Silvino Louro

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Silvino Louro
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Silvino with Inter Milan in 2009
Personal information
Full name Silvino de Almeida Louro
Date of birth (1959-03-05) 5 March 1959 (age 65)
Place of birth Setúbal, Portugal
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
1965–1977 Vitória Setúbal
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1977–1982 Vitória Setúbal 64 (0)
1982–1984 Vitória Guimarães 47 (0)
1984–1994 Benfica 184 (0)
1985–1986Aves (loan) 34 (0)
1994–1995 Vitória Setúbal 32 (0)
1995–1997 Porto 13 (0)
1997–2000 Salgueiros 34 (0)
Total408(0)
International career
1979–1983 Portugal U21 8 (0)
1983–1997 Portugal 23 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Silvino de Almeida Louro (born 5 March 1959), known simply as Silvino in his playing days, is a Portuguese former footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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Having ended his professional career in his 40s – playing in 21 Primeira Liga seasons and totalling 408 appearances – he went on to have another extensive spell as a goalkeeper or first-team coach under José Mourinho.

Club career

Born in Setúbal, Silvino started his professional career with hometown's Vitória de Setúbal in 1977, moving to Vitória de Guimarães after five years at the club.

He was signed by Benfica for 1984–85, but did not appear once in that year's Primeira Liga, barred by Manuel Bento. After a loan to newly promoted Aves in the following campaign, Silvino returned, going on to have an interesting battle for first-choice status with Neno for several seasons and helping the team to win four league titles. [1]

He played in the European Cup finals in 1988 and 1990, [2] [3] having captained the side in the latter. Leaving Benfica in 1994 Silvino rejoined Vitória Setúbal, then moved to Porto for the 1995–96 season: despite not having to face Vítor Baía in his second year (after his departure to Barcelona) he appeared very rarely in his stint, and closed out his career at northern neighbours Salgueiros, retiring in June 2000 after three years.

Subsequently, Louro began a career as a goalkeeping coach, successively at Porto, Chelsea, Inter Milan, Real Madrid and Manchester United, always under countryman José Mourinho. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] Several of the goalkeepers he worked directly with (Baía, Petr Čech and Júlio César) went on to win the Best Goalkeeper award, given by UEFA. [12]

International career

Louro during his time with Chelsea Silvino Louro.JPG
Louro during his time with Chelsea

Silvino made his debut for Portugal as a Vitória Guimarães player, in a 0–0 draw with Hungary on 13 April 1983. He won a total of 23 caps in a career spanning 14 years, but was left out of the nation's UEFA Euro 1984 squad. [13] [14]

Silvino returned to the national team on 12 October 1988, and played a major part in their 1990 FIFA World Cup qualifying campaign. He lost the number one shirt in January 1991 to young Baía, as a result of having lost his Benfica job to Neno, and spent the vast remainder of his international career on the substitutes' bench.

However, after Porto's Baía suffered an injury, Silvino played the last two games of the 1998 World Cup qualifiers; his final appearance came in the 1–0 win over Northern Ireland on 11 October 1997 – aged 38 – as he equalised Vítor Damas' record as the oldest player to represent Portugal. [15]

From 2000 to 2002, prior to his Porto appointment, Louro was the goalkeeper coach for the national team. [16]

Honours

Benfica

Porto

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