Mascarenhas mourned by Sporting and Portugal
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
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Sporting CP have paid tribute to Mascarenhas, a forward whose six goals in one 1963 game remains a UEFA club competition record, who has died aged 78.
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Mascarenhas, whose six goals for Sporting CP against APOEL in the 1963/64 European Cup Winners' Cup is a record for a UEFA club competition game, died on Tuesday aged 78.
Born in Angola on 28 April 1937, Domingos António da Silva travelled to Portugal at the start of 1958/59 to play for Benfica. He left after just one season, moving to Barreirense. Three years later he was back in Lisbon with Sporting CP, and registered 21 goals in 19 matches in his first term in the capital, including an effort in the Lions' Portuguese Cup final victory against Guimarães.
That win granted Sporting CP entry to the 1963/64 Cup Winners' Cup, which they won largely thanks to the scoring exploits of Mascarenhas, who found the net 11 times. He broke the deadlock in the Brussels decider, a 3-3 draw against MTK Budapest. Sporting CP won the replay, played two days later in Antwerp, 1-0. It remains their sole continental trophy.
Over half of his goals had come in one game, a 16-1 first round first-leg win against APOEL. He once said: "That day I scored in every way possible: with my right foot, my left foot and with my head – I might even have got one with my belly! It was undoubtedly my night." He ended with six goals.
Mascarenhas left Sporting CP in 1965 with 80 goals in 107 games for the club to his name. He returned to Barreirense and went on to represent GD CUF, Peniche and Riopele before retiring.
In a statement on their website, Sporting CP, for whom Mascarenhas later worked, said: "A good man has gone. He was known by everyone as an affable man, a friend of his friends. A Sporting supporter, he had a profound knowledge of the club's history, a history he himself helped build."
