Eusébio the first world-class African-born players. Eusébio helped Portugal reach third place at the 1966 World Cup, being the top goalscorer of the tournament with nine goals (including four in one match against North Korea) and received the Bronze Ball award. He won the Ballon d'Or award for European footballer of the year in 1965 and was runner-up in 1962 and 1966. He played for Benfica for 15 out of his 22 years as a footballer, thus being mainly associated with the Portuguese club, and is the team's all-time top scorer with 473 goals in 440 competitive matches. There, he won
Fernando Santos (Portuguese footballer) 2018 World Cup qualifying campaign with nine wins in ten games. In the finals in Russia, the tournament ended in the round-of-16 after a 1–2 loss against Uruguay. Santos earned a degree in electrical and telecommunications engineering, awarded in 1977 by the Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa. As he was in charge when Porto won its fifth consecutive championship in 1999, he was nicknamed "Engenheiro do Penta" (Penta's engineer). Porto AEK Athens Portugal Individual Fernando Santos (Portuguese footballer) Fernando Manuel Fernandes da Costa Santos (born 10 October 1954) is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a defender, and