Félix Bermudes

Félix Bermudes (4 July 1874 – 5 January 1960) was a Portuguese sports shooter. He competed in the team free rifle event at the 1924 Summer Olympics.[1] He was also a significant author and playwright.[2]

Félix Bermudes
Bermudes (c. 1910s)
Personal information
Born(1874-07-04)4 July 1874
Porto, Portugal
Died5 January 1960(1960-01-05) (aged 85)
Lisbon, Portugal
Sport
SportSports shooting

In 1916, Bermudes became the 10th president of sports club S.L. Benfica; he had a second term between 1945 and 1946.[3] He composed the anthem of Benfica in 1929,[4] called "Avante Benfica", which was censored by the Estado Novo.[5][6]

Bermudes wrote many plays and film scripts, as well as magazine articles. He was one of the founding members of the Society of Portuguese Theater Writers and Composers and was its president from 1928 until his death in 1960. In 1925 he was made an Officer of the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword for Scientific, Literary and Artistic Merit.[2] He was the father of Cesina Bermudes, a prominent obstetrician and opponent of the Estado Novo.[7]

References
  1. "Félix Bermudes". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 27 December 2014. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  2. "Félix. Um nome a vermelho". SAPO. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  3. "Félix Bermudes". S.L. Benfica. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  4. "O Estádio das Amoreiras (1925 - 1940)" (in Portuguese). S.L. Benfica. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  5. Pereira, Luís Miguel (November 2009). Bíblia do Benfica [Benfica Bible] (in Portuguese) (7th ed.). Portugal: Prime Books. p. 191. ISBN 978-989-655-005-9.
  6. Sousa, Hugo Daniel; Curado, Paulo (25 April 2013). "O futebol é mais instrumentalizado hoje do que foi durante o Estado Novo" [Football today is more orchestrated than it was during the Estado Novo] (in Portuguese). Público. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
  7. "Cesina Bermudes". Movimento Democrático de Mulheres. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
Preceded by
José Antunes dos Santos Júnior		 President of Benfica
1916		 Succeeded by
Nuno Freire Themudo
Preceded by
Augusto da Fonseca Júnior		 President of Benfica
1945–1946		 Succeeded by
Manuel da Conceição Afonso
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