Mário Moniz Pereira
Born
Mário Alberto Freire Moniz Pereira

(1921-02-11)February 11, 1921
Lisbon
DiedJuly 31, 2016(2016-07-31) (aged 95)[1]
Lisbon
NationalityPortuguese
Occupation(s)Athlete,
Coach,
Manager
Known forSporting Clube de Portugal, Athletics

Mário Moniz Pereira (February 11, 1921 – July 31, 2016) was a teacher, sportsman, athlete, coach, songwriter and sports director. A noted athletics coach for both Sporting Clube de Portugal's (Sporting CP) athletics department and the Portuguese Athletics Federation where he worked as a technical director, he was also a vice president of Sporting CP.[2][3][4]

Biography

Moniz Pereira was born and raised in Lisbon. He lived with his family in Rua Gomes Freire (street) where future prime minister and president of Portugal Mário Soares, about three years his junior, was his neighbour, and organized since an early age street athletics events with friends.[5] Moniz Pereira's maternal grandfather was the owner of Central Cinema in Avenida da Liberdade where he used to spend some of his time watching movies including musicals.[6] He studied at Liceu Camões high school and afterwards tried to enroll in the military academy together with his brother, but contrary to his brother he failed to get admission into the military academy due to his lack of proficiency in algebra. He then embraced the INEF (Instituto Nacional de Educação Física, which would later become the Faculdade de Motricidade Humana of the Technical University of Lisbon) as a student in order to have an education in sports and physical education.[7][8][9]

Moniz Pereira became a sports teacher in the same place he had studied, working there for 27 years.[10] Always a sportsman, he practiced handball, basketball, football, roller hockey, table tennis, volleyball and athletics for sports club Sporting Clube de Portugal (Sporting CP), where he became a player of Portugal men's national volleyball team, and later excelled in a long and fruitful career as an athletics coach for Sporting CP's athletics department.[11] Moniz Pereira would become technical director of the Portuguese Athletics Federation and vice president of the entire sports club as well.[12][13][14][15][16] In 1950, he had a brief spell as an athletics coach for the athletics section of the Associação Académica de Coimbra, in Coimbra.[17] After that he returned to Sporting CP's athletics department in Lisbon and became the only coach for Carlos Lopes who would win three World Cross Country Championships as well as the first Olympic gold medal ever for Portugal, competing in the marathon at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.[18][19] In the 1976 Summer Olympics, Carlos Lopes had already won the first Olympic silver medal in the history of Portuguese sports, competing in the men's 10,000 metres.[20] Fernando Mamede, Domingos Castro, Dionísio Castro, Álvaro Dias, Manuel de Oliveira, José Carvalho and Hélder de Jesus, were also some other Sporting CP's athletes coached by Moniz Pereira.[21][22][23][10]

Throughout his life, as a poet and songwriter, he was the author and composer of fados sung by famous Portuguese fadistas (fado singers) like Amália Rodrigues, Lucília do Carmo, João Braga, Maria da Fé, Rodrigo, Carlos do Carmo, Tony de Matos, Fernando Tordo, Paulo de Carvalho and Camané, with songs like Valeu a Pena, Fado Varina, Rosa da Madragoa, Rosa da Noite, Não me Conformo, Leio em teus Olhos, among many others.[24][25][26][27][28]

Mário Moniz Pereira achieved notability in the world of sports across the years, this include:[10]

Milestones

  • 1939 – Joined Sporting CP as a table tennis player.
  • 1945 – Coached Sporting CP's athletics team and taught gymnastics and then volleyball.
  • 1948 – Participated in the first 1948 Summer Olympics in London.
  • 1956 – International Referee at the 1956 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship in Paris.
  • 1976 to 1983 – Director of the National Stadium.
  • 1982 – President of the Portuguese High Competition Support Commission (Comissão de Apoio à Alta Competição).
  • 1995 – vice president of Sporting CP appointed by Pedro Santana Lopes.

Honors

Personal life

Moniz Pereira married Maria Carlota Moniz Pereira, a colleague from INEF, with whom he had five children. She died in 2013.[29]

References

  1. ↑ "Morreu Moniz Pereira, o "Senhor Atletismo"" (in Portuguese). Jornal de Notícias. July 31, 2016. Retrieved July 13, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Moniz Pereira, o homem que fez Portugal acreditar em "coisas impossíveis"" (in Portuguese). Jornal Público. July 31, 2016. Retrieved July 13, 2017.
  3. ↑ "Moniz Pereira: o velho leão do atletismo". www.jornaldenegocios.pt (in European Portuguese). Retrieved October 31, 2023.
  4. ↑ "Moniz Pereira" (in European Portuguese). Retrieved October 31, 2023.
  5. ↑ admin (August 9, 2016). "Moniz Pereira. Do quintal para o mundo". Jornal SOL (in European Portuguese). Retrieved October 31, 2023.
  6. ↑ "Moniz Pereira – Meloteca". www.meloteca.com. Retrieved October 31, 2023.
  7. ↑ "Moniz Pereira: "Eu derrotei os impossíveis"". www.cmjornal.pt (in European Portuguese). Retrieved October 31, 2023.
  8. ↑ "Prof. Mário Moniz Pereira". www.dn.pt (in European Portuguese). August 21, 2008. Retrieved October 31, 2023.
  9. ↑ "Até sempre e obrigado, senhor atletismo". Maisfutebol (in Portuguese). Retrieved October 31, 2023.
  10. 1 2 3 "A vida de Moniz Pereira". www.sporting.pt (in European Portuguese). July 31, 2016. Retrieved November 1, 2023.
  11. ↑ "Governo lamenta morte de Mário Moniz Pereira". www.portugal.gov.pt. Retrieved November 1, 2023.
  12. ↑ "Valeu a Pena: um Retrato de Mário Moniz Pereira" (in European Portuguese). Retrieved October 31, 2023.
  13. ↑ "Mário Moniz Pereira – Parte I" (in European Portuguese). Retrieved October 31, 2023.
  14. ↑ "Mário Moniz Pereira – Parte II" (in European Portuguese). Retrieved October 31, 2023.
  15. ↑ "Mário Moniz Pereira – Parte III" (in European Portuguese). Retrieved October 31, 2023.
  16. ↑ "Entrevista a Mário Moniz Pereira" (in European Portuguese). Retrieved October 31, 2023.
  17. ↑ "Associação Académica de Coimbra | A correr há mais de cem anos!". Revista Atletismo (in European Portuguese). February 1, 2017. Retrieved November 8, 2023.
  18. ↑ "Carlos Lopes Was The First Portuguese Athlete To Earn An Olympic Gold Medal". FEED. Jerónimo Martins SGPS, SA. June 2016. Retrieved January 23, 2018.
  19. ↑ "Carlos Lopes campeão olímpico em 1984" (in Portuguese). Diário de Noticias. August 23, 2016. Retrieved July 13, 2017.
  20. ↑ "Visão | Há 40 anos: a medalha olímpica que mudou Portugal". Visão (in European Portuguese). July 26, 2016. Retrieved October 31, 2023.
  21. ↑ "Mário Moniz Pereira A fábrica de campeões (quinto dos 50 perfis que definem 50 anos de história)". Expresso (in Portuguese). February 19, 2023. Retrieved October 31, 2023.
  22. ↑ Pimentel, Tiago (July 31, 2016). "Moniz Pereira (1921-2016), o homem que fez Portugal acreditar em "coisas impossíveis"". PÚBLICO (in Portuguese). Retrieved October 31, 2023.
  23. ↑ "Caras | Morreu Moniz Pereira, 'o Senhor Atletismo'". Caras (in European Portuguese). July 31, 2016. Retrieved October 31, 2023.
  24. ↑ "Mário Moniz Pereira". Museu do Fado. Retrieved October 31, 2023.
  25. ↑ Portugal, Rádio e Televisão de. "Valeu a Pena - Um Retrato de Mário Moniz Pereira - Memórias do Século XX - Documentários - RTP". www.rtp.pt. Retrieved October 31, 2023.
  26. ↑ "Morreu Moniz Pereira, o ″senhor atletismo″". www.dn.pt (in European Portuguese). July 31, 2016. Retrieved October 31, 2023.
  27. ↑ ""Tive muitos desgostos, como toda a gente, mas acho que a vida compensa tudo"". Jornal Expresso (in European Portuguese). Retrieved October 31, 2023.
  28. ↑ "Mário Moniz Pereira (1921 -2016)". Antena 1 - RTP (in European Portuguese). March 11, 2022. Retrieved October 31, 2023.
  29. ↑ "Maria Carlota Moniz Pereira". www.sporting.pt (in European Portuguese). March 30, 2013. Retrieved October 31, 2023.
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