The President of the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF), Fernando Gomes, ceases functions as the institution’s greatest leader, with a success of sports sustainability.
After three terms at the head of the FPF, the leader, Fernando Gomes, says goodbye to robust inheritance in strategic partners to exponent the profitability of the federation, but, above all, by putting several teams in the competitive elite.
Fernando Gomes It was the face of success, reaching what no one else has achieved in almost 115 years in the history of the FPF. Euro2016 remains a kind of pinnacle of achievements, which followed the victory in the League of Nations, in 2019after the right to compete, as European champion, in the Confederations Cup (2017).
But before, with Gilberto Madail, there is also a recognition, and continuityof national football in major competitions, especially in the campaigns of Euro2004 (expired finalist) and 2012 (semifinalist), or World Cup2006 (fourth).
In his mandates, FPF President Fernando Gomes, training economist, It featured the coach Paulo Bento (2010 to 2014), ‘inherited’ still from the presidency of Madail, Fernando Santos, the 2016 succession, and lastly the current Spanish Roberto Martínez.
With men’s football, and Cristiano Ronaldo, as a lever in the growth of the FPF itself, Fernando Gomes did not find out the female aspect and it was in his management that the number of practitioners grew up and Portugal disputed their first phases final. In 2017, the women’s team played their first European, which followed a new presence in 2022 in England, and this year will return to continental competition in Switzerland, reinforcing the growth of women practiced by women, who also debuted in a World Cup , in 2023.
In training, he watched good campaigns and some achievements of the younger ones, in the U-17 (2016) and U-19 (2018) male titles, although Portugal remains a higher title in U21, once again ‘Vice’, in 2015 and 2021. U21 coach Rui Jorge continued to be a Gomes’ bet, similar to what he did in the female team, which holds Francisco Neto, who will be in his third consecutive European . Politics equally followed to coach Jorge Braz, who leads Portuguese futsal since 2010 and reached an unprecedented world title in 2021, after having already taken the ‘Quinas’ selection to the European’s conquest in 2018, which would repeat in 2022.
In beach football, the FPF, under the command of Fernando Gomes, already had a ‘inheritance’ of results, but they have been expanded in the last decade, with Two more world titles (2015 and 2019) and five Europeans (2015, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2024).
Before reaching the FPF, Gomes launched its bases in FC Portoclub in had an important role, first as basketball and then leader, as well as in the Portuguese Basketball Federation. In football, he also gained space in the service of the ‘dragons’, as SAD’s director and administrator for the financial area, before taking over in 2010 the presidency of the Portuguese Professional Football League, a body in which he remained just over a year , already with the FPF in the ‘Horizonte’. And it was as leader of the FPF, first at the headquarters in Lisbon, and then already in the city of Football, in Oeiras, a sports complex that was ‘born’ also under its management, which ‘crossed’ four Europeans (2012, 2016, 2020 and 2024) and three worlds (2014, 2018 and 2022).
To the many trophies, the leader joined the work: With the erection of the city of football, the ‘headquarters’ of the teams, inaugurated in 2016to which Fernando Gomes joined, last year, Arena Portugal, a multifunctional pavilion, In what was a promise, fulfilled, for Portuguese futsal. Still next to the city of football, Gomes ‘launched’ a project that allowed FPF to give greater visibility in all its areas, with the creation in 2019 of the television channel 11platform that has been broadcasting rights in women’s football, futsal, in several leagues of men’s soccer (League 3, Portugal Championship, Portugal Cup, among others).
