Duarte António Borges Coutinho
Mário Lampreia de Gusmão Madeira
João Tamagnini de Sousa Barbosa
Eng. Alfredo Silveira Ávila de Melo
José Antunes dos Santos Junior
António Nunes de Almeida Guimarães
There were five high level years, turning the club modernized and towards excellency.
“Águia de Ouro” since 1938, he came to the presidency with a goal: to build the stadium. The works started
on the 14th of June 1953 and it was inaugurated on the 1st of December 1954, with two “rings” (stands all
around the field) and 35 thousand seats. On that “Stadium Saga”, he put the supporters together, to get it
viable. He won, twice, the Championship and the Portuguese Cup at the same season. The members number almost
duplicated, between 1951 (16.534) and 1956 (36.839). By the time of the golden weeding (1954), with the
manager Otto Glória, he had professionalized the Football, hired excellent footballers and created the “Lar
do Jogador” (Nursing home).
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