Cândido de Oliveira

Cândido de Oliveira

Personal information
Full name	Cândido Plácido Fernandes de Oliveira
Date of birth	September 24, 1896
Place of birth	Fronteira, Portugal
Date of death	June 23, 1958 (aged 61)
Place of death	Stockholm, Sweden
Playing position	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1914–1920	Benfica
1920–1926	Casa Pia
National team
1921	Portugal	1	(0)
Teams managed
1926–1929	Portugal
1935–1945	Portugal
1937–1938	Belenenses
1945–1946	Sporting
1947–1949	Sporting
1950	Flamengo
1952	Portugal
1952–1953	Porto
1956–1958	Académica de Coimbra
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (goals)

Cândido Plácido Fernandes de Oliveira (24 September 1896 – 23 June 1958) was a Portuguese football player, coach, and sports journalist.

The Portuguese Super Cup is named "Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira" in his honour.

Life and career

Oliveira was educated at Casa Pia. He played for Benfica from 1911 to 1920, moving then to Casa Pia in 1920, of which he was one of the founders. He had his only cap for the Portuguese national team, in the first game ever of the Selecção das Quinas, on 18 December 1921, a 1–3 loss to Spain in Madrid, a game which he captained.

Oliveira was also a coach of Sporting,^[1] and was in charge, for several times, of the Portuguese national squad, including at the 1928 Olympics.

He was one of the founders of the sports newspaper A Bola in 1945. He also published several books about football.

His opposition to the Portuguese dictatorship landed him several stays in prison, including an imprisonment at the infamous Tarrafal prison.

Death

Oliveira died on 23 June 1958 in Stockholm, Sweden, of lung disease when he was covering the 1958 FIFA World Cup for A Bola. He felt ill a few days before, and even received hospital care, but his spirit of mission brought him back to the stadiums and when he returned to the hospital it was too late.

References

1. Profile and biography of Cândido de Oliveira (in Portuguese)