Mascarenhas (footballer)

Mascarenhas
Personal information
Full name Domingos António da Silva
Date of birth (1937-04-28)28 April 1937
Place of birth Vila Salazar, Angola
Date of death 25 August 2015(2015-08-25) (aged 78)
Place of death Lisbon, Portugal
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1958–1959 Benfica 2 (1)
1959–1962 Barreirense 25 (10)
1962–1965 Sporting CP 26 (12)
1965–1966 Barreirense 17 (7)
1966–1967 CUF 8 (1)
1967–1968 Peniche
1969–1971 Riopele
1972–1975 Paços Ferreira
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Domingos António da Silva (28 April 1937 – 25 August 2015), known as Mascarenhas, was an Angolan footballer who played as a forward.

Club career

Mascarenhas was born in Vila Salazar, Portuguese Angola. After one season with S.L. Benfica and three with F.C. Barreirense, he joined Sporting CP in 1962; during his three-year spell with the Lisbon club, he scored 80 goals in 107 matches all appearances comprised, even friendlies.

In the 1963 Portuguese Cup final, Mascarenhas scored once in a 4–0 victory over Vitória de Guimarães. The following campaign, in Sporting's victorious campaign in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, he netted six times in a 16–1 home rout of APOEL FC (European competition record), adding another in the final against MTK Budapest FC, the 3–3 leading to a replay in Antwerp which ended with a 1–0 win for the Lions.

Death

Mascarenhas died on 25 August 2015 at the São José Hospital in Lisbon, after a long illness. He was 78 years old.


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