Casa Pia

Casa Pia Atletico Clube is a professional football club founded in 1920 and based in Lisbon, Portugal, that competes in the Liga Portugal 2. The club is named after Casa Pia, a Portuguese children's charity, and many of its athletes come from that institution. Its football stadium is Estadio Pina Manique, after Pina Manique, the founder of Casa Pia children's charity.

Casa Pia had four players at the first match of Portugal national football team, in Madrid, at 18 December 1921, which finished in a 1–3 loss. Casa Pia player Candido de Oliveira was the captain. Casa Pia promoted from Serie E of Terceira Divisao to Centre Group of Portuguese Second Division in 2009–10 season as champions. They were promoted again to LigaPro in 2019.

History

The Athletic Club “Casa Pia” is a centenary club. It was founded on the third July 1920 by several Portuguese personalities of the time, namely Ricardo Ornelas, David Ferreira, Mario da Silva Marques and Antonio Pinho. Most important of all was Candido de Oliveira, national instructor and Benfica player, as well as co-founder of the Abola newspaper along with Vicente de Melo e Ribeiro dos Reis.

The club is intrinsically linked to its mother house, Lisbon Casa Pia, a public institution which is responsible for the promotion of the rights and protection of children and youngsters, being one of the bastions of the sport, culture and solidarity in Portugal. The “Geese” as they are known, are in the genesis of the football's outline in Portugal, after a victory upon the British masters of Carcavelos club in 1898. Throughout the history, the Athletic Club “Casa Pia” has already had 25 different modalities, thus being one of the most eclectic Portuguese clubs. Football has always been the main modality of the “Casa Pia” club. However, it ended up to be Mario da Silva Marques, one of the club founders, and outstanding swimmer, to be the first sportsman to represent officially the club in a festival in Alcantara docks.

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