Associação Académica de Coimbra – O.A.F.
Académica de Coimbra is a football club, whose team plays in the Portuguese football league. It is the oldest existing sports club in Portugal. The team is also known as A Briosa what " The Dashing " or " The Proud " can be translated. The association is in Portugal known for its history, particularly for his student traditions, and its role in the resistance against the Estado Novo regime (1932-1974) in Portugal.
History
The club was founded on November 3, 1887 by students of the University of Coimbra Academic Association of Coimbra under the name (AAC ), under the umbrella of the same academic student organization in Coimbra. This was founded in 1876 by a merger of Clube Atlético de Coimbra in 1861 and founded in 1837 Academia Dramatica. The club has since been strongly rooted in the traditional student traditions of the city, including the Republicas, self-managed student residences Coimbra. The football section of the AAC was established in 1911.
1962 were the students in Coimbra in a strike and there were protests when the regime responded to increasing demands for educational reforms and democratic management with repression and showed no willingness to talk. With its colored captain, who later became coach Mário Wilson, the popular football team Académica was one of the pillars of the protest. Their games were one of the few opportunities for the opposing students to meet public and to show presence in public. The football team Académicas, which contested the first division, always consisted of students of Coimbra and had no professional footballers in their ranks, as opposed to the rest of league play. In return, they offered a rare opportunity to study for poor students in Portugal at the time.
As Académica 1969 reached the final of the national cup against Benfica, the many terraces students were at the Estádio Nacional banners with demands, and the game became the largest protest demonstration against the regime in its history. The data published as Crise Académica, diverse student protests in Portugal had greatly intensified since 1968 in Coimbra especially José Hermano Saraiva and Education Minister came in the sequence under pressure. After, lost 2-1 after extra time the final major protest demonstrations in the context of parades and events failed to materialize, however. Since Benfica was also champion in the same year, Académica enlisted as Portuguese representative to the European Cup Winners' Cup and failed there in the quarter -finals with just 0-0 and 0-1 to eventual winners Manchester City.
On April 25, 1974, the Carnation Revolution ended the dictatorship in Portugal. In the absence of the football players, who were friendly matches in Spain, and as a result of euphoric and fanatical atmosphere among the student body after the revolution, the professional football section of the club was dissolved at a General Meeting on 20 June 1974. Maoist students had prevailed with their radical rejection of professional sports. After the return of football players and the announcement of the decision took place in Coimbra mass protests, which resulted in on August 17, 1974, the Clube Académico de Coimbra ( CAC) was established as a legal successor of the professional football section Académicas and took in the first football league in the country. After various descents and climbs again from the second division (later the Liga de Honra ) and persistent financial problems on 27 July 1984, the resolution of the CAC and the return as a professional football section under the roof of the AAC. Its official name is since AAC / OAF - Associação Académica de Coimbra / Organismo Autónomo de Futebol ( "Academic Association of Coimbra, Autonomous football organization ").
The history of the football section Académicas, in particular their role in the resistance against the regime around the cup final 1969: In 2009, the documentary Futebol de Causas worked ( "Football With a Cause " international titles ).
Football
The professional team wears their home games at the municipal stadium of Coimbra. It can hold 30,000 spectators and was used for the 2004 European Football Championship completely rebuilt. The traditional dress is completely black, based on the typical dress of the students ( refer clothing Portuguese Tunas ). While the club initially consisted exclusively of students, the football department became independent after the Carnation Revolution in 1974 and opened professional practice. 1984 returned the professional football section back under the roof of the original association.
Académicas biggest success in 1939 was the profit of the year in the inaugural national cup, which the club won in 2012 for a second time.
Besides Mário Wilson, who in his twelve seasons 1941-1963 nicknamed Capitão Velho ( "Old Captain " ) acquired and brought as coach in 1967 Académico Vice championship and the cup final and also champion coach at Benfica and coach, was also earns José Maria Antunes attention. Antunes was part of the Cup winning team of 1939, shortly later coach at club and 1958-1969 in three periods coach. He also gained a reputation as a physician. Artur Jorge, from 1965 to 1969 in Coimbra, is not only an important player, but also later won numerous national and international championship titles as a coach.
Achievements
- Portuguese Cup: 1939, 2012 Cup finalist: 1951, 1967, 1969
Other sports
In addition to his football department of the club operates a number of other sports. Several times Portuguese champion was for example the basketball team. Overall, the club in 2012 pursued his sports activities in 26 organizational sections:
- Handball
- Athletics
- Badminton
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Billiards
- Boxing
- Body building
- Water Sports ( water skiing, sailing, windsurfing, kayaking, canoeing, etc.)
- Electronic Sports
- Gymnastics
- Weightlifting
- Judo
- Wrestling
- Karate
- Swimming
- Roller Hockey
- Miniature Motorsport
- Sport Fishing
- Rugby
- Taekwondo
- Tennis
- Archery
- Volleyball
- Chess