Artur Jorge (footballer, born 1946)

This article is about the football player and manager. For other people with similar names, see Artur Jorge.
In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Braga de Melo and the second or paternal family name is Teixeira.

Artur Jorge
Artur Jorge in 1972
Personal information
Full name Artur Jorge Braga de Melo Teixeira
Date of birth (1946-02-13)13 February 1946
Place of birth Porto, Portugal
Date of death 22 February 2024(2024-02-22) (aged 78)
Place of death Lisbon, Portugal
Position(s) Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1964–1965 Porto 4 (1)
1965–1969 Académica 96 (72)
1969–1975 Benfica 130 (105)
1975–1978 Belenenses 51 (14)
1977 → Rochester Lancers (loan) 7 (2)
Total 288 (194)
International career
1967–1977 Portugal 16 (1)
Managerial career
1980–1981 Vitória de Guimarães
1981 Belenenses
1981–1983 Portimonense
1984–1987 Porto
1987–1989 Racing Paris
1989–1991 Porto
1990–1991 Portugal
1991–1994 Paris Saint-Germain
1994–1995 Benfica
1995–1996 Switzerland
1996–1997 Portugal
1997–1998 Tenerife
1998 Vitesse
1998–1999 Paris Saint-Germain
2000–2001 Al-Nassr
2001–2002 Al-Hilal
2002–2003 Académica
2003–2004 CSKA Moscow
2004–2006 Cameroon
2006 Al-Nassr
2006–2007 Créteil
2014–2015 MC Alger
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Artur Jorge Braga de Melo Teixeira (13 February 1946 – 22 February 2024), commonly known as Artur Jorge, was a Portuguese football player and manager.

Club career

As a junior player, Artur Jorge started at the junior team of FC Porto. As professional player, he played for Académica de Coimbra and Benfica, before ending his career at Belenenses in the 1977–78 season, due to a serious injury suffered at a training session in the Estádio Nacional where he broke a leg. He also had a stint in the North American Soccer League with the Rochester Lancers.[1]

Managerial career

After his player career, Artur Jorge went to Leipzig, East Germany, to study football and training methodology. He started his managerial career working with Vitória de Guimarães,[2] moving on to Belenenses,[3] Portimonense and then signing with Porto for the 1984–85 season, where he won three national champion titles and two Taça de Portugal titles. His greatest success was to win the European Cup with Porto over favourites Bayern Munich 2–1. Jorge was known as "Rei Artur" ("King Arthur") from then on. He moved to Racing Paris the next season,[4] and returned to Porto in 1989–90. He then moved to Paris Saint-Germain in 1991–92, where he won the national championship in 1993–94.[5]

Artur Jorge moved to Benfica in 1994–95, finishing third with his team, and was replaced at the beginning of the following season. He went to become coach of several other clubs including Académica de Coimbra, Vitesse Arnhem, Tenerife and CSKA Moscow. He managed the Portugal national team, initially while still Porto coach during the 1989–90 and 1990–91 seasons, and again during the 1996–97 season. He also managed the Switzerland team at UEFA Euro 1996, replacing Roy Hodgson under whom they had qualified.[6][7] From 2004 he managed Cameroon.[8][9] He failed to lead his team to the 2006 FIFA World Cup. He managed Saudi club Al-Nasr for only two cup matches and was sacked following a 4–1 defeat by lowly club Al-Faisaly. He then managed French second division team Créteil in 2006–07.[10]

On 27 November 2014, Artur Jorge joined Algerian club MC Alger, ending a seven-year period without coaching.[11]

Death

Jorge died on 22 February 2024, at the age of 78.[12]

Managerial statistics

Managerial record by team and tenure
Team Nat From To Record
G W D L GF GA GD Win %
Vitória de Guimarães Portugal 1 June 1980 30 May 1981 31 11 9 11 39 32 +7 035.48
Belenenses Portugal 1 June 1981 30 September 1981 5 1 3 1 6 5 +1 020.00
Portimonense Portugal 30 September 1981 30 May 1983 65 28 16 21 81 54 +27 043.08
FC Porto Portugal 18 May 1984 30 May 1987 130 96 18 16 297 80 +217 073.85
Racing France 10 June 1987 30 May 1988 41 13 17 11 36 44 −8 031.71
FC Porto Portugal 12 November 1988 1 June 1991 125 91 21 13 255 71 +184 072.80
Portugal Portugal 1 June 1989 1 June 1990 7 2 2 3 6 10 −4 028.57
PSG France 10 June 1991 30 May 1994 144 78 44 22 215 96 +119 054.17
S.L. Benfica Portugal 1 July 1994 9 September 1995 54 28 15 11 92 45 +47 051.85
Switzerland Switzerland 13 March 1996 18 June 1996 7 1 2 4 5 8 −3 014.29
Portugal Portugal 1 August 1996 30 November 1997 12 5 5 2 12 6 +6 041.67
Vitesse Netherlands June 1998 October 1998 9 6 2 1 19 9 +10 066.67
PSG France October 1998 March 1999 23 6 9 8 21 22 −1 026.09
Al-Nassr Saudi Arabia 1 June 2000 1 June 2001 26 13 6 7 36 22 +14 050.00
Al-Hilal Saudi Arabia 1 June 2001 1 June 2002 24 15 7 2 57 21 +36 062.50
Académica de Coimbra Portugal 26 October 2002 28 August 2003 33 12 10 11 47 46 +1 036.36
CSKA Moscow Russia 23 November 2003 4 June 2004 16 8 7 1 27 14 +13 050.00
Cameroon Cameroon 10 January 2005 5 February 2006 11 8 3 0 19 6 +13 072.73
Al-Nassr Saudi Arabia 21 February 2006 4 March 2006 3 0 0 3 4 9 −5 000.00
Créteil France 30 May 2006 30 May 2007 41 10 13 18 36 56 −20 024.39
MC Alger Algeria 3 January 2014 8 October 2015 24 11 7 6 26 16 +10 045.83
Career total 830 443 216 171 1,329 667 +662 053.37

Honours

Player

Benfica

Manager

Porto

Paris Saint-Germain

Al Hilal

CSKA Moscow

References

  1. ^ "NASL Player Profile – Artur Jorge". Retrieved 14 September 2012.
  2. ^ "Blogger". vedetaoumarreta.blogspot.com. 2006.
  3. ^ "Lista de treinadores da equipa principal". Clube de Futebol Os Belenenses. Archived from the original on 26 May 2011.
  4. ^ "France – Trainers of First and Second Division Clubs". Archived from the original on 31 May 2008. Retrieved 17 June 2010.
  5. ^ "PSG". English.
  6. ^ White, Clive (8 June 1996). "Football: Swiss knives out for King Jorge". The Independent. London. Retrieved 25 April 2010.
  7. ^ "Jorge amiss with the Swiss". The Independent. 2 June 1996. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  8. ^ Etonge, Martin (10 January 2005). "Cameroon name new coach". BBC News. Retrieved 25 April 2010.
  9. ^ "RFI – Artur Jorge: dans la tanière des Lions indomptables". Radio France Internationale. Archived from the original on 15 December 2013. Retrieved 2 January 2010.
  10. ^ "Foot – L2 – Créteil – Artur Jorge : "Compliqué !"". L'Équipe. France. Archived from the original on 29 June 2007. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
  11. ^ "Artur Jorge appointed coach of Mouloudia Alger". BBC Sport. 27 November 2014. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
  12. ^ Morreu Artur Jorge, treinador campeão europeu pelo FC Porto (in Portuguese)
  13. ^ "Especial 'Tetra'" ['Tetra' special edition]. Mística (in Portuguese). No. 33. Portugal: Impresa Publishing. April–June 2017. p. 94. ISSN 3846-0823.