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Reinaldo Costa Teles Pinheiro, one of the faithful squires from the first hour of Pinto da Costa, president of FC Porto, passed away.
The “Chefinho”, as the footballers who passed the dragons called him affectionately, was 70 years old – he was born in Paços de Ferreira, on February 14, 1950 – and lost the battle for life to covid-19, at the Hospital de São João. , in Porto, where he had been hospitalized for about a month. Widowed, his wife Lourdes passed away on November 8, 2011, he had two children.
Reinaldo Teles accompanies Pinto da Costa since they met in 1967, when the now president was director of Boxing and was a promising boxer at the club. A relationship of complicity, loyalty, trust and friendship broken 53 years later by the cursed coronavirus, whose pandemic is leaving the world in swamps. “May he win, because he really is a man who has done a lot, a lot, for this club. It will be very difficult for a president like Pinto da Costa to appear,” Reinaldo Teles said in June, in one of the last public statements, when he supported reelection de Pinto da Costa for the 14th term at the helm of FC Porto.
He was 12 years old when he enrolled in Dragons as a practically boxer, in which he was regional (1971) and national (1973/74) champion in the middleweight category. He lowered his gloves in 1979, after 17 years as an athlete, but he remained linked to Porto boxing, assuming the functions of sectioner at the invitation of … Pinto da Costa. And that was until 1982, because Pinto da Costa, when he assumed the presidency, called him to football, as deputy director. He lived close to FC Porto’s first European conquest, the 1984 Cup Winners’ Cup final, lost (2-1) to Juventus, in Basel. Three years later, in 1987, he celebrated FC Porto’s first continental title with Pinto da Costa, with a 2-1 victory over Bayern Munich in Vienna. And six months later he won the Intercontinental Cup, in the famous match with Peñarol, in the snow of Tokyo (Japan). The following year, after the death of Luís Teles Roxo, in a traffic accident, Reinaldo assumed the direction of the Football Department, as the president’s right hand. The first three international finals are among the more than 2000 games in which he sat on the substitutes’ bench for FC Porto, alongside Pinto da Costa and / or coaches such as José Maria Pedroto, Artur Jorge, Tomislav Ivic, António Oliveira , Bobby Robson and José Mourinho, among others.
In 1986, Reinaldo became director of FC Porto. He came to the second most important position in the Directorate in 1990, when he was elected as one of the vice-presidents of Pinto da Costa and still a member of the Superior Council. With the creation of SAD in 1997, he also became a member of the Board of Directors of the company that manages professional football, of which he was still a member in the current 2020/2024 term, although now as a non-executive director. After 30 years as director of the club – his brother, Joaquim Costa Teles Pinheiro, was also vice president of the Board – he ceased to be part of the governing bodies that Pinto da Costa directed in 2016.
For his good services and unrivaled dedication to FC Porto, he was distinguished with the Dragão de Ouro, as coach of the year, in 1989. He received another award, the Dragão de Honra, in 1998, who since October 24, 1994 has become in Member of Honor. of dragons. Discreet and courteous, Reinaldo Teles maintained good relations with practically all sports agents, even in the main rival clubs. He was known as the “entertainer” Superdragões, helping to calm the spirits in times of conflict with the Management.
Trader and entrepreneur, he made headlines for the best reasons. He was among the defendants of FC Porto in the Apito Dourado case – all the cases were finally closed – he faced charges for alleged tax fraud by the Public Ministry, for business in a real estate company in Maia of which he was a co-owner, and was sued by Solverde . in 2007, due to debts with Casino de Espinho.
Reinaldo Teles’ health suffered a severe shock in 2008, when he was the victim of a myocardial infarction that threw him to a bed in the São João Hospital, in Porto, precisely where he would die today, at the age of 70.
1950 – Born on February 14, in Paços de Ferreira
1962 – At the age of 12 he enrolls as a boxing athlete at FC Porto.
1967 – His path intersects with that of Pinto da Costa, who takes over at the head of Porto’s boxing section
1974 – Won the greatest title of his career, when he became the national middleweight champion. Three years before he had won the same category in the Regionals
1979 – End the boxing career and take on the role of boxing sectioner
1982 – Pinto da Costa calls him deputy director of soccer
1986 – Joins the governing bodies for the first time as a director
1988 – Assumes the direction of the Football Department after the disappearance of Luís Teles Roxo, who died in a traffic accident
1990 – Elected vice president of Pinto da Costa for the first time, a position he renewed until 2016, and member of the Superior Council
1997 – Member of the first Board of Directors of FC Porto, Futebol SAD, where he remained until his death, although in this last term he was elected as a non-executive director
2008 – Suffers a myocardial infarction, which leaves you with consequences for the future
2016 – Stay out of the list of governing bodies of FC Porto de Pinto da Costa for the first time since 1986, but continue as administrator of SAD.
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