António ARAÚJO | 1946-1947 | PES Stats Database (Golden Era Backup)

ARAÚJO PES STATS | 1946-1947

da_ni Name: António ARAÚJO António ARAÚJO | 1946-1947 Club: FC Porto Number: Position: *SS, CF Nationality: Portuguese Era/Age: 1946/47, 23 years old (28/09/23). Foot: R Side: B Height: - Weight: - Attack: 88 Defence: 41 Balance: 79 Stamina: 82 Top Speed: 84 Acceleration: 86 Response: 92 Agility: 87 Dribble Accuracy: 88 Dribble Speed: 83 Short Pass Accuracy: 83 Short Pass Speed: 79 Long Pass Accuracy: 82 Long Pass Speed: 78 Shot Accuracy: 95 Shot Power: 82 Shot Technique: 88 Free Kick Accuracy: 74 Swerve: 80 Header: 76 Jump: 79 Technique: 87 Aggression: 86 Mentality: 76 Keeper Skills: 50 Team Work: 87 Injury Tolerance: C Condition/Fitness: 6 Weak Foot Accuracy: 5 Weak Foot Frequency: 5 Consistency: 7 SPECIAL ABILITIES: * DRIBBLING * TACTICAL DRIBBLE * PASSING * 1-1 SCORE * CENTRE * 1-TOUCH PASS António Araújo, arriving to FC Porto with only 19 years, quickly became special. His career was short, abruptly cut by a disease of the throat that it would affect the kidneys and leave him unable to football. It was short, yet glorious. The intuition for the goal made him famous. Considered one of the most efficient shoters (rematadores) in the history of FC Porto and the national team. Pinga was his idol, and Araújo still got to play by his side in the advanced line of FC Porto. Like Pinga, Araújo had a short dribble, certainty in his passing and an truly unusual ability to exploit the opportunities for goal. In the city of Porto is known, ironically, as Sport Lisboa e Araújo, because he was usually the only portista (FC Porto player) to impose himself in National Team, composed mostly of players of Benfica, Sporting and Belenenses. Araujo was one of the major responsible for the fact that so-called ''Five Violins'' have been unable to be it in the team for all of us' the same they were in Sporting, With Vasques being relegated to the reserve. The season of 1946-47 was the most brilliant in the career of Araújo. Despite the poor 5th place of FC Porto in the National Championship, Araújo scored 36 goals in 25 games and won the Silver Ball ''for best scorer of the competition. Between April 1946 and November 1947, Araújo completed eight games in the National Team, something great for the time when the international meetings were scarce. His debut was made against France, a victory by 2-1 in the National Stadium, scoring a goal. Then in the famous Portugal-Spain (4-2) that secured the first officially victory recognized on the Spanish, he scored two goals, with Travaços scoring the other two. In 1947, at the peak of its capabilities, Araújo would’t guess that it was goodbye to football around the corner. On May 6 of 1948, FC Porto won by 3-2 in the Stadium of Lima, the Arsenal of London, champion of England and considered by far the best team in Europe, for many the best football team at international level. Days before, the May 3, Arsenal had won for 4-0 Benfica in Lisbon. It’s said that Benfica players said to the elements of the Arsenal that if here they won by 4-0, in Porto they’ll win with greater advantage. The FC Porto has only one major player, Araújo. Right, but after only 30 minutes in the first half, FC Porto already was winning by 3-0. When Araujo scored the 1st goal at nine minutes, Quádrio Raposo, speaker of the Emissora Nacional (National Issuing), announced: «Araújo has no less than three English players around him!!» He had, but the powerful Correia Dias scored the other two goals after passes from Araújo. Araújo, the best player on the field, had impressed the British. In the middle of the season of 1948-49, in which he already had scored 12 goals in 18 games, the disease he suffered from threw it out of the lawns. The return, year and a half after, was painful. Scopelli wanted to take him to the Deportivo de la Corunna. There was no money tha could make him leave Portugal! Ill to play in Portugal, ill to play abroad, said Araujo. After losing strength and agility, still played in Tirsense and also in the Unão de Paredes. Then he devoted himself to his work in City of Paredes, his hometown. _________________ ''My heart only has one colour: Blue and White!! João D. Pinto Antonio ARAUJO | 1946-1947 | PES Stats Database (Golden Era Backup)