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
An incomplete mandate caused by, some of the elected, lacking of democratic culture which is in the
Benfica’s essence (origin and development).
The three first months, as a president, were not peaceful, mostly because of the negative effects of World
War I, with social and political instability in the country, originating a deep crisis to the financial
revenues. The existing discomfort in the club was contributing to the directive board breakdown. A group of
members, with Cosme Damião on the “head”, got a loan to liquidate the urgent debts, solving a part of the
situation. The football team was Lisbon Champion, a title that we only missed once(1914/15), between 1911/12
and 1917(18).
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