Career
As a junior player, he started at the junior team of Football Club. As professional player, he played for Académica de Coimbra and, before ending his career in Belenenses, in the 1977-1978 season, due to a serious injury. During his player days in Coimbra, Jorge was a student at the Faculty of Literature of the University of Coimbra, graduating in Germanic Philology from the University of Lisbon in 1975, after his transfer to South.L.
He underwent knee surgery five times during his career, this is attributed as one of the causes of his declining abilities at the end of the career. His career would ultimately come to an end as the result of a training ground accident at the Estádio Nacional, where he broke his legal
Despite having been one of the top scorers at during his time there, the concurrence of other great forwards, such as Eusébio, Rui Jordão, and Nené, explain why he had only 16 caps for the Portuguese national team, earning two caps at Académica de Coimbra, 13 at, and one while playing for Belenenses, scoring only one goal during his international career.
His debut, on 27 March 1967, was a 1–1 draw with Italy, in a friendly match, in Rome. After his player career, he went to Leipzig, East Germany to study football and training methodology. Jorge is known since then as Rei Artur (King Artur).
He moved to Racing Paris the next season, and returned to in 1989-1990.
He moved to in 1994-1995, finishing third with his team, and was replaced at the beginning of the following season. Since then, he has been coach of several other clubs – Académica de Coimbra, Vitesse, Tenerife,, and the Portuguese national team, first, still as coach, for 1989-1990 and 1990-1991, later for the 1996-1997 seasons, Switzerland, and since 2004, Cameroon.
He failed to lead his team to the 2006 World Cup. He managed Saudi club First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Nasr for only two cup matches and was sacked following a 4–1 defeat by lowly club First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Faisaly.
Jorge managed French second division team Créteil in 2006-2007.
On 27 November 2014, he joined Algerian club Military Cross Alger, and ended a seven-year period without coaching. Player = Club = Individual Manager.