Cândido de Oliveira

Cândido de Oliveira
Personnel
Surname	Cândido Fernandes Plácido de Oliveira
birthday	September 24, 1896
place of birth	Fronteira ,  Portugal
date of death	June 23, 1958
Place of death	Stockholm ,  Sweden
position	midfield
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1914-1920	Benfica Lisbon
1920-1926	Casa Pia AC
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1921	Portugal	1 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1926-1929	Portugal
1935-1945	Portugal
1937-1938	Belenenses Lisbon
1945-1946	Sporting Lisbon
1947-1949	Sporting Lisbon
1950	Flamengo Rio de Janeiro
1952	Portugal
1952-1953	FC Porto
1956-1958	Académica de Coimbra
1 Only league games are given.

Cândido Fernandes Plácido de Oliveira (born September 24, 1896 in Fronteira , Portugal , † June 23, 1958 in Stockholm , Sweden ) was a Portuguese journalist , football player and coach who is considered one of the early stars of Portuguese football . The Mestre (master) is u. a. Namesake of the Portuguese Super Cup .

Life

Cândido de Oliveira was born in the Alentejo , lost his parents at an early age and came to the Lisbon orphanage Casa Pia on July 15, 1905 , which was founded in 1904.

Oliveira was an active wrestler and soccer player. As a soccer coach, he was active at Casa Pia Atlético Clube , Sporting Lisbon , Belenenses Lisbon , FC Porto , Académica Coimbra , Flamengo Rio de Janeiro and the Portuguese national soccer team .

He worked as a journalist for the Vitória newspaper. He was the co-founder and director of Football and Gazeta Desportiva , Os Sports and A Bola magazines and editor of O Século .

He is the author of the football books Futebol, Desporto para a Juventude , Futebol, Técnica e Táctica , Sistema WM and Segredos do Futebol as well as the book Tarrafal, o pântano da morte (Tarrafal, the morass of death). The latter volume contains articles by Cândido de Oliveira and documents on the Campo do Tarrafal , a notorious camp for political prisoners near the town of Tarrafal on the Cape Verde Islands . Oliveira was unable to publish his dissident articles on the Tarrafal camp during the time of the Estado Novo in his home country. They were published posthumously by José Magalhões Godinho after the end of the dictatorship .

Cândido de Oliveira died in Sweden during the 1958 World Cup .

Web links

Article in O Mundo das Sombras (Portuguese)