Albano (footballer)
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Albano Narciso Pereira was a Portuguese
football player who played all his career at Sporting Clube de Portugal, and also played for the Portuguese national football team. He was chosen by Portuguese sports newspaper Record as one of the best 100 Portuguese football players ever. He was born in Seixal, Portugal
. He was one of the famous Cinco Violinos (Five Violins) with José Travassos
, António Jesus Correia
, Fernando Peyroteo
and Manuel Vasques
.
Portuguese people
The Portuguese are a nation and ethnic group native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of south-west Europe. Their language is Portuguese, and Roman Catholicism is the predominant religion....
football player who played all his career at Sporting Clube de Portugal, and also played for the Portuguese national football team. He was chosen by Portuguese sports newspaper Record as one of the best 100 Portuguese football players ever. He was born in Seixal, Portugal
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
. He was one of the famous Cinco Violinos (Five Violins) with José Travassos
José Travassos
José António Barreto Travassos was a Portuguese footballer. He played as a forward....
, António Jesus Correia
António Jesus Correia
António Jesus Correia, better known as Jesus Correia , was a Portuguese footballer and roller hockey player, one of the greatest and most eclectic sportsmen from his generation....
, Fernando Peyroteo
Fernando Peyroteo
Fernando Baptista Seixas Peyroteo was a Portuguese footballer....
and Manuel Vasques
Manuel Vasques
Manuel Soeiro Vasques , born in Barreiro, Portugal, was a Portuguese football player who played as forward, for Sporting CP in the 1940s and 1950s. Vasques was the Portuguese league topscorer in the season 1950/51...
.
Honours
- Portuguese National ChampionshipPortuguese LigaThe Primeira Liga , formerly called Primeira Divisão, currently named Liga ZON Sagres after their main sponsors, is the top professional association football division of the Portuguese football league system...
(8) - (1943/44, 1946/47, 1947/48, 1948/49, 1950/51, 1951/52, 1952/53, 1953/54) - Cup of Portugal (4) - (1944/45, 1945/46, 1947/48, 1953/54)