FC Porto has confirmed this Saturday the death at 87 years of Jorge Nuno Pinto Da Cost government and have been 42 years at the head of an institution that he “raised like nobody.”
“It leaves a unique legacy that prouds the entire blue and white nation,” said the ‘dragões’ on their website. “Porto fans celebrated 2,591 wins in 15,356 days of the most durable presidency and with more titles in history,” said the official statement.
“In the 89 years prior to the election of Jorge Nuno Pinto Da Costa, the club had conquered only 16 trophies-no national championships, four Portugal championships, four Portugal glasses and a Cândido de Oliveira Super Cup-three of them-three of them With the legendary director at the head of the football department, “summarized his record.
Then the press release stressed that “since then, everything changed” since Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa “transformed the ‘Andrades’ in ‘Dragões’ and made Porto the Portuguese club with more official titles.” Thus, 23 leagues in Portugal, 22 Portugal Super Cups, 15 Cups of Portugal, a league cup, two intercontinental glasses, one Europe A Europa League and a European Super Cup.
With him in command, according to the same press text, the Porto “was enshrined in Europe and the world in various modalities and age categories, 10 times skating hockey champion, seven times a handball champion, six times pool champion , five times soccer champion, broke droughts that lasted more than three decades, increased the capacity of the Das Antas stadium, built the dragão and added a museum and a pavilion, rehabilitated the field of Constitição and established alliances that allow him to continue enjoying the Olival training center and the Pool Complex of Campanhã “.
“In 1976, when Jorge Nuno Pinto Da Costa assumed the direction of the Football Department, El Porto had 52,000 members, 90% of which were concentrated in the municipalities of Porto, Gondomar, Maia, Matosinhos, Valongo and Vila Nova de Gaia.
“Between April 23, 1982 and May 7, 2024, the largest club in the North became the best Portuguese club and grew from the local and regional level to the European and world scale. Never forget its roots, the Porto grew with the city and the city grew with the Porto.