A documentary about the struggle of Coimbra's local football team against the dictatorial regime of Salazar in the 70's. | dG1fOXN2TXR0TDdaNEE
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00:00In 1974, before the vote, the whole academic team went to Spain.
00:11And out of curiosity, out of fear, we didn't know what this was going to lead to.
00:17Everyone was thinking, what is this going to lead to?
00:20They went to the direction and filled the truck's trunk with all the cups.
00:25We couldn't lose the cups we had, there weren't many, but they were the ones we had.
00:30And so the cups went to the direction with the academy team.
00:33Surprisingly, some political figures at the time gave us all the support.
00:37One of them was Vasco Gonçalves, who knew the academy players.
00:44He had also been an athlete, and his father had also been an athlete, a footballer.
00:48And so, the first thing he did when he joined our delegation,
00:52the others were outside, when he joined our delegation,
00:56the first thing he asked Vitor Campos was how Mario was doing,
00:59who had fractured a leg, he had fractured his tibia, a few days before.
01:05A few days before, or a few weeks before, and he asked how Mario was doing.
01:09And so, there was a thought of ours, we were at home,
01:14so things were going to take shape.
01:17And they did, with several delegations, several meetings,
01:20and we managed to become part of the Academy Club of Coimbra.
01:27Camarada Vasca was a fabulous man.
01:30When we were received by Vasco Gonçalves, we started talking,
01:34and Vasco Gonçalves turned to Mario and said,
01:36Hey, are you feeling better now?
01:38We looked at each other and said,
01:40Hey, this guy knows this, he's ours.
01:42Vasco Gonçalves was an academy player.
01:45He was a man who helped us, too.
01:49He was a man who helped us.
01:52Life has these things, it has these contrasts, I mean,
01:55but he was a man who helped us, a man who was from the academy,
01:58who knew, and who was on par,
02:00he talked about Mario Campos' injury, I remember that,
02:02he had had a knee problem at the time,
02:05and he was a man who knew,
02:07anyway, we found positive surprises, other negative ones,
02:11but these stories, one day, must be written, I think.
02:18Note that the Portuguese University
02:20was the headquarters of the militia officers in the colonial war,
02:25and therefore, everything that had to do with the dictatorship,
02:30the spaces of freedom and culture that the university constituted,
02:34were naturally an affluent and very important for April 25th.
02:39April 25th is not a simple act of young capitals
02:45who decide to defeat and end the dictatorship.
02:51It is the culmination of a Portuguese people's struggle
02:53in several dimensions,
02:55and one of which is the dimension of the university students.
02:57A large part of the men of April 25th, of the capitals of April,
03:02are university students.
03:04In their dimension, they are our colleagues, our friends,
03:07they are people like us.