Artur Jorge (footballer)

Artur Jorge

Personal information
Full name	Artur Jorge Braga de Melo Teixeira
Date of birth	(1946-02-13) 13 February 1946
Place of birth	Porto, Portugal
Position(s)	Striker
Team information
Current team	MC Alger (coach)
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)
International career
1967–1977	Portugal	16	(1)
Managerial career
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–	MC Alger
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

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

Club career

As a junior player, he started at the junior team of FC Porto. As professional player, he played for Académica de Coimbra and Benfica, before ending his career in Belenenses, in the 1977–78 season, due to a serious injury. During his player 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, after his transfer to S.L. Benfica. During his career as a player, he won four Portuguese Football Championships, two Portuguese Football Cups, and two silver boots, the prize for best goalscorer. He underwent knee surgery five times during his career, this is attributed as one of the causes of his declining abilities at the end of the career. His career would ultimately come to an end as the result of a training ground accident at the Estádio Nacional, where he broke his leg.

International career

Despite having been one of the top scorers at Benfica during his time there, the concurrence of other great forwards, such as Eusébio, Rui Jordão, and Nené, explain why he had only 16 caps for the Portuguese national team, earning two caps at Académica de Coimbra, 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 game was on 30 March 1977, which resulted in a 1–0 win over Switzerland, in another friendly match, this time 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.

Artur Jorge: International goals

Goal	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

Managerial career

After his player career, he went to Leipzig, East Germany to study football and training methodology. He started his managerial career working with Vitória de Guimarães, moving on to Belenenses, Portimonense and then signing with FC Porto for the 1984–85 season, where he won three national champion titles and two Cups of Portugal. 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 Artur). He moved to Racing Paris the next season, 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.

He 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 – Académica de Coimbra, Vitesse, Tenerife, CSKA Moscow, and the Portuguese national team, first, still as Porto coach, for 1989–90 and 1990–91, later for the 1996–97 seasons, Switzerland, and since 2004, Cameroon. He failed to lead his team to the 2006 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. Jorge managed French second division team Créteil in 2006–07.

On 27 November 2014, he joined Algerian club MC Alger, and ended a seven-year period without coaching.

Honours

Player

Benfica

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

Individual

• Bola de Prata: 1970–71, 1971–72

Manager

• Primeira Liga: 1984–85, 1985–86, 1989–90
• Taça de Portugal: 1990–91
• Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira: 1984, 1986, 1990
• Ligue 1: 1994
• Coupe de France: 1993
• Saudi Premier League: 2002
• UEFA Champions League: 1987
• Russian Super Cup: 2004
• Asian Cup Winners' Cup: 2002

References

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Emerich Jenei	European Cup Winning Coach 1986–87	Succeeded by Guus Hiddink