It had the level “which, nowadays, is in players like Cristiano Ronaldo.” He never played football beyond the children of CD Gouveia, Guarda.
“I concentrated? Who is that player?”
As when this journalist tried to mention Caxiro Fábio Coentrão, uttering his name, Cristiano Ronaldo would be equally incredulous at the beginning of the millennium if the Baila came an even better Portuguese player than Cris, the best in the world, CR7.
We talk about the ace, the myth, the legend, the perfect striker, the best soccer player of all time: Tó Madeira.
In the third Portuguese division, the young promise marked and enchanted – not only Portugal, but the whole world – playing for the club of his homeland, the Cd gouveia, until you reach giants like Real Madrid.
If you are a fan of the beautiful game and you’ve never heard of it, maybe it’s because we have never played football professionally. But for those who had fun sitting, playing the video game Championship Manager (CM) – Little later known as Football Manager (FM) – In early 2000, the ace will be forever remembered with great affection – to the point that a (real) team was created with its name, FC Tó Madeira, later in the UK.
Tó Madeira did not exist in the world of the ball, but was in the game, and whoever bought it would not be unhappy with his services. But after all, how did a fake player end up to one of the most famous football simulators in the world?
The ace, that the Swedish Gyokeres would make it remember today, for not getting less than 30 goals by time, was actually António Lopesa employee of the company Sports Interactive (SI), who created the video game.
At his request, sent by e-mail to the company, António Lopes was responsible for creating and introducing the Gouveia, Guarda squad in the game. But the Civil Engineering course that was taking stole more time-so Antonio had to be creative.
Shortly, he got into himself in the game and two other friends on that third league squad, in his case with a pseudonym for which they were treating him when he was a kid and would be for the story. In this process, he also abused the attributes and potential of his avatar, he revealed his own newspaper in 2014, thus creating a worldwide legend.
The video game database identified the jack and a new version of the game was released with the correction, without the legend, but it was too late: Tó Madeira stayed to the history of virtual football, known beyond Lush Lands. It had the level “which today is in players like Cristiano Ronaldo,” he recalled to P3.
To this day, the hero Tó Madeira did not face, but in England, the myth survived at least until 2018, the year that his name was still dripping sweat on the nightgowns of an amateur football team called… FC Tó Madeira.
“FC Tó Madeira was born from a joke. Me and a friend, Michael, who is now the coach, we used to score football games with some friends at work. As the games were increasingly frequent and almost always with the same players we decided to make a team to attack the 2011/12 season,” said Stuart Warren, deputy coach and club communication. The team would eventually finish the season last.
Tomás Guimarães, Zap //
