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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.

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Instance of
human
Given name
Sebastião
Family name
Fonseca
Gender
male
Citizenship
Portugal
Place of birth
Maputo
Place of death
Victoria
Languages spoken
Portuguese
Native language
Portuguese
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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  • International 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.

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