Guilherme Pinto Basto

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Guilherme Ferreira Pinto Basto (born February 1, 1864 in Lisbon , † July 26, 1957 ibid) was a Portuguese sports official and entrepreneur. He is considered a pioneer of football and tennis in Portugal .

Life

Basto was born in Santa Catarina , a district of the capital Lisbon, as the scion of a wealthy and aristocratic family. After his first school year in Portugal, he attended various schools abroad, including the Downside School in southern England , as well as other schools in Paris and Germany.

The sports enthusiast Basto got involved in various sports on his return to Portugal. He earned his living as an employee at E. Pinto Basto & Cª Lda. , the trading company of his father Eduardo Pinto Basto, and was also honorary consul and authorized representative u. a. for Iceland and Siam and Consul General of Denmark in Portugal. In the meantime he was also a partner in the traditional porcelain manufacturer Vista Alegre . However, his greatest attention was paid to sporting activity and the promotion of sporting organizations. In addition to roller skating and roller hockey, ice hockey, cycling, horse racing, bullfighting, sailing, rowing, car racing and golf, it was football and tennis in particular that he was particularly committed to. He is considered the father and pioneer of both Portuguese tennis and Portuguese football .

For example, the first rule-compliant soccer game in Portugal was a meeting of 28 sports fans in Cascais in October 1888, with Basto playing a decisive role. Basto's brothers Eduardo and Frederico had probably previously brought the first regular football from England to Portugal.

Basto then took on various organizational tasks. He was instrumental in founding the two sports clubs Club Internacional de Football and Sporting Club de Cascais . The founding of the Portuguese tennis association FPT on March 16, 1925 as Federação Portuguesa de Lawn-Tennis in Cascais goes back to Basto's initiative, of which he also became first president.

Basto was also active as an athlete himself. He not only played in the first soccer game in Portugal in 1888, but also in many of the national and international tennis competitions he helped initiate in Portugal, including his participation in the Portuguese International Championships in 1901 , where he reached the quarter-finals as a 37-year-old . In total, he was Portuguese tennis champion nine times.

Basto remained an active athlete all his life. In 1950, at the age of 86, he was considered the oldest active tennis player in Portugal.

In Cascais, a soccer field and a sports hall complex are named after Guilherme Pinto Basto. In Vila Franca de Xira and Fernão Ferro streets also bear his name.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d founding chapter on the history page of the Portuguese Tennis Federation , accessed on August 30, 2015
  2. ↑ a b Personal Lexicon Quem é Quem - Portugueses Célebres. 1st edition, Temas & Debates, Lisbon 2009, page 84 ( ISBN 978-989-644-047-3 )
  3. ↑ Entry on Guilherme Pinto Basto in the blog on football history in Portugal (port.), Accessed on August 30, 2015
  4. ↑ Reference to the introduction of football in Portugal in the article in the Infopédia , the online encyclopedia of the Porto Editora , accessed on August 30, 2015
  5. ↑ Bastos entry in the tennis archive www.tennisarchives.com , accessed on August 30, 2015
  6. ↑ Entry by Campo Guilherme Pino Basto on www.zerozero.pt, accessed on August 29, 2015
  7. ↑ Entry by Pavilhão Guilherme Pinto Basto on www.footballzz.com, accessed on August 29, 2015
  8. ↑ Rua Guilherme Pinto Basto on www.portugalio.com, accessed on August 30, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Basto, Guilherme Pinto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Basto, Guilherme Ferreira Pinto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese sports official and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Lisbon , Portugal
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1957
Place of death Lisbon , Portugal