José António Pinto de Sousa, former president of the Portuguese Football Federation Arbitration Board and manager of Boavista, died this Thursday at the age of 85, the I Liga club said, sharing condolences with rival Porto.
“Boavista deeply regrets the passing of José Antonio Gonçalves Pinto de Souza, Member No. 177, who served the Club in several ways in a wide variety of positions, including Vice President, Member of the General Council and President of the Factory during the renovation and modernization of the Bessa Stadium in 1983 year that helped transform Boavista,” reads a note of regret posted on the official website of the Panthers, who will pay homage to the club’s half-trunk flag.
FC Porto was “horrified” by the news of Pinto de Souza’s death and offered its “most sincere condolences” to a childhood friend of Dragoen President Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa, “with whom he was a colleague at the Colégio. das Caldinhas, in Santo Tirso.
The funeral of the leader of the Portuguese Football Federation referees in the 1980s and at the beginning of the 21st century, when he was involved in the Apitu Dourado trial, in which he was later acquitted, takes place on Friday. at 15:00, at the Church of Foco, in Porto.