João Baptista Martins
Midfielder, Football player
1927 – 1993
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Who was João Baptista Martins?
João Baptista Martins was a Portuguese footballer who played for CUF Barreiro and Sporting CP.
In 1955, he scored the first goal in the history of the European Cup. It was in 4 September, the first day of the first edition of the tournament. Sporting played FK Partizan, from Yugoslavia, at the Estádio Nacional in Lisbon. Martins scored the opener at 14'. The game would end in a 3-3 draw.
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- Born
- Sep 3, 1927
Sines - Nationality
- Portugal
- Lived in
- Sines
- Died
- Nov 18, 1993
Portugal
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on July 23, 2013
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