jorge da Silva Pinto Fernandes
Date of birth	(1961-07-24) 24 July 1961
Place of birth	Ponta Delgada, Portugal
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
1975–1980	Sporting CP
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1979–1989	Sporting CP	182	(13)
1989–1990	Beira-Mar	23	(1)
1990–1991	Sporting CP	8	(1)
1991–1993	Estrela Amadora	14	(1)
1994–1995	Estoril	8	(0)
Total		235	(16)
International career
1983–1987	Portugal	9	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

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

Club career

Born in Ponta Delgada, Azores, Mário Jorge made his professional debuts at Sporting Clube de Portugal at the age of 18, playing one match in 1979–80 as the Lisbon club won the Primeira Liga championship. He would already be an important midfield unit as the team conquered it again two seasons later, the last for the following 18 years.

After only 12 games in 1988–89, Mário Jorge left Sporting and signed for fellow league side S.C. Beira-Mar, but returned to where he had come from at the end of the campaign, again being rarely played. He concluded his career in 1995 after stints with two other teams 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).

International career

Mário Jorge gained nine caps for Portugal, seven of those coming after the 1986 FIFA World Cup following the defection of practically all of the national team squad due to the infamous Saltillo Affair. His debut, however, took place on 8 June 1983, when he featured the full 90 minutes in a 0–4 friendly loss against Brazil in Coimbra.

External links

• Mário Jorge at footballzz.co.uk
• Mário Jorge profile at ForaDeJogo
• Mário Jorge at National-Football-Teams.com
• Mário Jorge – FIFA competition record
• Portugal stats at Eu-Football