Oriental

Clube Oriental de Lisboa is a Portuguese football club based in Lisbon. Founded in 1946, it currently competes in the Campeonato de Portugal, holding home games at Campo Engenheiro Carlos Salema, with an 8,500 capacity.

History

Clube Oriental de Lisboa was founded on 8 August 1946 by the merger of three clubs: Grupo Desportivo Os Fosforos, Marvilense Futebol Clube, and Chelas Futebol Clube.

Rui de Seixas, then-president of Chelas Football Club, in an interview with The Sports in January 1936, first raised the idea of a single club that encompasses the entire eastern part of the head. But many were the critics who lashed the most prestigious leader causing him to give up the idea almost immediately. Still, days later, Jose Marques de Oliveira returns to the charge but your interview is simply ignored.

In support of parochial ambitions and rivalries almost sick for a few more years Chelas, Marvilense Matches and battle it out in real battles "in search of fleeting glory. Lisbon lived quietly in their depression, as the war spread throughout the world.

It is then, in late April 1946, the billiards room Coffee Ice, Arthur Ines scribe prestigious newspaper "Republic", is asked by Jose Marques de Oliveira, former vice president of Chelas said: If you wanted to could make a great sports club in Lisbon. Something with such incredulous words, Agnes Arthur replied: He guaranteed that no environment for a merger between the clubs? Absolutely. The elements of the three clubs want it. – Said Jose Marques de Oliveira.

Having then been introduced to some distinguished leaders of the three clubs, such as Rui de Seixas and others, publishes an opinion piece not signing in May 1946, but has the power to shake everyone's Marvila, Beato, Xabregas Well and Poco Bispo.

On 13 July 1946, Arthur Ines, visibly moved by the unfolding of events written in the pages of his "Republic": "We can guarantee that almost all the mass of the three associat

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