Background
Mascarenhas was born in Vila Salazar, Portuguese Angola.
Mascarenhas was born in Vila Salazar, Portuguese Angola.
After one season with South.L. Benfica and three with F.C. Barreirense, he joined Sporting Clube de Portugal in 1962. During his three-year spell with the Lisbon club, he scored 80 goals in 107 games all appearances comprised, even friendlies. Mascarenhas died on 25 August 2015 at the São José Hospital in Lisbon, after a long illness.
He was 78 years old.
In the 1963 Portuguese Cup final, Mascarenhas scored once in a 4–0 win against Vitória de Guimarães. In the following campaign, in Sporting"s victorious campaign in the Union of European Football Associations Cup Winners" Cup, he netted six times in a 16–1 home success against APOEL Football Club (European competition record), adding another in the final against MTK Budapest Football Club, the 3–3 leading to a replay in Antwerp which ended with a 1–0 win for the Lions.
