Career
During his professional career, he represented Porto for 15 seasons. Born in Porto, Magalhães was 14 when he joined local Football Club Porto"s youth system. He made his senior debut four years later, as the northerners were coached by Austrian Hermann Stessl.
Under Bobby Robson he became a fringe player, and left Porto in the 1995 summer, having appeared in well more than 300 official matches.
A move to another side in the north, Leça Football Club, was then arranged, but he retired at the end of the season after the modest team maintained its top flight status, but with the player contributing very rarely. Magalhães was chosen by Portuguese sports newspaper Record as one of the best 100 Portuguese football players ever.
He was overlooked for the squad that appeared at Union of European Football Associations Euro 1984, but represented the nation at the 1986 World Cup, gaining a total of 20 caps (no goals).