Gaspar Pinto
Personal information
Full name Álvaro Gaspar Pinto
Date of birth (1912-02-27)27 February 1912
Place of birth Oeiras, Portugal
Date of death 27 April 1969(1969-04-27) (aged 57)
Position(s) Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1933–1934 Carcavelinhos
1934 Belenenses 1 (0)
1934–1946 Benfica 153 (4)
Total 154 (4)
International career
1934–1942 Portugal 7 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Álvaro Gaspar Pinto (27 February 1912 – 27 April 1969), known as Gaspar Pinto, was a Portuguese footballer who played as a defender.

Over the course of 11 seasons he amassed Primeira Liga totals of 154 games and four goals, spending the majority of his career at Benfica, winning nine major titles.[1]

Career

Born in Oeiras, Gaspar Pinto started in Carcavelinhos, where by the age of 21 he received his first call-up for the national team. After a short spell at Belenenses, he joined Benfica in 1934, making his debut on 3 February 1935, in a 1–2 loss against Porto, at the Estádio do Lima.[2][3]

Capable of operating either as full back or half back, for the first part of his career, he played as half back, alongside Álvaro Pina, Albino, Baptista and Francisco Ferreira, and then descending down to full back, where his matches against Peyroteo from Sporting and Pinga from Porto gave him greater notability. [4][2]

He made his last official match in a 2–3 loss against Atlético on 9 June 1946, at Estádio Nacional, after representing the club for over 300 games.[2] To celebrate his retirement, a farewell match against Olhanense was played on 9 September 1946.

International career

Gaspar Pinto gained 7 caps for Portugal and made his debut on 11 March 1934 in Madrid against Spain, in 9–0 defeat, in a qualification match for the 1934 World Cup. He made his last cap in a three-nil win against Switzerland on 1 January 1942.[5]

Honours

Benfica

References

General

  • Tovar, Rui Miguel (2012). Almanaque do Benfica. Portugal: Lua de Papel. ISBN 978-989-23-2087-8.

Specific

  1. ↑ "100 anos: Gaspar Pinto: OS LATERAIS-DIREITOS (II)" (in Portuguese). Record. 25 March 2003.
  2. 1 2 3 João Malheiro (July 2006). Memorial Benfica 100 Glórias [Benfica Memorial, 100 glories] (in Portuguese) (Third ed.). QuidNovi. p. 61. ISBN 978-972-8998-26-4.
  3. ↑ Tovar 2012, p. 710.
  4. ↑ Tovar 2012, p. 127-200.
  5. ↑ "Gaspar Pinto". eu-football.info. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  6. ↑ "Especial 'Tetra'" ['Tetra' special edition]. Mística (in Portuguese). No. 33. Portugal: Impresa Publishing. April–June 2017. ISSN 3846-0823.
  7. 1 2 3 "Bicampeões para a história" [Back-to-back champions for the ages]. Visão (in Portuguese). Portugal: Impresa Publishing. May 2015. p. 41. ISSN 0872-3540.
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