A documentary about the struggle of Coimbra's local football team against the dictatorial regime of Salazar in the 70's. | dG1fck1QbVRlUjV4Zmc
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00:00This film was made with the support of the European Union and the European Council on Human Rights.
00:12This great nation that we want to be is you, because you are young,
00:18who have to build it with the rightness of your intentions,
00:22with your loyalty.
00:24Without loyalty there can be no understanding.
00:28Do not have any doubt that at this time in Portuguese history,
00:36because young people have a great word to say.
00:41This moment is the representation of the students of the University of Lima.
00:46I ask for permission to speak.
00:49The answer was silence.
00:52The students were forbidden to speak.
00:55It was the 17th of April. That night I was arrested by the PIDE.
00:58On the 22nd of April, in Assembleia Magna, the academic mourning was declared.
01:04I am sure that the order will be reestablished at the University of Coimbra.
01:13The academic association in football had a brutal force.
01:16There was an impoverished stadium in the order.
01:19The academy fell there.
01:21Thousands of people.
01:22We saw the PIDE steal our colleagues.
01:25We entered slowly, with the hood down,
01:29as a sign of academic mourning,
01:31to show our solidarity with the students.
01:37The game usually takes place with a heavy air,
01:41at the interval of lifting those posters.
01:45From then on, a large part of the stadium,
01:48was filled with students, with a strong political weight.
01:53In fact, it was the biggest rally ever held in Portugal, until today.