Cosme Damião

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Cosme Damião
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Personnel
Surname Júlio Cosme Damião
birthday November 2, 1885
place of birth Lisbon ,  Portugal
date of death June 11, 1947
Place of death Sintra ,  Portugal
position midfield player
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1904-1916 Benfica Lisbon 76 (14)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1908-1926 Benfica Lisbon
1 Only league games are given.

Júlio Cosme Damião (born November 2, 1885 in Lisbon , Portugal , † June 11, 1947 in Sintra , Portugal) was a Portuguese football player , coach, manager, captain, journalist, vice-president, chairman of the general assembly and main founder of Benfica Lisbon . Between its founding and 1926, he was the main operator of Benfica Lisbon and with his initiative, perseverance, enthusiasm and leadership made SL Benfica the largest and most popular club in Portugal.

To this day, he is considered the main character in the history of Benfica Lisbon.

career

Cosme Damião was born in Lisbon , lost his father at the age of nine and, at the request of his mother, came to the Casa Pia de Lisboa children's home in Lisbon on April 30, 1896 . At the age of 18, Cosme Damião was one of the 24 founders of Sport Lisboa (later Sport Lisboa e Benfica ), which was founded on February 28, 1904. At the beginning he was neither a player nor a manager of the club. In the 1904/05 season, on February 19, 1905, he played as a central midfielder in the debut of the reserve team in a 1-0 win against the reserve team of Grupo de Campo de Ourique, which were then considered to be one of the best teams at that time. In the 1905/06 season he continued to play in the second team.

He made his official debut with the main squad on January 17, 1907 in a 4-1 win over Carcavelos . He was as passionate about it as he was on the field, at one of the most critical moments, when eight players moved to Sporting Lisbon in 1907, he built a new team that won the first Lisbon championship three years later. From 1908 he supported the team by working both as a player and as a coach of the team.

On February 26, 1916, after the home game against the Spanish club RC Fortuna de Vigo , he ended his playing career at the age of 30, after which he had found a worthy replacement for himself. In his immeasurable passion he went on organizing, directing, coaching players and managing SL Benfica, both in football and in other forms, for more than a decade.

Others

  • Damião ended his career before the first game of the Portuguese national football team , but he still played for the unofficial Lisbon national team that played in Brazil in 1913.
  • Damião renounced the position as president of the club until his death.
  • On September 6, 1931-1934 he was elected chairman of the general assembly.
  • He was the goalkeeper of the Benfica Lisbon hockey team .
  • Damião had the longest tenure as a coach in the club's history.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ O nosso Cosme Damião nasceu há 126 anos published on November 2, 2011 on em-defesa-do-benfica.blogspot.pt (Portuguese)
  2. ↑ Cosme Damião História published on sites.google.com/a/in.cscm-lx.pt (Portuguese)
  3. ↑ Cosme Damião: Há 127 anos no pensamento benfiquista published on November 2, 2012 on aovivo.slbenfica.pt (Portuguese)
personal data
SURNAME Damião, Cosme
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Damião, Júlio Cosme (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Lisbon , Portugal
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1947
Place of death Sintra , Portugal