A documentary about the struggle of Coimbra's local football team against the dictatorial regime of Salazar in the 70's. | dG1fLUZJU1JVeFVsU1k
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00:00THE FIRST FOOTBALL GENERAL
00:07Ah, great photograph, yes, sir.
00:09This is a friend, a great friend, Vítor Santos, from Jornal da Bola,
00:13who was the right-hand man, Mestre Cândido Oliveira.
00:16Mestre Cândido Oliveira came here to Coimbra,
00:20he was here from Monday to Sunday,
00:24after the end of the match he went to Lisbon,
00:27and, in the meantime, this Vítor Santos was in charge of the newspaper.
00:31May I do an interview? I don't know when it was.
00:37In fact, at the time, Bola covered the whole country,
00:41and had, in fact, great journalists,
00:46I would say almost great writers.
00:48They made a game chronicle,
00:50gave it a realism, and sometimes such brilliance,
00:54that we, reading the game chronicle, having watched the game,
00:58we still heard it in a much more beautiful way
01:01than we had, perhaps, seen on the same day, in the same place.
01:05They were, in fact, great journalists who wrote for Bola,
01:08and what made us spend a whole Monday
01:11reading those great reports, a whole page,
01:14when the newspaper was, in fact, very long, very big.
01:16There were also reporters here on a regional scale,
01:20António Alberto, Manuel Gaspar and Álvaro Pradigão,
01:23who accompanied the Academic Association of Coimbra,
01:26especially Manuel Gaspar,
01:28who was a hardcore fan of the Academic Association of Coimbra.
01:32Some episodes are famous, like him making the report
01:37and saying like this,
01:39ouch, ouch, ouch, it's going to be a goal, it's going to be a goal!
01:43It was a goal against Académica, wasn't it?
01:45So he was, ouch, ouch, ouch.
01:47There was the kick that Peck has more at hand,
01:49there was the crossbar, there is a head of Carneiro in the middle,
01:52it looked like Carneiro was there in the middle of the stadium
01:55and the ball was going to hit him.
01:57Anyway, those were very well-known phrases of Manuel Gaspar.
02:00It's good that historians can also verify,
02:06analyze the headlines,
02:08make a critical review of what was written,
02:12even in the sports newspapers,
02:14because in the headlines it was seen a lot,
02:18it is possible to see
02:20what ended up happening in the final.
02:24Remember that there were no suicides in Portugal,
02:26people fell, slipped on the bridge of D. Luís in Porto
02:29and fell to the river Douro, wasn't it?
02:31It was all like that, a simple story, a simple chronicle
02:34saying that GNR had been watching the game and that it was doing nothing
02:37was cut by censorship.
02:39So the scheme was, we were inside that scheme
02:43and we ran away through the subterfuge of language
02:47where academic publications were prodigies
02:49and the talented journalists
02:51who existed then in the sports press,
02:55with some pairs saying that they were not journalists,
02:59but they managed to do, in a way,
03:02to make a much more accutelating criticism
03:05than the generalist press.
03:07Precisely, also at the expense of the Academic Association of Coimbra.
03:10And it was not in vain that the sympathy of many journalists
03:13turned here.
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