Vicente Lucas
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Vicente da Fonseca Lucas, known in the football world as Vicente (born Lourenço Marques
Maputo
Maputo, also known as Lourenço Marques, is the capital and largest city of Mozambique. It is known as the City of Acacias in reference to acacia trees commonly found along its avenues and the Pearl of the Indian Ocean. It was famous for the inscription "This is Portugal" on the walkway of its...

, Portuguese East Africa
Portuguese East Africa
Mozambique or Portuguese East Africa was the common name by which the Portuguese Empire's territorial expansion in East Africa was known across different periods of time...

, 24 September 1935) was a Mozambican-born Portuguese footballer, who played as a central-defender. He was the younger brother of Matateu
Matateu
Sebastião Lucas da Fonseca , known as Matateu was the first great Mozambican-born Portuguese footballer, before the arrival of Eusébio. Like him, he was a top scorer, both for Belenenses and the National Team...

, the first great Mozambican-Portuguese football player.

He played for Belenenses, like his brother, and had 20 caps for the Portuguese National Team
Portugal national football team
The Portugal national football team represents Portugal in association football and is controlled by the Portuguese Football Federation, the governing body for football in Portugal. Portugal's home ground is Estádio Nacional in Oeiras, and their head coach is Paulo Bento...

, since the 1–0 win over Scotland
Scotland
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, in 3 June 1959 to the 5–3 win over North Korea
North Korea
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, in 23 July 1966, in the World Cup finals
1966 FIFA World Cup
The 1966 FIFA World Cup, the eighth staging of the World Cup, was held in England from 11 July to 30 July. England beat West Germany 4–2 in the final, winning the World Cup for the first time, so becoming the first host to win the tournament since Italy in 1934.-Host selection:England was chosen as...

. He's remembered for his perfect markings of Pelé
Pelé
However, Pelé has always maintained that those are mistakes, that he was actually named Edson and that he was born on 23 October 1940.), best known by his nickname Pelé , is a retired Brazilian footballer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest football players of all time...

 in many games for Portugal and Belenenses without making any foul, although he has been unfairly accused of mercilessly chopping down the great player, a tackle that should be rightly attributed to another player, Morais
João Morais
João Pedro Morais was a Portuguese international footballer.-Club career:He played as a defender for Sporting Clube de Portugal, from 1958/59 to 1968/69, where he won several national championships as well as the Portuguese Cup...

.

He had to leave football the same year due to a serious injury.
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