Rogério Pipi

Rogério Pipi
Personal information
Full name Rogério Lantres de Carvalho
Date of birth (1922-12-07)7 December 1922
Place of birth Lisbon, Portugal
Date of death 8 December 2019(2019-12-08) (aged 97)
Position(s) Left winger/Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Chelas
1942–1947 Benfica 76 (57)
1947 Botafogo
1948–1952 Benfica 136 (68)
Oriental
International career
1945-1953 Portugal 15 (2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Rogério Lantres de Carvalho (7 December 1922 – 8 December 2019), known as Rogério Pipi, was a Portuguese footballer who played mainly as a forward.

Over the course of 14 seasons, he amassed Primeira Liga totals of 245 games and 132 goals, most notably at Benfica. He gained 15 caps for the Portugal national team, scoring 2 goals.

Club career

Born in Lisbon, Carvalho began his career at local club Chelas. In 1942, he signed with Benfica, where he played 12 seasons, excepting a period in 1947, when he played for Brazilian side Botafogo. He was one of the victims, so to speak, of Otto Glória's professionalism; he left Benfica in 1954 because he did not want to quit his job, and finished his career in another local club, Oriental.

With Benfica, he won three league titles, six Portuguese cups and one Latin Cup. In total, he played 310 matches and scored 210 goals for Benfica. Carvalho holds the record of best scorer in Portuguese cup finals, with 15 goals.

Honours

Club

Benfica[1]

Individual

Taça de Portugal: Top scorer 1950–51, 1951–52

References

  1. ^ "Bicampeões para a história" [Back-to-back champions for the ages]. Visão (in Portuguese). Portugal: Impresa Publishing. May 2015. p. 42. ISSN 0872-3540.