Frederico Pinto Basto

Frederico Tomás Ferreira Pinto Basto (19 July 1872 – 22 February 1939 ) was a Portuguese football pioneer who is regarded as one of the most important figures in the amateur beginnings of football in Portugal. He is best known for playing in the first football match in mainland Portugal in Cascais in October 1888, and for then playing for a Portuguese team on 22 January 1889, against a team made-up British in Lisbon. Together with his brothers Guilherme and Eduardo, he was the fundamental head behind the foundations of some of the earliest clubs in the city such as Club Lisbonense and Club Internacional de Foot-ball (1902), serving both teams as a forward. He was also the owner of Casa das Gaeiras.

Biography In his youth, together with his brothers Guilherme and Eduardo, his main hobby was playing a sport practically unknown at the time in Portugal called football.

A memorial to the first football match played on mainland Portugal in Cascais in October 1888. The name "Frederico Ferreira Pinto Basto" can be seen in the sixth line. In October 1888, his brother Guilherme organized what is now considered to be the first football match on mainland Portugal in Cascais, which was contested between members of the Sporting Club of Cascais, which was a very elite club, patronized by King Luis and King Carlos and by those who could afford to be close to the Royal Family, including the Pinto Basto family. They reportedly spent the morning of the game removing stones from the field.

On the afternoon of 22 January 1889, a few months after the "rehearsal" in Cascais, his brother Guilherme organizes a more serious and competitive match between the Portuguese noblemen and a group of English workers living in Lisboa. The Portuguese team was made up of the best players from the 1888 game, and Frederico was one of them, thus playing in the first proper football match in Portugal, held where today's Campo Pequeno bullring is located. CIF also briefly functioned as an association, organizing the first leagues in the country.

Later life He married Emilia Garrido Pinheiro, heiress and owner of the so-called Casa das Gaeiras and he set up home in this village in the municipality of Óbidos. He had three children, Maria Amália, Maria Eugénia and Antonio.