Cândido de Oliveira

Cândido Plácido Fernandes de Oliveira ( * September 24 1896 in fronteira, Portugal, † June 23, 1958 in Stockholm, Sweden) was a Portuguese journalist, football player and coach, regarded as one of the early stars of Portuguese football. The Mestre ( Master ) is, inter alia, Namesake of the Portuguese Super Cup.

Life

Cândido de Oliveira was born in Alentejo, already lost his parents early and arrived on 15 July 1905 in the Lisbon orphanage Casa Pia, whose inhabitants in 1904 Benfica founded.

Oliveira was an active wrestler and football player. As a football coach, he worked at Casa Pia Atlético Clube, Sporting Lisbon, Belenenses Lisbon, FC Porto, Académica Coimbra, Flamengo Rio de Janeiro and the Portuguese national football team.

As a journalist, he worked for the newspaper Vitória, co-founder and director of football newspaper and magazines Gazeta Desportiva, Os Sports and A Bola and editor of O Século. He is the author of the soccer -books Futebol, Desporto para a Juventude, Futebol, Técnica e Táctica, Sistema WM and Segredos do Futebol and the regime - critical book O Pântano da Morte.

Cândido de Oliveira died during the Football World Cup 1958 in Sweden in the exercise of his journalistic work for A Bola.