António Frasco

António Manuel Frasco Vieira (born 16 January 1955), known as Frasco, is a Portuguese former footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.

This name uses Portuguese naming customs: the first or maternal family name is Frasco and the second or paternal family name is Vieira.
António Frasco
Personal information
Full name António Manuel Frasco Vieira
Date of birth (1955-01-16) 16 January 1955
Place of birth Leça da Palmeira, Portugal
Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1973–1978 Leixões 101 (9)
1978–1989 Porto 238 (15)
1989–1990 Leixões 17 (1)
Total 356 (25)
National team
1979–1987 Portugal 23 (1)
Teams managed
1990–1991 Vila Real
1991 Ovarense
1992–1993 Feirense
1993 Leça
1997–1998 Lusitânia
1998 Aves
1999 Louletano
1999–2000 Ermesinde
2002 Dragões Sandinenses
2003–2004 Beira-Mar (assistant)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Best known for his 11-year spell with Porto, he appeared in more than 300 official matches for the club and won a total of 13 major titles. He was chosen by Portuguese sports newspaper Record as one of the best 100 Portuguese football players ever.

Frasco earned more than 20 caps for Portugal, representing the nation at Euro 1984.

Club career

Frasco was born in Leça da Palmeira. In spite of a short height his first sport was basketball, but Óscar Marques, a scout from Leixões SC, discovered him and took him to the club. He made his debut in the first-team – and the Primeira Liga, a competition in which he would spend 15 of his 17 years as a professional – at the age of 18, contributing with ten games as the Matosinhos side barely avoided relegation.[1]

Frasco eventually imposed himself in the first team, as a starter, as Leixões suffered relegation in 1977.[2] In the following year's off-season, however, he signed for FC Porto after a failed transfer to S.L. Benfica two years earlier. In his first season with the José Maria Pedroto-led side he played all 30 matches as the team won the national championship,[3] scoring a career-best six goals in the following campaign, with the league being narrowly lost to Sporting CP[4] as the domestic cup to Benfica.

After 1986, Frasco began suffering from successive small injuries which diminished his importance in the squad. He still appeared in seven games in Porto's victorious campaign in the European Cup, including 25 minutes in the final against FC Bayern Munich (2–1), eventually leaving in June 1989 at the age of 34.[5]

Frasco then worked as a manager, coaching several teams in no higher than the second division. He returned to main club Porto in 2006 and worked with several of its youth sides, always as assistant.

International career

On 17 October 1979, Frasco made his debut for Portugal, in a 0–2 loss against Belgium in Brussels for the UEFA Euro 1980 qualifiers. He was one of the most influential players in the successful Euro 1984 campaign, taking part in all the matches as the national team reached the semi-finals[6] and assisting Nené for the only goal against Romania in the group stage.

Over eight years, Frasco played 23 times and scored once.

António Frasco: International goals
GoalDateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
14 February 1987Estádio Primeiro de Maio, Braga, Portugal Belgium1–01–0Friendly

Honours

Porto

Notes
  • DIAS, Rui, Record – 100 Melhores do Futebol Português – Volume I (Record – The 100 best of Portuguese Football, 2002, EDISPORT

References
  1. "Época 1973/74: Primeira Divisão" [1973/74 season: First Division] (in Portuguese). Arquivos da Bola. 19 April 2007. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  2. "Época 1976/77: Primeira Divisão" [1976/77 season: First Division] (in Portuguese). Arquivos da Bola. 28 March 2007. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  3. "Época 1978/79: Primeira Divisão" [1978/79 season: First Division] (in Portuguese). Arquivos da Bola. 15 March 2007. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  4. "Época 1979/80: Primeira Divisão" [1979/80 season: First Division] (in Portuguese). Arquivos da Bola. 8 March 2007. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  5. "1988/89: FC Porto sem troféus e dez campeões europeus a chorar" [1988/89: FC Porto without trophies and ten European champions crying] (in Portuguese). Mais Futebol. 28 April 2014. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
  6. "Platini faz a diferença em meia-final de sonho" [Platini makes the difference in dream semi-final] (in Portuguese). UEFA. 4 October 2003. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
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