Saturday, December 29, 2007

The ace in Portugal's pack


Eusébio

To help mark UEFA's Jubilee, each national association was asked to nominate its most outstanding player of the past 50 years. In the latest of a series of articles looking at the Golden Player selected by the nations who have qualified for UEFA EURO 2008™, uefa.com remembers the career of Portugal's Eusébio da Silva Ferreira.

On 25 January 1942 in the Mafalala district of Lourenco Marques, the capital of Mozambique, a boy was born who would become one of the greatest footballers of all time with SL Benfica and Portugal.

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