Leixões fans pay tribute to Vítor Oliveira



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This Sunday, dozens of Leixões fans came to the Estádio do Mar, in Matosinhos, to pay tribute to coach Vítor Oliveira, who died on Saturday.

Throughout the morning, many Leixões fans wanted to pay tribute to the 67-year-old coach, who suffered a heart attack while walking in Angeiras on Saturday.

Next to the Estádio do Mar, a banner was placed reading “Until the helmsman’s day”, with Vítor Oliveira’s face drawn. There are also candles, shirts, flowers and scarves to mourn this sudden loss of Portuguese football.

Leixões officials and the captains of the main team also paid tribute to the coach at the monument.

“Before the minute of silence, André Castro and Jorge Moreira, accompanied by Beto and Pedro Pinto, placed a Leixões shirt with the name of Vítor Oliveira and a wreath at the memorial. An act of great symbolism, which moved him and made him fall. tears of nostalgia among those present. Until one day, helmsman, “wrote Leixões, on the social network Facebook.

Vítor Oliveira became known as ‘king of climbing’, when he achieved 11 promotions to the highest step, in 18 presences, at the service of Paços de Ferreira (1991 and 2019), Académica (1997), União de Leiria (1998), Belenenses (1999). ), Leixões (2007)), Arouca (2013), Moreirense (2014), União da Madeira (2015), Desportivo de Chaves (2016) and Portimonense (2017).

For more than 30 years, between 1978 and 2020, he was in command of Famalicão, Portimonense, Maia, Paços de Ferreira, Gil Vicente, Vitória de Guimarães, Academic, União de Leiria, Sporting de Braga, Belenenses, Rio Ave, Moreirense, Leixões , Trophy, Desportivo das Aves, Arouca, União da Madeira, Desportivo de Chaves and Paços de Ferreira.

As a footballer, he wore the shirts of Leixões, Paredes, Famalicão, Sporting de Espinho, Sporting de Braga and Portimonense.

The Portuguese Professional Football League and the Portuguese Football Federation decreed a minute of silence in the matches to be held this weekend, in memory of Vítor Oliveira.



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