Santana (footballer)

For other people with the same name, see Santana.

Joaquim Santana Silva Guimarães (22 March 1936 – 24 April 1989), known as Santana, was a Portuguese footballer who played as a right half.^[1]

Joaquim Santana

Santana in 1963
Personal information
Full name	Joaquim Santana Silva Guimarães
Date of birth	(1936-03-22)22 March 1936
Place of birth	Lobito, Portuguese Angola
Date of death	24 April 1989(1989-04-24) (aged 53)
Place of death	Freamunde, Portugal
Height	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s)	Right half
Youth career
	Catumbela
	Benfica
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1954–1967	Benfica	108	(51)
International career
1960–1963	Portugal	5	(1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

A Portugal international, he played his entire career with Benfica.

Club career

Santana was born in Lobito, Benguela Province, Portuguese Angola. After starting playing football in Angola for Sport Clube da Catumbela, he joined Portuguese first division club S.L. Benfica at the age of 18, being promoted to the first team two years later.

With Benfica, Santana appeared in 162 official games and scored 79 goals, winning six national championships and three Portuguese Cups. In the 1960–61 edition of the European Cup he played an essential role as the club won the competition, netting four goals in nine matches, including one in the final against FC Barcelona (3–2);^[1] he lost his importance in the following seasons (which included two more European Cup finals), after the arrival of another player from the colonies, Eusébio.^[2][3]

International career

Santana was capped five times for Portugal, scoring one goal. His debut came on 8 May 1960 against Yugoslavia for the 1960 European Nations' Cup, and he found the net in the 2–1 win in Lisbon, but the national team lost the second leg 1–5 and did not make it to the last-four in France.

Almost three years later, against Bulgaria at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Santana played his last game, a 1964 European Nations' Cup qualifier replay (0–1 loss).

Honours

Benfica

• Primeira Divisão: 1956–57, 1959–60, 1960–61, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1966–67^[4]
• Taça de Portugal:^[5] 1958–59, 1961–62, 1963–64
• Taça de Honra (2)^[5]
• European Cup:^[5] 1960–61, 1961–62
• Intercontinental Cup runner-up: 1962^[6]

See also

• List of one-club men

References

1. "Santana (22/03/1936 – 24/04/1989)" (in Portuguese). S.L. Benfica. Retrieved 5 October 2010.
2. Malheiro, João (July 2006). Memorial Benfica 100 Glórias [Benfica Memorial, 100 glories] (in Portuguese) (Third ed.). QuidNovi. p. 127. ISBN 978-972-8998-26-4.
3. "100 anos: Joaquim Santana: MÉDIOS-CENTRO" (in Portuguese). Record. 25 August 2003.
4. "Especial 'Tetra'" ['Tetra' special edition]. Mística (in Portuguese). No. 33. Portugal: Impresa Publishing. April–June 2017. p. 78. ISSN 3846-0823.
5. "Bicampeões para a história" [Back-to-back champions for the ages]. Visão (in Portuguese). Portugal: Impresa Publishing. May 2015. p. 47. ISSN 0872-3540.
6. "Extraordinary Pele crowns Santos in Lisbon". FIFA. 11 October 2012. Archived from the original on 4 June 2019. Retrieved 24 September 2019.

External links

• Santana at ForaDeJogo (archived)
• Santana at National-Football-Teams.com
• Santana at EU-Football.info