Beto Vidigal

Norberto Deolindo Vidigal (9 June 1964 – 19 December 2019) was an Angolan professional football midfielder and coach.

Beto Vidigal

Personal information
Full name	Norberto Deolindo Vidigal
Date of birth	(1964-06-09)9 June 1964
Place of birth	Huíla, Angola
Date of death	19 December 2019(2019-12-19) (aged 55)
Place of death	Arronches, Portugal
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
	O Elvas
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1983–1988	O Elvas	116	(6)
1988–1990	Louletano	51	(10)
1990–1993	União Leiria	71	(5)
1993–1994	O Elvas	28	(5)
1994–1995	Naval	11	(2)
1995–1996	Vila Real	19	(0)
1996–2003	O Elvas
Managerial career
2005–2009	O Elvas (assistant)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Football career

Vidigal was born Huíla, Portuguese Angola, and played for five clubs over a 20-year senior career. He started out at O Elvas CAD, achieving Primeira Liga promotion in 1986 and playing two seasons with the Alentejo side in that competition – their first and only.^[1]

After five years in the second division, with Louletano DC (two seasons)^[1] and U.D. Leiria (three), Vidigal returned to Elvas, with the team now in the third level. He then left for one-season stints with Associação Naval 1º de Maio and SC Vila Real also in that tier, then returned to his main club to close out his career, eventually representing it in all five major levels of Portuguese football; he retired at the age of 39.

During four years, Vidigal worked as assistant coach with O Elvas, with the club in the fourth division.^[2]

Personal life and death

Vidigal had eight brothers and four sisters, four of the former also being footballers: Luís, Lito, Toni and Jorge. The first represented Portugal internationally, whilst the second opted to appear for Angola;^[1][3][4] his son, André, was also involved in the sport professionally.^[5][6]

Vidigal died on 19 December 2019 in Arronches, aged 55.^[7]

References

1. Irmãos Vidigal ignoram os genes para manterem o Estrela da Amadora no topo (Brothers Vidigal ignore genes to leave Estrela on top); Público, 13 October 2008 (in Portuguese)
2. Equipa técnica de "O Elvas" completa ("O Elvas" technical staff complete); Portugal Centro, 20 July 2006 (in Portuguese)
3. One family, two nations: Brothers who have played for different international teams 18 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine; Daily Mirror, 22 June 2010
4. Luís Vidigal: "O Sporting é paixão, é acreditar" (Luís Vidigal: "Sporting is about passion, believing") 20 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine; Sporting CP, 26 December 2011 (in Portuguese)
5. "Sobrinho de Luís e Lito Vidigal comprado pelo Fortuna Sittard" [Nephew of Luís and Lito Vidigal bought by Fortuna Sittard] (in Portuguese). Rádio Renascença. 20 December 2017. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
6. (in Dutch). Jupiler League. Archived from the original on 3 January 2018. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
7. "Morreu Beto Vidigal, antigo jogador do Elvas" [Death of Beto Vidigal, former Elvas player] (in Portuguese). Correio da Manhã. 19 December 2019. Retrieved 8 January 2020.

External links

• at ForaDeJogo (archived)