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Artur Jorge Braga Melo Teixeira (born 13 February 1946), commonly known as Artur Jorge, is a Portuguese football manager and former player, who played as a forward.

Artur Jorge

Artur Jorge in 1972
Personal information
Full name	Artur Jorge Braga de Melo Teixeira
Date of birth	(1946-02-13) 13 February 1946 (age 76)
Place of birth	Porto, Portugal
Position(s)	Striker
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1964–1965	Porto	4	(1)
1965–1969	Académica	96	(72)
1969–1975	Benfica	130	(105)
1975–1978	Belenenses	51	(14)
1977	→ Rochester Lancers (loan)	7	(2)
National team
1967–1977	Portugal	16	(1)
Teams managed
1980–1981	Vitória de Guimarães
1981	Belenenses
1981–1983	Portimonense
1984–1987	Porto
1987–1989	Racing Paris
1989–1991	Porto
1991–1994	Paris Saint-Germain
1994–1995	Benfica
1995–1996	Switzerland
1996–1997	Portugal
1997–1998	Tenerife
1998	Vitesse
1998–1999	Paris Saint-Germain
2000–2001	Al-Nassr
2001–2002	Al-Hilal
2002–2003	Académica
2003–2004	CSKA Moscow
2004–2006	Cameroon
2006	Al-Nassr
2006–2007	Créteil
2014–2015	MC Alger
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Club career

As a junior player, Artur Jorge started at the junior team of FC Porto. As professional player, he played for Académica de Coimbra and Benfica, before ending his career at Belenenses in the 1977–78 season, due to a serious injury suffered at a training session in the Estádio Nacional where he broke a leg. He also had a stint in the North American Soccer League with the Rochester Lancers.[1] During his playing days in Coimbra, Jorge was a student at the Faculty of Literature of the University of Coimbra, graduating in Germanic Philology from the University of Lisbon in 1975 during his time at Benfica. As a player, he won four Portuguese league championships, two Taça de Portugal cups and two silver boots for being the best goalscorer. He underwent knee surgery five times during his career,^{[citation needed]} this is attributed as one of the causes of his declining abilities at the end of the career.^{[citation needed]}

International career

Despite having been one of the top scorers at Benfica, the concurrence of other great forwards such as Eusébio, Rui Jordão and Nené largely limited Artur Jorge to only 16 caps for Portugal, earning two caps while at Académica, 13 at Benfica and one while playing for Belenenses, scoring only one goal during his international career. His debut, on 27 March 1967, was a 1–1 draw with Italy, in a friendly match, in Rome. His last match was on 30 March 1977, a 1–0 win over Switzerland in another friendly match, in Funchal, Madeira. He was a member of the squad that reached the Brazil Independence Cup final, in 1972, the highest point of his international career.

Managerial career

After his player career, Artur Jorge went to Leipzig, East Germany, to study football and training methodology. He started his managerial career working with Vitória de Guimarães,[2] moving on to Belenenses,[3] Portimonense and then signing with Porto for the 1984–85 season, where he won three national champion titles and two Taça de Portugal titles. His greatest success was to win the European Cup with Porto over favourites Bayern Munich 2–1. Jorge is known since then as "Rei Artur" ("King Arthur"). He moved to Racing Paris the next season,[4] and returned to Porto in 1989–90. He then moved to Paris Saint-Germain in 1991–92, where he won the national championship in 1993–94.[5]

Artur Jorge moved to Benfica in 1994–95, finishing third with his team, and was replaced at the beginning of the following season. Since then, he has been coach of several other clubs including Académica de Coimbra, Vitesse Arnhem, Tenerife and CSKA Moscow. He managed the Portugal national team, initially while still Porto coach during the 1989–90 and 1990–91 seasons, and again during the 1996–97 season. He also managed the Switzerland team at UEFA Euro 1996, replacing Roy Hodgson under whom they had qualified.[6][7] Since 2004 he managed Cameroon.[8][9] He failed to lead his team to the 2006 FIFA World Cup. He managed Saudi club Al-Nasr for only two cup matches and was sacked following a 4–1 defeat by lowly club Al-Faisaly. He then managed French second division team Créteil in 2006–07.[10]

On 27 November 2014, Artur Jorge joined Algerian club MC Alger, ending a seven-year period without coaching.[11] That appointment ended on 8 October 2015.

Career statistics

Scores and results list Portugal's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Artur Jorge goal.

List of international goals scored by Artur Jorge

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	29 March 1972	Estádio da Luz (1954), Lisbon, Portugal	Cyprus	3–0	4–0	1974 World Cup qualification

Honours

Player

Benfica

• Primeira Liga: 1970–71, 1971–72, 1972–73, 1974–75[12]
• Taça de Portugal: 1969–70, 1971–72

Individual

• Bola de Prata: 1970–71, 1971–72

Manager

Porto

• Primeira Liga: 1984–85, 1985–86, 1989–90
• Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira: 1984, 1986, 1990
• Taça de Portugal: 1990–91
• European Cup: 1987

Paris Saint-Germain

• Division 1: 1994
• Coupe de France: 1993

Al-Hilal

• Saudi Premier League: 2002
• Asian Cup Winners' Cup: 2002

CSKA Moscow

• Russian Super Cup: 2004

Individual

• European Coach of the Season: 1986–87

References

External links

• Artur Jorge at ForaDeJogo (archived)
• Artur Jorge at National-Football-Teams.com

На других языках

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- [en] Artur Jorge (footballer, born 1946)

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[es] Artur Jorge

Artur Jorge Braga de Melo Teixeira (nacido el 13 de febrero de 1946, en Oporto), es un entrenador de fútbol portugués, además de exfutbolista. También es conocido por escribir poesía. Fue elegido uno de los 100 mejores futbolistas portugueses de la historia por el periódico deportivo Record.

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[fr] Artur Jorge

Artur Jorge Braga de Melo Teixeira, plus couramment appelé Artur Jorge (né le 13 février 1946 à Porto au Portugal) est un footballeur portugais, qui évoluait au poste d'attaquant, avant de devenir ensuite entraîneur.

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[it] Artur Jorge

Artur Jorge, all'anagrafe Artur Jorge Braga de Melo Teixeira (Oporto, 13 febbraio 1946), è un ex allenatore di calcio ed ex calciatore portoghese.

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