Fernando Mamede Mendes (15 July 1937 – 31 March 2016) was a Portuguese football midfielder and manager.
During his professional career, which lasted 13 seasons, he played almost exclusively for Sporting CP, also starting and finishing his football development at the Lisbon side.
[1] On 25 April 1965, he broke his leg in the early minutes of the away fixture against Czechoslovakia for the 1966 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, as the national team eventually won 1–0 thanks to Eusébio with ten players (no substitutions were allowed then).
In 24 Primeira Liga games over three separate seasons, he served as interim manager at his main club (the last in late 2000–early 2001), winning nine, drawing nine and losing six; with the Lions, he also worked as an assistant coach and extensively with the youth teams.
[3] Mendes died on 31 March 2016 at the Hospital Pulido Valente in Lisbon, after a long illness.