Today the Blog is in Honor of my second cousin removed Jose Torres. His father was brother to my father's father, my grandfather Sidonio Da Guia Senica.
Torres was a major personality in Portuguese Soccer and we will all miss him in Portugal, the country is mourning his passing, so am I and my family.
Below is a text I got from the internet, in english, summing up Jose Torre's Bio.
LISBON: Portuguese football is in mourning for Jose Torres, star centre-forward in the mid-1960s of both Benfica and the national team who finished a best-ever third at the 1966 World Cup finals in England.
Torres. who has died at 71, succeeded veteran captain Jose Aguas at the centre of the Benfica attack and, with his height and strength, provided an ideal foil for the power of top-scoring team-mate Eusebio. He scored 14 goals in 34 internationals and won nine league titles and six domestic cups with Benfica.
Born on 8 September 1938 in Torres Novas, Torres joined Benfica at 20 and was three times a European Champions Cup runner-up with them, in in 1963 against Milan, in 1965 against Internazionale and in 1968 against Manchester United at Wembley. He retired in 1980, aged 42, having scored 217 goals in 384 games in club football with Benfica, Vitória Setubal and Estoril-Praia.
He later coached Vitória and Boavista and guided Portugal at the 1986 World Cup finals in Mexico. Despite beating England 1-0 in their opening game, Portugal were eliminated at the group stage.
Torres had been suffering from Alzheimer's.
From: http://www.sportsfeatures.com/soccernews/story/47376/jose-torres-the-perfect-foil-for-eusebio-with-both-benfica-and-portugal
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