Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

As actividades desportivas no Porto de 1900

2001; Volume: 2001; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5628/rpcd.01.02.56

2182-0317

J. V. Ferreira, A. G. Ferreira,

Sport and Mega-Event Impacts

The sporting practices in the city of Porto in the year 1900A book published in the 1940's criticised the people of Porto because they considered themselves as sports people when all they did was watch their own team's games and argue about football.Its author alleged that, in Porto in 1900, people took part in swimming, "jogo do pau", fencing, equestrian events, gymnastics, rowing, cycling, bullfighting and weightlifting, and that young people were neither disinterested in physical activity nor in competitive sport.In order to establish the quality of the abovementioned opinion, we intend, with this article, to highlight the range of sports activities in Porto, at the beginning of the last century.We also intend to reveal the social importance of these activities in the country' s second largest city, based on the impact they had on two newspapers published at that time.