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António Frasco
Personal information
Full name	António Manuel Frasco Vieira
Date of birth	16 January 1955 (age 69)
Place of birth	Leça da Palmeira, Portugal
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Position(s)	Attacking midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team
1973–1978	Leixões
1978–1989	Porto
1989–1990	Leixões
Total
International career
1979–1987	Portugal
Managerial career
1990–1991	Vila Real
1991	Ovarense
1992–1993	Feirense
1993	Leça
1997–1998	Lusitânia
1998	Aves
1999	Louletano
1999–2000	Ermesinde
2002	Sandinenses
2003–2004	Beira-Mar (assistant)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing Portugal
UEFA European Championship
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

António Manuel Frasco Vieira (born 16 January 1955), known as Frasco, is a Portuguese former footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.

Best known for his 11-year spell with Porto, he appeared in 306 competitive matches for the club and won a total of 12 titles. He was chosen by Portuguese sports newspaper Record as one of the best 100 Portuguese players ever.

Frasco earned 23 caps for Portugal, representing the nation at Euro 1984.

Club career

Frasco was born in Leça da Palmeira. In spite of a short height, his first sport was basketball, but Óscar Marques, a scout from Leixões SC, discovered him and took him to the club.^[1] He made his debut in the first-team – and the Primeira Liga, a competition in which he would spend 15 of his 17 years as a professional – at the age of 18, contributing ten games as the Matosinhos side barely avoided relegation.^[2]

Frasco eventually imposed himself in the main squad, as a starter, as Leixões suffered relegation in 1977.^[3] In summer 1978, however, he signed for FC Porto after a failed transfer to S.L. Benfica two years earlier. In his first season he played all 30 matches as the team coached by José Maria Pedroto won the national championship,^[4]^[1] scoring a career-best six goals the following campaign, with the league being narrowly lost to Sporting CP^[5] as the Taça de Portugal to Benfica.

After 1986, Frasco began suffering from successive minor injuries which diminished his importance in the squad. He still appeared in seven games in Porto's victorious campaign in the European Cup, including 25 minutes of the final against FC Bayern Munich (2–1), eventually leaving in June 1989 at the age of 34.^[6]^[1]

Frasco then worked as a manager, coaching several teams in no higher than the Segunda Liga. He returned to his main club Porto in 2006 and worked with several of its youth sides, always as assistant.^[1]

International career

On 17 October 1979, Frasco made his debut for Portugal, in a 2–0 loss to Belgium in Brussels for the UEFA Euro 1980 qualifiers. He was one of the most influential players in the Euro 1984 campaign, taking part in all the matches as they reached the semi-finals^[7]^[1] and assisting Nené for the only goal against Romania in the group stage.^[8]

Over eight years, Frasco played 23 times and scored once.^[9]

**António Frasco: International goals**
No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	4 February 1987	Estádio Primeiro de Maio, Braga, Portugal	Belgium	1–0	1–0	Friendly^[10]

Honours

Porto

Notes

DIAS, Rui, Record – 100 Melhores do Futebol Português – Volume I (Record – The 100 best of Portuguese Football, 2002, EDISPORT

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Tavares da Silva, Hugo (13 June 2020). "Frasco: "Depois da final com a Juventus, ia para o controlo antidoping, enganei-me e entrei no balneário deles: recebi uma ovação"" [Frasco: "After the final with Juventus, I was on my way to the doping control, I made a mistake and entered their dressing room: I got an ovation"]. Expresso (in Portuguese). Retrieved 13 December 2023.
^ "Época 1973/74: Primeira Divisão" [1973/74 season: First Division] (in Portuguese). Arquivos da Bola. 19 April 2007. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
^ "Época 1976/77: Primeira Divisão" [1976/77 season: First Division] (in Portuguese). Arquivos da Bola. 28 March 2007. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
^ "Época 1978/79: Primeira Divisão" [1978/79 season: First Division] (in Portuguese). Arquivos da Bola. 15 March 2007. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
^ "Época 1979/80: Primeira Divisão" [1979/80 season: First Division] (in Portuguese). Arquivos da Bola. 8 March 2007. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
^ Cunha, Pedro Jorge (28 April 2014). "1988/89: FC Porto sem troféus e dez campeões europeus a chorar" [1988/89: FC Porto without trophies and ten European champions crying] (in Portuguese). Mais Futebol. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
^ "Platini faz a diferença em meia-final de sonho" [Platini makes the difference in dream semi-final] (in Portuguese). UEFA. 4 October 2003. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
^ "Nené leva Portugal às meias-finais" [Nené takes Portugal to the semi-finals] (in Portuguese). UEFA. 4 October 2003. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
^ "Lista completa dos internacionais portugueses" [Complete list of Portuguese internationals] (in Portuguese). Mais Futebol. 18 February 2004. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
^ Grau, Rafael; Martins, Iúri (27 June 2021). "Portugal – Bélgica: primeiro jogo "a sério" em fases finais de provas internacionais" [Portugal – Belgium: first "real" game in finals of international events]. Correio da Manhã (in Portuguese). Retrieved 13 December 2023.