Pinto da Costa’s funeral will start on Sunday afternoon, from 18:00, at the Antas Church, in Porto, with the funeral scheduled for the morning of the next day.
Pedro Proença will be sworn in at the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF) on February 24, at 11:30 am, announced today the body governing the sport, due to the funeral ceremonies of the former president of FC Porto Pinto da Costa.
“The inauguration of the new president of the FPF, Pedro Proença, and the remaining social bodies was resigned for February 24, at 11:30,” read in the statement issued today at the FPF site.
Pedro Proença was elected to succeed Fernando Gomes in the presidency of the FPF, in Quadrennium 2024-2028, on Friday, having, to assume the position of leaving the leadership of the Portuguese Professional Football League (LPFP), which should take place in the Assembly General, which would be followed by a president, scheduled for Monday, now a coincident with the Pinto da Costa funeral.
O Pinto da Costa’s funeral will start on Sunday afternoon, starting at 18:00, at the Antas Church, in Porto, with the funeral scheduled for the morning of the next day.
In Friday’s elections, Pedro Proença collected 62 votes among the 84 delegates who voted at the FPF General Electoral Assembly, against 21 de Nuno Lobo, who presided over the last 13 years to the Lisbon Football Association, and there was also a vote in white.
They accompany Proença in the ‘cast’ directive José Fontelas Gomes, chairman of the arbitration board in the last two Gomes’ terms, the leaders of class associations Joaquim Evangelista, the players, former footballers Toni, Domingos Paciência and Daniel Carriço, together With Sofia Teles and Pedro Xavier, from the associations of Porto and Beja, and Júlio Vieira, who chaired the Association of Leiria and was part of the cast of Gomes, as well as Sandra Costa Parente, who leads the company connects centralization.
Former Secretary of Social Democratic State Luís Álvaro Campos Ferreira will lead the table of the General Assembly (MAG), which also has the socialist and also former ruler João Paulo Rebelo.
The other social bodies will be chaired by Luciano Gonçalves, leader of the Portuguese Association of Football Referees (APAF), in the case of the Arbitration Council, Ana Raquel Sismeiro, the Fiscal Council (CF), Sandra Oliveira e Silva, who chairs the Commission of LPFP instructors, the Disciplinary Council, and Luís Verde de Sousa for the Justice Council.
Fernando Gomes, 72, leaves the presidency of the FPF after three terms since his first election, on December 10, 2011 – was sworn in a week later, on the 17th.
