Académica de Coimbra
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| Surname | Associação Académica de Coimbra - Organismo Autónomo de Futebol |
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| Seat | Coimbra , Portugal | ||
| founding | 1876 | ||
| Colours | black-and-white | ||
| president |
 Eduardo Simoes
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| Website | academica-oaf.pt | ||
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| Head coach |
Sérgio Conceição
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| Venue | Estádio Cidade de Coimbra | ||
| Places | 29,622 | ||
| league | Segunda League | ||
| 2019/20 | 7th place | ||
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Académica de Coimbra is a sports club whose team plays in the second Portuguese football league . It is the oldest still existing sports club in Portugal. The team is also referred to as A Briosa , which can be translated as "The dashing" or "The proud". The association is best known in Portugal for its history, especially for its student traditions, and its role in the resistance against the Estado Novo regime (1932–1974) in Portugal .
history
The sports club was founded on November 3, 1887 by students from the University of Coimbra under the name Associação Académica Coimbra (AAC), under the umbrella of the academic student organization of the same name in Coimbra . This was founded in 1876 as a merger of the Clube Atlético de Coimbra from 1861 and the Academia Dramática, founded in 1837 . Since then, the association has been deeply rooted in the city's longstanding student traditions, including a. the Republicas , Coimbra's self-governing student residences. The AAC football division was founded in 1911.
In 1962, students in Coimbra went on strike and protests erupted as the regime repressed increasing demands for educational reform and democratic administration and was unwilling to talk. With its colored captain, who later became national coach Mário Wilson , the popular Académica football team became one of the pillars of the protest. Their games were one of the few opportunities for the opposing students to make public appearances. The Académicas football team, which competed in the first division, was always composed of students from Coimbra and had no professional footballers in their ranks, unlike the rest of the league. In return, they were offered one of the few opportunities to study for destitute students in what was then Portugal.
When Académica reached the final of the National Cup against Benfica Lisbon in 1969 , the many students who had traveled with them showed banners with political demands in the Estádio Nacional , making the game the largest protest demonstration against the regime in its history. The diverse student protests in Portugal known as the Crise Académica had come to a head, especially in Coimbra since 1968, and Education Minister José Hermano Saraiva came under pressure as a result. After the final, which was lost 2: 1 after extra time, there were no major protest demonstrations during parades and events. Since Benfica also became champions in the same year, Académica played as Portuguese representative in the European Cup Winners' Cup and only failed there in the quarterfinals with 0-0 and 0-1 against the eventual winners Manchester City .
On April 25, 1974, the Carnation Revolution ended the dictatorship in Portugal. In the absence of the football players who were playing friendly matches in Spain, and as a result of the euphoric and fanatical mood among the student body after the revolution, the professional football section of the club was dissolved at a club meeting on June 20, 1974. Maoist students had prevailed with their radical rejection of professional sport. After the return of the footballers and the decision became known, there were mass protests in Coimbra, as a result of which on August 17, 1974 the Clube Académico de Coimbra (CAC) was founded as the legal successor to the professional football section Académicas and competed in the country's first football league. After various relegations and promotions from the second division (later the Liga de Honra ) and ongoing financial problems, the CAC was dissolved on July 27, 1984 and the return as a professional football section under the umbrella of the AAC. The official name has since been AAC / OAF - Associação Académica de Coimbra / Organismo Autónomo de Futebol ("Academic Association of Coimbra, Autonomous Football Organization").
In 2009 the documentary Futebol de Causas (international title: "Football with a cause") worked on the history of the Académicas football section, in particular its role in the resistance against the regime around the 1969 Cup final.
Soccer
The professional team plays their home games in the municipal stadium of Coimbra . It holds 29,622 spectators and was completely rebuilt for the 2004 European Football Championship. The traditional dress is completely black, based on the typical clothing of the students (see clothing of the Portuguese tunas ). While the club initially consisted exclusively of students, the football department became independent after the Carnation Revolution in 1974 and opened up to professional customs. In 1984 the professional football section returned under the umbrella of the original club.
Académica's greatest success in 1939 was winning the national cup, which was held for the first time that year and which the club won a second time in 2012.
In addition to Mário Wilson , who earned the nickname Capitão Velho ("Old Captain") in his twelve seasons from 1941 to 1963 and who as coach brought Académico to the runner-up and the cup final in 1967 and also became master coach at Benfica and national coach, José Maria also deserves Antune's attention. Antunes was part of the cup winning team from 1939, later briefly coach at the club and between 1958 and 1969 national coach for three periods. He also gained an excellent reputation as a medical professional. Artur Jorge , who lived in Coimbra from 1965 to 1969, is not only considered an important player, but later also won numerous national and international championship titles as a coach.
successes
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Portuguese Cup : 1939, 2012
- Cup finalists: 1951, 1967, 1969
- Portuguese runner-up in 1967
- Quarter-finalist in the 1970 European Cup Winners' Cup
Other sports
In addition to its football department, the club operates a number of other sports. The basketball team , for example, has been Portuguese champions several times . In 2012, the club operated its sports activities in 26 organizational sections:
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statements by officials at the time in the documentary Futebol de Causas , Sofá Filmes 2009
- ↑ Magazin 11 Freunde No. 119, October 2011, page 74ff
- ↑ http://www.academica-oaf.pt/home/historia/#