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Soares played 140 games in his club career, all with FC Belenenses. In the 1929/30 Lisbon
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Pepe's funeral was an event of mourning on an almost-national scale. Thirty thousand people attended to pay their respects to the young star, whose loss shook the
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On 23 October 1931, Pepe collapsed at work – he worked as a lathe operator, in a time when playing football in
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