Matateu
Sign in to saveSebastião Lucas da Fonseca (26 July 1927 – 27 January 2000), known as Matateu (), was a Portuguese footballer who played as a striker.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Sebastião
- Family name
- Fonseca
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Portugal
- Place of birth
- Maputo
- Place of death
- Victoria
- Sibling
- Vicente Lucas
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- Portuguese
- Native language
- Portuguese
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Portugal men's national football team
- Position played
- forward
- Country for sport
- Portugal
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- date of birth
- 1927-07-26
- date of death
- 2000-01-27
- nickname
- Matateu
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- Club career
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Sebastião Lucas da Fonseca (26 July 1927 – 27 January 2000), known as Matateu (), was a Portuguese footballer who played as a striker.
His professional career, which spanned more than 20 years, was closely associated to Belenenses. He won the Bola de Prata twice during his spell with the club, and scored 219 goals in 291 Primeira Liga games, being dubbed the ''World's Eighth Wonder''.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Matateu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.