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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Sebastião Lucas da Fonseca[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 26 July 1927[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Lourenço Marques, Mozambique[1] | ||
| Date of death | 27 January 2000 (aged 72) | ||
| Place of death | British Columbia, Canada | ||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1951–1964 | Belenenses | 270 | (210) |
| 1964–1967 | Atlético | 21 | (9) |
| 1967–1968 | Gouveia | ||
| 1968–1969 | Amora | ||
| 1969–1970 | Chaves | ||
| 1970–1971 | First Portuguese | ||
| 1972–1974 | Sagres Victoria | ||
| International career | |||
| 1952–1960 | Portugal | 27 | (13) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Sebastião Lucas da Fonseca (26 July 1927 – 27 January 2000), known as Matateu (Portuguese pronunciation: [mɐtɐˈtew]), was a Portuguese footballer who played as a striker.
His professional career, which spanned more than 20 years, was closely associated to Belenenses. He won the Bola de Prata twice during his spell with the club, and scored 219 goals in 291 Primeira Liga games, being dubbed the World's Eighth Wonder.[2]
Matateu's was Belenenses most-capped ever player for the Portugal national team.
- ^ a b c Matateu at WorldFootball.net
- ^ Tovar, Rui Miguel (27 January 2010). "Matateu. Ele é que foi o D. Sebastião" [Matateu. The real D. Sebastião]. i (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 25 May 2012. Retrieved 15 December 2011.