Hernâni Neves
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Hernâni Madruga Neves | ||
| Date of birth | 2 November 1963 | ||
| Place of birth | Mourão, Portugal | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1980–1981 | Juventude Setúbal | ||
| 1981–1982 | Vitória Setúbal | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1982–1988 | Vitória Setúbal | 38 | (1) |
| 1985–1986 | → Farense (loan) | ||
| 1988–1994 | Benfica | 33 | (1) |
| 1994–1996 | Vitória Setúbal | 14 | (0) |
| 1996–1997 | Desportivo Beja | 12 | (1) |
| Total | 97 | (3) | |
| International career | |||
| 1987–1990 | Portugal | 2 | (0) |
| 1998–2008 | Portugal (beach soccer) | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Hernâni Madruga Neves (born 2 November 1963), known simply as Hernâni, is a retired Portuguese football and beach soccer player. In the former, he played as a defensive midfielder.
He amassed Primeira Liga totals of 84 games and two goals over the course of ten seasons, representing in the competition Vitória de Setúbal and Benfica.
Football career
[edit]Hernâni was born in Mourão, Évora District, and began his professional career with Vitória de Setúbal. In a career greatly hampered by injuries he only played one solid season as a professional, 1987–88, appearing in 23 out of 38 matches to help the club finish in eighth position and attracting the attention of Primeira Liga and European Cup runner-up S.L. Benfica, which signed him in the subsequent off-season.
On 4 December 1988, Hernâni scored a rare goal, netting for Benfica in a 2–0 home win against former side Setúbal. A fortnight later, after a 2–0 home success against Lisbon neighbours Sporting Clube de Portugal, he tested positive for cocaine,[1] and received a three-month ban.[2][3] He was a first-team regular in the latter part of the 1989–90 campaign, and played the whole of the 1990 European Cup final, lost 1–0 to AC Milan;[4] he remained with the club for a further four years, but made only six appearances combined.
After a return to Setúbal, where he played 14 games in two seasons, and a spell in the Segunda Liga with C.D. Beja where he reunited with former Vitória teammate Adelino Nunes, Hernâni retired from the game in June 1997 at age 33.[5] He also earned two caps for Portugal, his debut coming on 5 December 1987 in a 0–3 defeat to Italy in the UEFA Euro 1988 qualifiers.[6]
Beach soccer
[edit]One year after retiring, Hernâni started appearing for the Portugal beach soccer team, being one of their leading figures for one full decade and winning a total of 14 titles, as well as many other top-three finishes.[7][8][9][10]
From 2006 to 2009, he also played at club level, with Italian side Cavalieri del Mare di Viareggio.[11]
Football statistics
[edit]| Club performance | League | Cup | League Cup | Continental | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Club | League | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Portugal | League | Taça de Portugal | Taça da Liga | Europe | Total | |||||||
| 1982–83 | Setúbal | 2 | 0 | |||||||||
| 1983–84 | 8 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 1984–85 | 5 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 1985–86 | Farense | |||||||||||
| 1986–87 | Setúbal | |||||||||||
| 1987–88 | 23 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 1988–89 | Benfica | 13 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | |||||
| 1989–90 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||||||
| 1990–91 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| 1991–92 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| 1992–93 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| 1993–94 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||||
| 1994–95 | Setúbal | 13 | 0 | |||||||||
| 1995–96 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 1996–97 | Beja | 12 | 1 | |||||||||
| Total | Portugal | 97 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 1 | |||||
| Country | 97 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 1 | ||||||
Honours
[edit]Football
[edit]- Primeira Liga: 1988–89, 1990–91, 1993–94
- Taça de Portugal: 1992–93; Runner-up 1988–89
- Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira: Runner-up 1993
- European Cup: Runner-up 1989–90
Beach soccer
[edit]Club
[edit]- Italian Supercup: 2008
Country
[edit]- Mundialito: 2003, 2008; Runner-up 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007
- FIFA World Cup: 2001; Runner-up 1999, 2002, 2005; Third-place 2003, 2004, 2008
- Euro League: 2002, 2007, 2008; Runner-up 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006; Third-place 1999, 2003
- Euro League Portuguese Event: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
- Euro League French Event: 2004, 2005
- Euro League Spanish Event: 2005; Runner-up 2006; Third-place 2007
- Euro League Italian Event: Runner-up 2005, 2007; Third-place 2006
- Copa Latina: 2000; Runner-up 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003; Third-place 2005
- Pro Tour: Runner-up 2001
Individual
[edit]- FIFA World Cup: MVP 2001
- Mundialito: MVP 2004
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Hernani, del Benfica, positivo de cocaína en un control 'antidoping'" [Benfica's Hernani, positive for cocaine in anti-doping test]. El País (in Spanish). 15 January 1989. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
- ^ "Benfica: el águila vuelve a volar" [Benfica: the eagle flies again]. Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). 25 May 1989. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
- ^ "En Portugal solo hablan de escándalos" [Nothing but scandals in Portugal]. Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). 17 June 1989. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
- ^ "Champions' Cup 1989–90". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 25 March 2014.
- ^ "97. – C.D. Beja, 1996–97" (in Portuguese). Equipas do Passado. 14 August 2007. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
- ^ "Hernâni" (in Portuguese). Portuguese Football Federation. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
- ^ "Hernâni: um grande capitão" [Hernâni: a great captain] (in Portuguese). Beach Soccer Restelo. 19 November 2010. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
- ^ "Futebol Praia: Portugal joga com Argentina" [Beach Soccer: Portugal plays with Argentina]. Record (in Portuguese). 13 February 2000. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
- ^ "Hernâni: "Cartilagens de tubarão ajudam-me imenso"" [Hernâni: "Shark gristle really helps me"]. Record (in Portuguese). 12 July 2001. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
- ^ "Portugal vence Inglaterra na praia" [Portugal beat England at the beach]. Record (in Portuguese). 14 May 2008. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
- ^ "Cavalieri, falsa partenza" [Cavalieri, false start]. Il Tirreno (in Italian). 23 June 2009. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
- ^ "Hernâni". ForaDeJogo. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
- ^ "Neves Hernani". Footballdatabase. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
External links
[edit]- Hernâni Neves at ForaDeJogo (archived)
- Hernâni Neves at National-Football-Teams.com
- 1963 births
- Living people
- Portuguese men's footballers
- Men's association football midfielders
- Primeira Liga players
- Liga Portugal 2 players
- Vitória F.C. players
- S.C. Farense players
- S.L. Benfica footballers
- C.D. Beja players
- Portugal men's international footballers
- Portuguese sportspeople in doping cases
- Doping cases in association football
- Portuguese beach soccer players
- Sportspeople from Évora District
- 20th-century Portuguese sportsmen