Alfredo Valadas
Footballer (1912-1994)
Alfredo Valadas Mendes (16 February 1912 – 1994) was a Portuguese footballer who played as outside forward.
Over the course of 10 seasons, he amassed Primeira Liga totals of 136 games and eighty six goals, all at Benfica, winning nine major titles.
Club career
Born in Minas de S. Domingos, Beja; Valadas started his career at Luso Sport Clube, a delegation of Sporting CP at only age 15.
With 19 years-old, he moved to Lisbon to play for Sporting, with the promise that they help him find a job, which they never did. After two seasons, he moved back to Beja, spent a year without competing and then joined Sport Lisboa e Beja in the regional league.
In 1934, he returned to Lisbon and joined Benfica, again with the promise to help him find a job, which they did, when he became a civil servant in 1937. He made his debut on 14 October 1934, in a home win against his former team, Sporting, and helped the club conquer the Campeonato de Portugal, again defeating previous team on 30 June 1935. He was also the club's first goalscorer in the Primeira Liga, after opening the score in a 3-1 win over Vitória de Setúbal on 20 January 1935 and finished the season with 23 goals in all competitions, a club best. In the following three seasons, he played alongside Vítor Silva, Espírito Santo and Domingos Lopes, as Benfica conquered a three-peat, winning the league in 1935–36, 1936–37, 1937–38, with Valadas being club topscorer in the first of those.
On 31 January 1937, he scored the club 100th goal in the Primeira Liga.
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