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Os Magriços was the nickname of the Portugal national football team which finished third at the 1966 FIFA World Cup in England. The team were based on the Benfica team that won two consecutive European Cups in 1961 and 1962, which included Mário Coluna, Eusébio, José Augusto, José Augusto Torres and António Simões. They were selected by Manuel da Luz Afonso and coached by Otto Glória. The nickname is derived from a 15th-century Portuguese chivalric legend - The Twelve of England (Portuguese: Os Doze de Inglaterra). It was made famous by the poet Luís de Camões in his 1572 Os Lusíadas. It tells the story of twelve Portuguese knights who travelled to England at the request of twelve English women to avenge their insult by a group of English knights. One of these Portuguese knights, Álvaro Gonçalves Coutinho, was nicknamed O Magriço.

Team

Head coach: Otto Glória

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1	1GK	Américo	(1933-03-06)6 March 1933 (aged 33)	Porto
2	1GK	Joaquim Carvalho	(1937-04-18)18 April 1937 (aged 29)	Sporting CP
3	1GK	José Pereira	(1931-09-15)15 September 1931 (aged 34)	Belenenses
4	2DF	Vicente	(1935-09-24)24 September 1935 (aged 30)	Belenenses
5	2DF	Germano	(1933-01-18)18 January 1933 (aged 33)	Benfica
6	3MF	Fernando Peres	(1942-01-08)8 January 1942 (aged 24)	Sporting CP
7	4FW	Ernesto Figueiredo	(1937-07-06)6 July 1937 (aged 29)	Sporting CP
8	4FW	João Lourenço	(1942-04-08)8 April 1942 (aged 24)	Sporting CP
9	3MF	Hilário	(1939-03-19)19 March 1939 (aged 27)	Sporting CP
10	3MF	Mário Coluna (captain)	(1935-08-06)6 August 1935 (aged 30)	Benfica
11	3MF	António Simões	(1943-12-14)14 December 1943 (aged 22)	Benfica
12	3MF	José Augusto	(1937-04-13)13 April 1937 (aged 29)	Benfica
13	4FW	Eusébio	(1942-01-25)25 January 1942 (aged 24)	Benfica
14	3MF	Fernando Cruz	(1940-08-12)12 August 1940 (aged 25)	Benfica
15	4FW	Manuel Duarte	(1943-05-20)20 May 1943 (aged 23)	Leixões
16	3MF	Jaime Graça	(1942-01-10)10 January 1942 (aged 24)	Vitória Setúbal
17	2DF	João Morais	(1935-03-06)6 March 1935 (aged 31)	Sporting CP
18	4FW	José Torres	(1938-09-08)8 September 1938 (aged 27)	Benfica
19	3MF	Custódio Pinto	(1942-02-09)9 February 1942 (aged 24)	Porto
20	2DF	Alexandre Baptista	(1941-02-17)17 February 1941 (aged 25)	Sporting CP
21	2DF	José Carlos	(1941-09-22)22 September 1941 (aged 24)	Sporting CP
22	2DF	Alberto Festa	(1939-07-21)21 July 1939 (aged 26)	Porto

References

1. "Nota 17 para a estreia de Portugal em 1966 - Brasil 2014 - Mundial - Futebol - SAPO Desporto". Desporto.sapo.pt. Retrieved 2016-07-17.
2. "Eusébio nunca será suplente na equipa dos melhores de sempre - PÚBLICO". Publico.pt. 2014-01-05. Retrieved 2016-07-17.
3. "1966 – O Mundial de Eusébio que fez vender TV | DN 150 Anos". 150anos.dn.pt. Retrieved 2016-07-17.

v t e Portugal squad – 1966 FIFA World Cup third place
1 Américo 2 Carvalho 3 J. Pereira 4 Vicente 5 Germano 6 Peres 7 Figueiredo 8 Lourenço 9 Hilário 10 Coluna (c) 11 Simões 12 J. Augusto 13 Eusébio 14 Cruz 15 Duarte 16 Graça 17 Morais 18 Torres 19 C. Pinto 20 A. Baptista 21 J. Carlos 22 Festa Coach: Glória

• Nicknamed groups of association football players
• Portugal at the 1966 FIFA World Cup
• 1960–61 in Portuguese football
• 1961–62 in Portuguese football
• 1962–63 in Portuguese football
• 1963–64 in Portuguese football
• 1964–65 in Portuguese football
• Portuguese words and phrases