Eduardo Luís

Eduardo Luís Marques Kruss Gomes (born 6 December 1955), known as Eduardo Luís, is a Portuguese former football central defender and manager.

Club career Born in Loures, Lisbon District, Eduardo Luís started playing professionally with C.S. Marítimo after unsuccessfully emerging through S.L. Benfica's youth system. He re-signed with the latter for the 1975–76 season, but only appeared in three Primeira Liga games and subsequently returned to the Madeira club, helping it to promote from the Segunda Liga at the first attempt and proceeding to only miss a total of two league matches the following four top-flight campaigns.

In 1981, Marítimo were once again in the second division, and Eduardo Luís appeared in all the games for them en route to another promotion. In summer 1982 he joined FC Porto, being regularly used in two of his seven years with the northern side;

In 1989, aged 33, Eduardo Luís left Porto and signed for Rio Ave F.C. in the second tier. He returned to Portugal following a brief spell in the Canadian National Soccer League with Toronto First Portuguese, moving to division-three club A.D. Ovarense and earning promotion in his first year.

Eduardo Luís started managing one year after retiring. In the following seasons, he was in charge of more than ten teams in the second and third divisions, his biggest achievement being leading C.D. Aves to the fourth position of the former tier in 1995–96 (no promotion though). He was selected to the squad that appeared at UEFA Euro 1984, being an unused member for the eventual semi-finalists.