Mário Rui (footballer, born 1925)

Mário Rui Sousa e Silva (born 27 March 1925), known as Mário Rui, is a retired Portuguese footballer who played as a forward.

Not to be confused with Mário Rui.
Mário Rui
Personal information
Full name Mário Rui Sousa e Silva
Date of birth (1925-03-27) 27 March 1925
Place of birth Portugal
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
1941–1943 Benfica
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1943–1948 Benfica 30 (18)
1950–1952 Belenenses 37 (7)
1952–1954 Benfica 2 (0)
1954–1956 Oriental de Lisboa
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

He is most known for his five–year spell at Benfica, where he scored 24 goals in 59 games, winning the Taça de Portugal in 1943–44 and the Primeira Liga in 1944–45.

Career

Mário Rui arrived at Benfica at age 16 to play for their youth team. After three years there, on 14 May 1944, he made his debut for the first team in a cup match against Académica.[1][2] He played again a week later, helping Benfica qualify for the Cup final, which he missed.[3][2]

The following year, he played eight games and scored five goals,[4] being part of an offensive line that included Julinho, Espírito Santo, Rogério Pipi and Arsénio and was dubbed the Os Cinco Diabos Vermelhos (Five Red Devils).[5] Mário Rui's breakthrough happened in 1945–46, when he scored 15 goals in 28 matches, being a vital part of the first team that finished second to Belenenses in the league.[6][7] However, the appearance of Vitor Baptista, Corona and Alfredo Melão in the following seasons, removed him of the first team and he became a fringe player.[8][9][10][11]

Mário Rui played for Belenenses from 1950 to 1952, amassing 40 games and nine goals, which helped him return to Benfica in 1952, where he was once again, a rarely used player, with two games in two seasons.[12][13] After Benfica, he played for Oriental de Lisboa until 1956

Honours

Benfica[1]

References

General

  • Tovar, Rui Miguel (2012). Almanaque do Benfica. Portugal: Lua de Papel. ISBN 978-989-23-2087-8.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Specific

  1. Tovar 2012, p. 729.
  2. Tovar 2012, p. 186.
  3. Tovar 2012, p. 188.
  4. Tovar 2012, p. 194.
  5. Rosário, Rui (26 March 2014). "FC Porto-Benfica: Lemos e Julinho, os heróis improváveis que mais maltrataram o arqui-rival" [FC Porto-Benfica: Lemos and Julinho, the improbable hero's that most abused their arch-rival]. Folha Seca (in Portuguese). Retrieved 16 July 2016.
  6. Tovar 2012, p. 195.
  7. Tovar 2012, p. 200.
  8. Tovar 2012, p. 201.
  9. Tovar 2012, p. 207.
  10. Tovar 2012, p. 208.
  11. Tovar 2012, p. 213.
  12. Tovar 2012, p. 244.
  13. Tovar 2012, p. 249.
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