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Artur Manuel Soares Correia (born 18 April 1950) is a retired Portuguese footballer who played as a right back. Nicknamed "Ruço", he amassed Primeira Liga totals of 234 games and four goals during 12 seasons, representing Académica, Benfica and Sporting, winning eight major titles with the second club including five national championships. He also spent two years in the United States, with the New England Tea Men. Correia was a Portuguese international for seven years, making his debut in 1972. ==Club career== Born in Lisbon, Correia grew up in the Santa Cruz neighbourhood of Benfica with four siblings, two brothers and two sisters. He first started at C.F. Benfica, before joining the under-19 team of S.L. Benfica in 1965, his boyhood club from which he had been a registered member since birth. In 1968, he moved to Coimbra to finish high-school and enrol into college, whilst at the same time competing for Associação Académica also in the Primeira Liga. He only appeared in one game in his first season, but eventually asserted himself as a starter, gathering interest from C.F. Os Belenenses, FC Porto and Sporting Clube de Portugal.〔 In 1971, Correia accepted a offer from Benfica, as Jimmy Hagan acted as the club's manager. He made his debut on 12 September in a 3–1 win over Porto at the Estádio das Antas, going on to help his team win the league with a ten-point advantage over second-placed Vitória de Setúbal and beat Porto and Sporting in the Taça de Portugal, as the campaign ended with a domestic double and a semi-final run in the European Cup. During his six-year spell with the Eagles, Correia won five league titles, one Portuguese Cup and two Taça de Honra trophies. In the summer of 1977, during negotiations for a new contract, Benfica management proposed him a pay cut, which he refused. Instead, Sporting president João Rocha offered him a better deal and Correia traded clubs, as he explained: "I never thought of playing in Sporting, but it was the club that offered me the best deal. Benfica, basically, sent me away." 〔 He played there for three years, winning the Portuguese Cup in 1977–78 and the league in 1979–80. In 1979, Correia joined the New England Tea Men from the North American Soccer League, playing there the first six months of the season and the final six at Sporting.〔 On 23 September 1980, he suffered a stroke that left him permanently incapable of playing professional football; he remained connected with the sport, managing G.D. Sesimbra and Centro Desportivo Universitário de Lisboa and working for Lisbon's city hall.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Artur Correia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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