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Álvaro de Meneses Alves Reis Gomes
writer · army officer · journalist · sports administrator
Madeiran army officer, writer and journalist who directed O Heraldo da Madeira and later the Diário da Madeira. He wrote on Madeira wine, Madeiran houses and mutual aid. As a sports editor and former secretary of the Portuguese Football Federation, he revived the Associação de Foot-ball do Funchal in 1920 and secured Madeira's entry to the Championship of Portugal.
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- Mutualism — Author of the pamphlet «Mutualismo», recommended in the Elucidário as reading on mutual aid in Madeira.
- Sport — Sports editor of the Diário da Madeira who revived the Associação de Foot-ball do Funchal in 1920, founded the nautical sports league and won a table-tennis championship in Coimbra in 1921.
- Sport — Former secretary of the Portuguese Football Federation who secured Madeira's participation in the Championship of Portugal from 1922-23.
- António Augusto de Aguiar Industrial School — Director of the school from 1939.
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