Mascarenhas (footballer)

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

Domingos 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

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.^[1][2]

Death

Mascarenhas died on 25 August 2015 at the São José Hospital in Lisbon, after a long illness. He was 78 years old.^[3]