Quarenta
{{short description|Brazilian footballer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Quarenta
| full_name = Luís Gonzaga Lebrêgo
| image =
| birth_date = {{birth date|1910|9|17|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Portuguese Cape Verde
| death_date = {{death date and age|1984|3|28|1910|9|17|df=yes}}
| height =
| position = Forward
| currentclub =
| youthyears1 = | youthclubs1 =
| years1 = 1927–1933 | clubs1 = Paysandu | caps1 = | goals1 =
| years2 = 1933 | clubs2 = Vasco da Gama | caps2 = | goals2 =
| years3 = 1934–1945 | clubs3 = Paysandu | caps3 = | goals3 =
| pcupdate = 31 January 2024
}}
Luís Gonzaga Lebrêgo (17 September 1910 – 28 March 1984), better known as Quarenta, was a Cape Verdean-born professional footballer who played as a forward.
Career
Born in Portuguese Cape Verde,{{cite web|url=https://memoria.bn.gov.br/DocReader/DocReader.aspx?bib=112518_02&pesq=walmir%20lebrego&pasta=ano%20195&hf=memoria.bn.gov.br&pagfis=27789 |title=RAIZ DE CABO VERDE: Botafogo Faz Justiça A Quarentinha: Hoje É Crack E Capitão |website=Jornal dos Sports |date = 15 August 1959|access-date=26 January 2025 |language=pt}}{{cite web|url=https://memoria.bn.gov.br/DocReader/DocReader.aspx?bib=004120&pesq=%22cabo%20verde%22%20quarentinha&pasta=ano%20195&hf=memoria.bn.gov.br&pagfis=8270 |title=Quarentinha - o filho de Barbadiano |website=Manchete |date = 18 September 1954|access-date=26 January 2025 |language=pt}} being regarded as a Portuguese citizen,{{cite web|url=https://memoria.bn.gov.br/DocReader/DocReader.aspx?bib=110523_06&pesq=%22cabo%20verde%22%20quarentinha&pasta=ano%20196&hf=memoria.bn.gov.br&pagfis=29363 |title=Sporting quer passe de Quarentinha para seleção de Portugal |website=O Jornal |date = 3 August 1963|access-date=26 January 2025 |language=pt}}{{cite web|url=https://memoria.bn.gov.br/DocReader/DocReader.aspx?bib=170054_01&pesq=%22cabo%20verde%22%20quarentinha&pasta=ano%20196&hf=memoria.bn.gov.br&pagfis=71589 |title=Sporting quer Quarentinha para a seleção de Portugal |website=Jornal do Commercio |date = 10 August 1963|access-date=26 January 2025 |language=pt}} and orphaned by his father and mother. Adopted by priests from the Dom Macedo Costa Asylum, he was taken to Brazil in an early age. He gained the nickname Quarenta (Forty) because that was his registration number at the orphanage.{{cite book|last=Da Costa |first=Ferreira |year=2013 |title=Quarenta - El Tigre, o terror dos goleiros |series=Gigantes do futebol paraense |place=Teresina |publisher=Halley S.A. Gráfica e Editora|language=pt}}
He began his career as a player at the age of 17 at Paysandu, and with the club he won state tournaments on ten occasions, in addition to scoring more than 200 goals for the club.{{cite web|url=https://www.futebol80.com.br/links/artilheiros/quarenta.htm |title=Quarenta |website=Futebol 80 |access-date=31 January 2024 |language=pt}} He had a brief spell at Vasco in 1933.{{cite web|url=https://www.supervasco.com/noticias/site-lista-jogadores-europeus-que-ja-passaram-pelo-vasco-372508.html |title=Site lista jogadores europeus que já passaram pelo Vasco |website=SuperVasco |date=13 August 2023 |access-date=31 January 2024 |language=pt}}
Personal life
Quarenta is father of the footballer Quarentinha.
Honours
;Paysandu
- Campeonato Paraense: 1928, 1929, 1931, 1932, 1934, 1939, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945
References
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Category:Men's association football forwards
Category:Cape Verdean men's footballers
Category:Cape Verdean expatriate men's footballers
Category:Portuguese men's footballers
Category:Paysandu Sport Club players
Category:CR Vasco da Gama players
Category:Portuguese emigrants to Brazil
Category:Naturalized citizens of Brazil