Porto shouted the loss of its historic president Jorge Nuno Pinto Da Costa, Dead this Saturday at 87 after fighting Cancer. His health status deteriorated in recent months.
Pinto Da Costa has been president of Porto for 42 years, between 1982 and 2024. He left office in May last year after defeated by André Villas-Boas In the election. Since then he has been an honorary president of the Portuguese Club.
Entered the club in 1962
Pinto Da Costa entered the management team as responsible for the Porto Skates section in 1962. Five years later he went to the boxing section. In 1982, after becoming a soccer director, he presented himself as a presidential candidate, a position he had not left since then until last May.
Twice champion in Europe
Then they started four decades full of great success, with countless achievements in all modalities. In football the alleged moment arrived on May 27, 1987, along with the conquest of the first European Cup, defeated Bayern Munich in the last 2-1, and on May 26, 2004, with a 3-0 victory before Monaco in Champions League the final played in Gelsenkirchen by the hand of José Mourinho.
European titles did not stay there, adding a UEFA Cup (2003), a Europe League (2011), Definitely with villas-boas on the bench, and a European Super Cup (1987). In 1987 and 2004, FC Porto won the Intercontinental Cup
At the national level, Porto achieved 23 league titles featuring pentacampeonato between 1995 and 1999. Between football and other sports, of the most diverse levels, left the door da Costa the blue and white team with more in 1,300 titles in its note.
In addition to his successes, the door Da Costa is known for its ability to organize players at low prices and move them years later for astronomical figures.
Source: La Verdad
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