Silvino Louro

In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Almeidaand the second or paternal family name is Louro.

Silvino Louro

Silvino with Inter Milan in 2009
Personal information
Full name	Silvino de Almeida Louro
Date of birth	(1959-03-05) 5 March 1959 (age 64)
Place of birth	Setúbal, Portugal
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Youth career
1965–1977	Vitória Setúbal
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1977–1982	Vitória Setúbal	64	(0)
1982–1984	Vitória Guimarães	47	(0)
1984–1994	Benfica	184	(0)
1985–1986	→ Aves (loan)	34	(0)
1994–1995	Vitória Setúbal	32	(0)
1995–1997	Porto	13	(0)
1997–2000	Salgueiros	34	(0)
Total		408	(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.

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 S.C. after five years at the club.

He was signed by S.L. 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 C.D. 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 FC Porto for the 1995–96 season: despite not having to face Vítor Baía in his second year (after his departure to FC Barcelona) he appeared very rarely in his stint, and closed out his career at northern neighbours S.C. 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 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.

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. ^[13]

From 2000 to 2002, prior to his Porto appointment, Louro was the goalkeeper coach for the national team. ^[14]

Honours

Benfica

• Primeira Liga: 1986–87, 1988–89, 1990–91, 1993–94 ^[15]
• Taça de Portugal: 1984–85, 1986–87, 1992–93
• Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira: 1989
• European Cup runner-up: 1987–88, 1989–90

Porto

• Primeira Liga: 1995–96, 1996–97
• Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira: 1996

References

1. Simões de Abreu, Alexandra (11 June 2021). "Neno (1962–2021): "Estava cheio de mulheres, porra, tinha de sair dali. É quando aparece o Julio Iglesias: 'El portero?' Pá, portero sou eu"" [Neno (1962–2021): "The place was crowded with women, bloody hell, I had to get out of there. That's when Julio Iglesias shows up: ‘El portero?’ Man, I'm the portero"]. Expresso (in Portuguese). Retrieved 12 June 2021.
2. Ross, James M. "European Competitions 1987–88". RSSSF . Retrieved 31 March 2017.
3. Ross, James M. "Champions' Cup 1989–90". RSSSF. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
4. "Dal comando ai soldi – Le cinque condizioni di Mourinho" [From command to wages – The five conditions of Mourinho]. La Repubblica (in Italian). 24 May 2009. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
5. "Julio Cesar si allena ma è pieno di lividi" [Julio Cesar trains but is full of bruises]. La Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian). 23 February 2010. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
6. "El delegado de campo acaba en el suelo tras una disputa" [Field delegate ends on the floor after quarrel]. Diario AS (in Spanish). 19 December 2010. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
7. "Silvino Louro: «Mourinho no se irá, tenemos contrato hasta junio de 2016»" [Silvino Louro: "Mourinho will not go, we have a contract until June 2016"]. ABC (in Spanish). 24 December 2012. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
8. Wilson, Jeremy (3 June 2013). "Jose Mourinho allowed to recruit three key lieutenants to his Chelsea backroom staff". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 5 July 2016.
9. Farmery, Tom (2 March 2015). "Jose Mourinho reveals one of his coaches blew plans to keep Manchester City result a secret". The Independent . Retrieved 5 July 2016.
10. Candeias, Pedro (6 January 2016). "Zidane é Cruijff ou Maradona?" [Is Zidane Cruijff or Maradona?]. Expresso (in Portuguese). Retrieved 17 April 2020.
11. "Jose Mourinho arrives at Carrington to start work as Manchester United manager". Eurosport. 4 July 2016. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
12. Garin, Erik; Silva, Rui. "UEFA Awards". RSSSF. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
13. "Recorde para Ricardo Carvalho" [Record for Ricardo Carvalho]. Record (in Portuguese). 30 May 2016. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
14. "Silvino e José Augusto completam equipa técnica da selecção" [Silvino and José Augusto complete national team coaching staff]. Record (in Portuguese). 18 February 2000. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
15. "Especial 'Tetra'" ['Tetra' special edition]. Mística (in Portuguese). No. 33. Portugal: Impresa. April–June 2017. p. 94. ISSN   3846-0823.

External links

• Silvino at ForaDeJogo (archived)
• Silvino national team profile at the Portuguese Football Federation (in Portuguese)
• Silvino at National-Football-Teams.com
• Silvino – FIFA competition record (archived)
• Silvino at EU-Football.info