Álvaro Gaspar Pinto

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)
Playing position Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1933–1934 Carcavelinhos
1934 Belenenses 1 (0)
1934–1946 Benfica 153 (4)
Total 154 (4)
National team
1934–1942 Portugal 7 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Álvaro Gaspar Pinto (27 February 1912 – 27 April 1969) 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.

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, in Estádio do Lima.[1]

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. [2][3]

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. 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.

Honours

Benfica[4]

References

General

Specific

  1. Tovar 2012, p. 710.
  2. Tovar 2012, p. 127-200.
  3. "Gaspar Pinto". serbenfiquista.com.
  4. "Bicampeões para a história" [Back-to-back champions to history]. Visão (in Portuguese). Portugal: Impresa Publishing: 41. May 2015. ISSN 0872-3540.


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