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256:, Guilherme Pinto Basto, to invite them to a football match, scheduled for 2 November of the same year. Pinto Basto accepted the invitation, but not on the scheduled day, because it would not have been possible "to gather, choose the group and arrange the departure in such a short space of time". In the meantime, however, Pinto Basto made the same invitation to
318:, who would later become the king. Pinto Basto organised the national championships, which he won nine times. Later, he organised regular international tournaments at the Cascais Sporting Club, the first being held in 1902, when he reached the quarter-finals at the age of 37. In 1923 he persuaded
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England, as well as other schools in Paris and Germany. Showing great sporting ability from an early age, Pinto Basto became involved in various sports after his return to Portugal, both as a sportsman and as a promoter of sporting organizations. While he is particularly known for
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Portugal in British clubs, its dissemination amongst the Portuguese was mainly due to those who had been to England. The main credit for this goes to Pinto Basto, who was for many years Portugal's best player. Cascais Sporting Club had courts by 1882 and, as a
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porcelain factory that had been set up by his great grandfather, as well as the Anglo-Portuguese Kaolin
Company. Pinto Basto married twice: first to Maria LuĂsa de Portugal de Sousa Coutinho, who died in 1894 and then to a distant cousin, Branca Jervis Atouguia Ferreira Pinto Basto, in 1895.
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having popularized both football and tennis in
Portugal, he also took part in hockey, cycling, horse racing, bullfighting, sailing, rowing, car racing and golf. He worked for E. Pinto Basto & CÂȘ Lda., the trading company of his father Eduardo Pinto Basto, and also became a partner in the
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Portugal, with Pinto Basto apparently playing in goal. This can be considered to have been the first proper match in Portuguese history, in that the pitch had markings and goalposts, and the match followed the rules and lasted 90 minutes.
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and sponsorship of the King was pivotal to attract a significant number of spectators, as football was practically an unknown sport in
Portugal at the time. The match was thus the first major football event in Portugal, and on that day, he played as Lisbon's
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National Seniors Tennis Championships are named after him. He was still playing at the age of 86 when he was considered to be the oldest tennis player in the country.
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in Lisbon to welcome the King and his family home after a long trip outside of Lisbon. He followed the Royal
Carriage on foot and was one of the closest people to the King when he and his elder son, LuĂs Filipe,
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English in 1889, the Portuguese then struggled to field a team able to beat British expatriates. Pinto Basto was one of the founders, together with his brothers, of the
160:, to a wealthy and aristocratic family. His father was Eduardo Ferreira Pinto Basto and his mother Lucy Custance. After schooling in Portugal until he was 14, he attended various schools abroad, including the
272:. Ponsonby accepted Pinto Basto's invitation, and together they organized this meeting, which was held a few months later, on 2 March 1894, between Club Lisbonense and Oporto Cricket. They contested the
264:, who at the time also had his own football team due to its rapid growth in England, the homeland of the company's workers. Pinto Basto did this because, unlike FC Porto, the Oporto Cricket owned a
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to participate. At the time she was ranked No. 1 in the world and had become a global celebrity. When Portugal required a national association in order to compete in the
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